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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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Exposure to flood hazards in Miami and Houston: are Hispanic immigrants at greater risk than other social groups?
TL;DR: Divergent results suggest that human-flood hazard relationships have been structured differently between the two MSAs, possibly due to the contrasting role that water-based amenities have played in urbanization within the two study areas.
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Planing to be Prepared: An Empirical Examination of the Role of Voluntary Organizations in County Government Emergency Planning
Jeffrey L. Brudney,Beth Gazley +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors emphasized the important role played by a sometimes extensive network of decentralized, voluntary organizations in emergency response, and emphasized the importance of volunteerism in disaster response.
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Building vulnerability to hydro-geomorphic hazards: Estimating damage probability from qualitative vulnerability assessment using logistic regression
Susanne Ettinger,Loïc Mounaud,Christina Magill,Anne Françoise Yao-Lafourcade,Jean-Claude Thouret,Vern Manville,Caterina Negulescu,Giulio Zuccaro,Daniela De Gregorio,Stefano Nardone,Juan Alexis Luque Uchuchoque,Anita Arguedas,Luisa Macedo,Nélida Victoria Manrique Llerena +13 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a statistical methodology is developed that enables the estimation of damage probability for buildings by considering the example of a flash flood event in February 2013, where 124.5mm of rain fell within 3h (monthly mean: 29.3mm) triggering a flood that inundated at least 0.4 km 2 of urban settlements along the channel, affecting more than 280 buildings, 23 of a total of 53 bridges (pedestrian, vehicle and railway), and leading to the partial collapse of sections of the main road, paralyzing central parts of the city for
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Community variations in population exposure to near-field tsunami hazards as a function of pedestrian travel time to safety
TL;DR: In this paper, anisotropic path distance modeling is conducted to estimate travel times to safety, and results are merged with various population data, including residents, employees, public venues, and dependent care facilities.
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Mapping socio-environmentally vulnerable populations access and exposure to ecosystem services at the U.S.–Mexico borderlands
Laura M. Norman,Miguel L. Villarreal,Francisco Lara-Valencia,Yongping Yuan,Wenming Nie,Sylvia Wilson,Gladys Amaya,Rachel Sleeter +7 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a Modified Socio-Environmental Vulnerability Index (M-SEVI) was developed to measure the environmental vulnerability of marginalized populations living in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands.