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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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The Production of Unequal Vulnerability to Flood Hazards in Metro Vancouver, Canada

Greg Oulahen
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a co-authorship statement and acknowledgements list for the authors of this paper. Table of Table of contents: http://www.co-authors.org.
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Urban household water resilience and source selection in Nepal pre- and post-disaster

TL;DR: A detailed study on MWSU is necessary for strengthening water security and enhancing household water resilience to natural disasters which is defined as the ability of a household water system that is exposed to a disaster to resist, accommodate, and recover efficiently in a short time as mentioned in this paper.
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Bangladesh's vulnerability to cyclonic coastal flooding

TL;DR: In this article, a new metric, called socio-spatial vulnerability index (SSVI), is defined as function of both the probability of the cyclonic flood hazard and the sensitivity of delta inhabitants.
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Research on fine Spatial Quantitative Model about vulnerability of hazard-affected bodies

TL;DR: In this article, the authors presented a refined spatial quantification model of regional vulnerability which combines refined spatial geographic data and land-use type data, and a quantitative study on regional vulnerability was carried out by defining fine spatial grid as the basic evaluation unit based on GIS.
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The impact of tropical cyclone Haiyan in the Philippines : Contribution of spatial planing to enhance adaptation in the city of Tacloban

TL;DR: Tese de doutoramento, Alteracoes climaticas e Politicas de Desenvolvimento Sustentavel (Ciencias do Ambiente), Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Cienciales, 2018 as discussed by the authors
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