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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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Identification and Use of Indicator Data to Develop Models for Marine-Sourced Risks in Massachusetts Bay
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a list of the most commonly used abbreviations and figures in the literature: ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, TABLES, FIGURES, and FIGURES.
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Flood and extreme weather fatalities in the UK
TL;DR: In this paper, a comprehensive list of flood casualties, as well as deaths from other extreme weather events in the UK, for the 15-year period 2000-2014 is presented.
Hurricane Preparedness And Planning In Coastal Public School Districts
TL;DR: One hundred school districts were surveyed along the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico coasts from North Carolina to Texas as mentioned in this paper, and most had recent experience with a tropical storm or hurricane and had hurricane plans in place.
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Adaptation Strategies to Adverse Effects of Climate Variability on Water and Sanitation Access in Mukuru Kwa Njenga Slum, Nairobi County, Kenya
TL;DR: A research project submitted in Partial Fulfilment for the Award of Master Degree in Environmental Studies (Climate Change and Sustainability) in the School of Environmental Studies of Kenyatta University as mentioned in this paper.
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Mensuração de vulnerabilidade na escala de detalhe para mapeamento de riscos: Uma proposição inicial
Fernando Nogueira,Samia Nascimento Sulaiman,Vitor Vieira Vasconcelos,Rafael Costa e Silva,Beatriz Oliveira de Carvalho +4 more
TL;DR: A reflection on vulnerability as a component of social construction of risk, as well as an intrinsic component of its own causality, is presented, using a model of nested vulnerability levels associated with a gradual increase in the level of detail scale of the geotechnical cartography.