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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.

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Community Resilience as a Metaphor, Theory, Set of Capacities, and Strategy for Disaster Readiness

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

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

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 role of low-cost housing in the path from vulnerability to resilience

TL;DR: In this paper, four different housing strategies used after the 2003 earthquake in Bam, Iran, illustrate the role of housing in the path that can potentially lead communities from a vulnerable state to resilience.
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Assessing socio-economic vulnerability to climate change impacts and environmental hazards in New South Wales and Queensland, Australia.

TL;DR: In this paper, the state of knowledge concerning socio-economic vulnerability to climate change impacts and environmental hazards in New South Wales and Queensland, Australia is assessed using a systematic review and synthesisation of academic, peer-reviewed literature.
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Development and validation of a crisis self‐efficacy index

TL;DR: This paper developed a crisis self-efficacy index to provide a tool for crisis communication researchers and practitioners to understand behavioral aspects of crisis response better, and evaluated public's crisis selfefficacy using this index inform strategic message development to protect the public and minimize crisis damages by identifying the public/s most in need of self−efficacy enhancing interventions.
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City Resilience vs. Resilient City: Terminological Intricacies and Concept Inaccuracies

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explain the concept of resilience, its reference to the city and clear up ambiguities of the terminology related to the two lines of research on resilience in relation to the relevant literature.
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