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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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Flood risk assessment using multi-criteria analysis: a case study from Kopili River Basin, Assam, India
TL;DR: In this article, a multi-criteria analysis (MCA) approach was used to describe the effective utilization of geospatial techniques for disaster risk reduction at village level in Kopili River Basin (KRB) of Assam State, India.
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Community Capitals as Community Resilience to Climate Change: Conceptual Connections.
TL;DR: It is argued that overall resilience of a place-based community is located at the intersection of the community’s resilience dimensions, community capitals, and the level of climate disruptions.
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What is in an index? Construction method, data metric, and weighting scheme determine the outcome of composite social vulnerability indices in New York City.
Diana Reckien,Diana Reckien +1 more
TL;DR: This study investigates the outcome of the variable addition—both with and without weighting of single vulnerability factors—and the variable reduction approach/model on social vulnerability indices calculated for New York City and reveals remarkable differences between indices.
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Mapping cultural vulnerability in volcanic regions : the practical application of social volcanology at Mt Merapi, Indonesia
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Disaster risk and vulnerability in Pakistan at a district level
Lubna Rafiq,Thomas Blaschke +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, an assessment has been undertaken of hazards that were selected on the basis of their frequency and severity, and a combination of these factors was then used to create an integrated total risk assessment map that addresses the socio-economic, environmental and physical dimensions of vulnerability for the districts of Pakistan.