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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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The Concept of Social Vulnerability: A Review from Disasters Perspectives
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the text of social vulnerability due to natural disasters, which is made up of the characteristics of a per son or group and their situation that influence their capa city to anticipate, to cope with, resist and recover from the impact of a natural hazard.
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Measuring Capacity for Resilience among Coastal Counties of the US Northern Gulf of Mexico Region.
TL;DR: This study selects indicators of key theoretical concepts from the social-ecological resilience literature, aggregate them into a resilience-capacity index, and calculates an index score for each of the 52 coastal counties of Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida, to show the spatial distribution of resilience capacities.
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Assessing social vulnerability to drought in South Africa: Policy implication for drought risk reduction.
TL;DR: The result found that an SoVI estimated for O.R. Tambo district was very high with a Likert scale of 5 for cultural values and practices, security or safety, social networks, social dependence, preparedness strategies and psychological stress attributed for the high value of social vulnerability to drought.
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Environmental Health Related Socio-Spatial Inequalities: Identifying “Hotspots” of Environmental Burdens and Social Vulnerability
TL;DR: An index-based approach to assess multiple burdens and benefits in combination with vulnerability factors at detailed intra-urban level is applied to the city of Dortmund, Germany, and large numbers of “hotspots” exist in the northern part of the city compared to the southern part.
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Black feminism and radical planning: New directions for disaster planning research:
TL;DR: After Hurricane Katrina's devastation of the United States’ Gulf Coast, conversations about flooding became focused on the interconnections between so-called “natural” disasters, poverty, gender an... as mentioned in this paper.