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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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Toward a Resilience Model for the Hospitality & Tourism Industry
TL;DR: The authors examined the impact of natural disasters on hospitality industry jobs and attempted to model job resilience after the industry experiences a disaster using systems theory and a capital stock approach, and their prior research supports their hypothesis: changes in hospitality industry job as a result of experiencing a natural disaster are a function of community resilience.
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Vulnérabilité, risques et environnement : l’itinéraire chaotique d’un paradigme sociologique contemporain
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explicite l'itineraire du paradigme de la vulnerabilite sociale dans l'etude des risques environnementaux a partir d'une revue de ses definitions and usages par les sciences sociales, and du rappel de quelques grandes questions scientifiques pour lesquelles la notion a ete mobilisee en particulier par les sociologues.
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Service Innovation Using Social Robot to Reduce Social Vulnerability among Older People in Residential Care Facilities
TL;DR: In this paper, the main factors of social vulnerability among older people and the improvements in social life after engaging with social robots are explored, and the influence of these factors on each other is examined.
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Coastal vulnerability assessment of the predicted sea level rise in the coastal zone of Krishna–Godavari delta region, Andhra Pradesh, east coast of India
TL;DR: In this paper, a coastal vulnerability index (CVI) for the coastal subregion of Krishna-Godavari delta was calculated by using four geological and three physical parameters characterizing the vulnerability of the study coastal region, including regional slope, coastal elevation, geomorphology, significant wave height, mean tidal range and relative sea level using different conventional and remotely sensed data.
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The Affluence–Vulnerability Interface: Intersecting scales of risk, privilege and disaster
TL;DR: The authors examines vulnerability in the context of affluence and privilege in the 1991 Oakland Hills Firestorm in California, USA to examine long-term lived experiences of the disaster, focusing on the 1990s.