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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 Influence of Climate Change on Coastal Erosion Vulnerability in Northeast Brazil
Karoline Angélica Martins,Pedro de Souza Pereira,Rodolfo Silva-Casarín,Antônio Vasconcelos Nogueira Neto +3 more
TL;DR: In this article, an adapted methodology to evaluate coastal erosion vulnerability, which provides a basis for decision-making concerning risk management strategies, is described, and the vulnerability of coastal erosion is evaluated.
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Climate Change Vulnerability of Pakistan Towards Natural Disasters: A Review
Wahid Ullah,Nihei Takaaki +1 more
TL;DR: A review of scientific findings focusing on vulnerability of Pakistan in the context of climate change (CC) is presented in this paper, where the authors highlight vulnerability and exposure of Pakistan towards natural hazards such as floods, droughts and cyclones stating that the country is vulnerable to numerous hazards, both natural and human induced due to a direct consequence of the country's high variability and regional contrast in terms of geology, topography and meteorology.
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Tracing resilience, social dynamics and behavioral change: a review of agent-based flood risk models
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the costliest climate-exacerbated hazard, flooding, and review computational agent-based models that include behavioral change and societal dynamics, and highlight that applying a complex adaptive system perspective to trace the evolution of resilience can lead to a better understanding of transformational adaptation.
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Vulnerability and Resilience in Local Government: Assessing the Strength of Performance Regimes:
Ann O'm. Bowman,Bryan M. Parsons +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the truly extreme events of major proportion that capture the attention of policy makers and the public alike, such as earthquakes or terrorist attacks, and propose a new homeland security policy in the United States following the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
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Lack of association between drought and mental health in a cohort of 45-61 year old rural Australian women.
TL;DR: The impact of drought on the mental health of rural Australian women and those in vulnerable sub‐populations: women who were more isolated, poorer and less educated; and women who had histories of chronic disease or poor mental health are evaluated.