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Social Vulnerability to Environmental Hazards

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The article was published on 2010-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 1006 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Social vulnerability & Vulnerability.

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Community Resilience as a Metaphor, Theory, Set of Capacities, and Strategy for Disaster Readiness

TL;DR: To build collective resilience, communities must reduce risk and resource inequities, engage local people in mitigation, create organizational linkages, boost and protect social supports, and plan for not having a plan, which requires flexibility, decision-making skills, and trusted sources of information that function in the face of unknowns.
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A place-based model for understanding community resilience to natural disasters

TL;DR: In this article, the disaster resilience of place (DROP) model is proposed to improve comparative assessments of disaster resilience at the local or community level, and a candidate set of variables for implementing the model are also presented as a first step towards its implementation.
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Disaster Resilience Indicators for Benchmarking Baseline Conditions

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a methodology and a set of indicators for measuring baseline characteristics of communities that foster resilience by establishing baseline conditions, it becomes possible to monitor changes in resilience over time in particular places and to compare one place to another.
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A Social Vulnerability Index for Disaster Management

TL;DR: In this article, the development of a social vulnerability index (SVI) from 15 census variables at the census tract level for use in emergency management is described, and the potential value of the SVI by exploring the impact of Hurricane Katrina on local populations.
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Framing vulnerability, risk and societal responses: the MOVE framework

TL;DR: The framework presented enhances the discussion on how to frame and link vulnerability, disaster risk, risk management and adaptation concepts and shows key linkages between the different concepts used within the disaster risk management (DRM) and climate change adaptation research.
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TL;DR: The combination of interviews and demographic analyses in this study provides an assessment technique that can help watershed planners understand the limits of their own conceptualization of social vulnerability and acknowledge the importance of place-based vulnerabilities that may otherwise be obscured.
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Connecting the Dots: Linking Environmental Justice Indicators to Daily Dose Model Estimates.

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the relationship between climate impacts on livelihoods and corresponding migratory patterns and found that migration can serve as an adaptive strategy if local livelihoods are threatened.
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Superstorm Sandy and voter vulnerability in the 2012 US Presidential Election: a case study of New Jersey and Connecticut

TL;DR: In this paper, an unprecedented meteorological event that devastated the Caribbean and the Northeastern Coast of the USA in October 2012, was described as Superstorm Sandy, and many research efforts will focus on the atmosph...
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