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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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Impact of Hurricane Harvey on the Growth of Low Income, Ethnic Minority Adolescents.

TL;DR: The decrease in zBMI among highly impacted students warrants further monitoring, and perceived stress, immediately following the hurricane, impacted student growth months later.
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Locating People Spatially: 2006, 2010, 2100 and 2:36pm on Friday

TL;DR: The National Exposure Information System (NEXIS) is a major national project being under-taken by Geoscience Australia (GA). NEXIS collects, collates, manages and provides the information required to assess multi-hazard impacts as mentioned in this paper.
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Gender Differentials in Perceiving Climate Change Impacts in the Kaligandaki Basin, Nepal

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored gender differentials in impact-perception in the Kaligandaki river valley in central Nepal using primary data collected from 360 households, 75 Key Informants and 24 Focus Groups Discussion as well as through construction of nine Historical Timeline Calendars from three clusters -Meghauli (lower basin), Lumle (middlepart) and Upper-Mustang (upper-basin).
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Understanding Psycho-Sociological Vulnerability of ISIS Patronizers in Twitter

TL;DR: Experimental results suggest that psycho-sociological aspects indeed act as foundation to discover and differentiate between prominent and unobtrusive users in Twitter.
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