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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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Vulnerabilidad y resiliencia como condiciones de intervención de crisis socio-ecológicas
TL;DR: A partir de la relacion que se establece entre sistemas socio-ecologicos and cambio climatico, the authors analizan las conexiones teoricas entre crisis socioecologica, vulnerabilidad, resiliencia e intervencion contextual.
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Indicator Approach to Assessing Climate Change Vulnerability of Communities in Kenya: A Case Study of Kitui County
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors sought to understand the differentiated vulnerability patterns of communities in Kitui County as well as the existing coping strategies to guide implementation of adaptation assistance and to improve climate change resilience and community livelihoods.
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Contextual vulnerability of the communal forests and population of Totonicapán, Guatemala
TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluated the contextual vulnerability of the municipality's population and communal forests using 5 interviews and 167 household surveys from three communities for 15 socioeconomic indicators and their aggregation into a vulnerability index by Principal Component Analysis.
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Community Exposure to Nighttime Heat in a Desert Urban Setting, El Paso, Texas
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used infrared satellite imagery to evaluate the distribution of nighttime heat and its decadal changes in a large desert metroplex and found that the combination of global warming and urbanization is expected to exacerbate the well-established urban heat island effect.