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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.read more
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Community Resilience as a Metaphor, Theory, Set of Capacities, and Strategy for Disaster Readiness
Fran H. Norris,Fran H. Norris,Fran H. Norris,Susan P. Stevens,Susan P. Stevens,Susan P. Stevens,Betty Pfefferbaum,Betty Pfefferbaum,Betty Pfefferbaum,Karen Fraser Wyche,Karen Fraser Wyche,Karen Fraser Wyche,Rose L. Pfefferbaum,Rose L. Pfefferbaum,Rose L. Pfefferbaum +14 more
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
Susan L. Cutter,Lindsey Barnes,Melissa Berry,Christopher G. Burton,Elijah Evans,Eric Tate,Jennifer J. Webb +6 more
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
Joern Birkmann,Joern Birkmann,Omar D. Cardona,M. L. Carreño,Alex H. Barbat,Mark Pelling,Mark Pelling,Stefan Schneiderbauer,Stefan Kienberger,Margreth Keiler,David Alexander,Peter Zeil,Torsten Welle +12 more
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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Quantifying Access Disparities in Response Plans.
TL;DR: Data driven methods to quantify vulnerabilities in the context of response plans have been developed and are explored in this article.
An exploratory approach to social impact assessment of public policy decisions: Multiple stakeholders perspectives on the social impact of overfishing in New England groundfisheries in the 1990s
Abstract: This thesis seeks to understand how stakeholders' perspectives and understanding of social impacts influence decision processes. Understanding stakeholders' comprehension of social impacts provides insight as to how they weigh these impacts against others when making decisions. Moreover, the way stakeholders influence, or are influenced by, management decisions provides information on the use and development of methodologies successful in assessing social impacts and communicating the results. Built on this information, the main objective is to explore and develop a Social Impact Assessment (SIA) approach that could capture and integrate multiple stakeholders' perspectives in predicting impacts from ongoing, renewable resource management actions. The research is framed around grounded theory and causal analysis. It applies qualitative and participatory methods to analyze a case study of the overfishing and collapse of the New England groundfish fisheries in the 1990s. To enact a fisheries management plan amendment, Environmental Impact Statements (EIS, which include an SIA) must be submitted. Agencies use SIA guidelines to carry out such assessments but relatively few scientific investigations have looked at the relevance and accuracy of social variables utilized, their relationships to predictions made, and how they are used in policymaking. Lack of evaluation of SIA is thus a major limitation to the advancement of the discipline. Therefore, an exploratory conceptual approach to SIA is developed in this thesis, which includes two components: a detailed list of social impact and social process variables for fisheries management and a model diagram that visually represents causal relationships. The conceptual approach is used to document and analyze the aforementioned case study. The New England groundfish collapse case study exposed the difficulties of balancing management actions intended to achieve biological sustainability with social, economic and cultural forces. Technological advances, favorable economic conditions, the increase in seafood demand, and government encouragement and assistance, encouraged fishermen expand their capacity to fish until industry's infrastructure became overcapitalized and the stocks overfished. Emergency actions were thus enacted in 1994. Two amendments, 5 & 7, to the Northeast Multispecies Fisheries Management Plan were passed in hopes of ameliorating the situation, leaving little time to predict or understand the magnitude of their impacts. This study aims to shed light on the different social impacts experienced as a result of these actions.
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Time and population vulnerability to natural hazards: the pre-Katrina primacy of experience
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