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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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Enhancing resilience to coastal flooding from severe storms in the USA: International lessons
TL;DR: A systematic review of the peer-reviewed and grey literature related to resilience of communities to coastal flooding was undertaken in both countries as mentioned in this paper, where the trust between national and local authorities, community leaders and civil society is high.
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Everyday crises: Marginal society livelihood vulnerability and adaptability to hazards
Kuan Hui Lin,Chang Yi Chang +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the relationship between poverty and vulnerability is discussed and how vulnerability can be integrated into the livelihood framework for poverty alleviation and vulnerability in the context of vulnerability assessment and vulnerability assessment.
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Assessing urban adaptive capacity to climate change.
Dahyann Araya-Muñoz,Dahyann Araya-Muñoz,Marc J. Metzger,Neil Stuart,A. Meriwether W. Wilson,Luis J. Álvarez +5 more
TL;DR: Identifying municipalities where adaptive capacity is weak and identify which components of adaptive capacity need strengthening can stimulate dialogue amongst policymakers and stakeholders regarding how to manage urban areas and how to prioritise resources for urban development in ways that can also improve adaptive capacity and thus reduce vulnerability to climate change.
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Retooling CalEnviroScreen: cumulative pollution burden and race-based environmental health vulnerabilities in California.
TL;DR: An adjusted measure of cumulative pollution burden from the CalEnviroScreen 2.0 data is developed that facilitates multivariate analyses of the effect of neighborhood racial composition on cumulative pollutionurden, net of other indicators of population vulnerability, traffic density, industrial zoning, and local and regional clustering of pollution burden.
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Enhancing seismic risk mitigation decisions: a motivational approach
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated how to enhance building owners' earthquake hazard preparedness decisions by adopting a motivational approach in order to reduce their vulnerability to earthquake risks, and they adopted a multiple case studies approach and interviews conducted with the various stakeholders involved in seismic adjustments decisions.