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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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Do Social-Economy Vulnerability Index and Poverty Index Have Correlation? Study in Bengawan Solo Watershed

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors tried to explain the level of social vulnerability among the communities in upper Bengawan Solo watershed, and the results showed highest SoVI total score (the most vulnerability) is Sragen Regency, followed by Wonogiri and Sukoharjo, and lowest is Karanganyar.
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Towards a Comparative Index of Seaport Climate Vulnerability: Developing Indicators from Open-data

TL;DR: In this paper, a set of candidate indicators of seaport climate and extreme-weather vulnerability from open-data sources for 23 major seaports of the United States' North Atlantic region were evaluated by experts via a mind-mapping exercise.
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Vulnerabilidad socioeconómica, cambio climático e incremento del nivel del mar en Tuxpan, Veracruz

TL;DR: In this article, a multidisciplinary methodology consisted of locating, territorially quantifying the vulnerable groups that are currently within the danger zone and the second consisted of qualifying, through fieldwork, the specificities of the same.

Healthcare Facility Location: A Breast Cancer Alliance Case Study

TL;DR: The analysis suggests that Los Angeles, CA is the best option given the criteria used and several factors that BCA and its Board of Directors should take into consideration before making a decision to relocate to a new city are suggested.
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