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Social vulnerability score: a scalable index for representing social vulnerability in virtual community resilience testbeds
Incorporating social systems and phenomena into virtual community resilience testbeds is uncommon but becoming increasingly important. Social...
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Social and seismic structural vulnerability in Zihuatanejo, Guerrero, Mexico
The spatial distribution of the social and seismic structural vulnerabilities in Zihuatanejo (ZIH), Guerrero, Mexico, was estimated. Social...
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An Index-Based Approach to Assess Social Vulnerability for Hamburg, Germany
In this study, we set out to develop a new social vulnerability index (SVI). In doing so, we suggest some conceptual improvements that can be made to...
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Multiscale analysis of coastal social vulnerability to extreme events in Brazil
Issues related to prevention and mitigation of extreme events’ impacts, intensified by climate changes, have been receiving progressive attention...
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A systematic sco** review of the Social Vulnerability Index as applied to natural hazards
Social vulnerability approaches seek to identify social, economic, and political drivers that exacerbate environmental risks, and inform adaptation...
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The geography of social vulnerability and wildfire occurrence (1984–2018) in the conterminous USA
Wildfire is increasing in frequency, extent, and severity in many parts of the USA. Considering the unequal burden of natural hazards on socially...
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Social vulnerability in Chile: challenges for multi-scale analysis and disaster risk reduction
Socio-natural disasters can have profound consequences for countries exposed to natural hazards. Consequently, Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR)...
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Spatial and temporal changes in social vulnerability to natural hazards: a case study for China counties
Enhancing disaster risk governance is crucial for improving the ability to cope with and adapt to the impacts of climate change. China experiences a...
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Social vulnerability to environmental disasters in the Paraopeba River Basin, Minas Gerais, Brazil
The increase in the number of environmental disasters in recent years has prompted a reorientation of research and programs. While significant...
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The Social Vulnerability Index: A Literature Review
This chapter provides a non-exhaustive review of the literature on the Social Vulnerability Index in order to share with Disaster Studies scholars...
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A Novel Approach to Measuring Spatiotemporal Changes in Social Vulnerability at the Local Level in Portugal
Social vulnerability, as one of the risk components, partially explains the magnitude of the impacts observed after a disaster. In this study, a...
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Locked into a permanent position of vulnerability? Farmers’ trust and social capital with the government from Critical Disaster Studies perspectives
In disaster scholarship, there is limited understanding about how vulnerability is socially constructed by a convergence of varying social structural...
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Landslide susceptibility, social vulnerability, and risk assessment in Kumaun Himalaya, Uttarakhand, India
Landslide susceptibility and vulnerability assessment are essential for landslide risk reduction in hilly landscapes like Indian Himalayas. The...
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Social Vulnerability and Geohazards: Review and Implications
Vulnerability assessment associated with natural hazards is a complex process that needs to account for multiple dimensions of vulnerability,...
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Analyzing vulnerability of communities to flood using composite vulnerability index: evidence from Bhagirathi Sub-basin, India
Flood is always a source of social lamentation, huge infrastructural losses and disruption to economic activities in Bhagirathi Sub-basin in India....
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Spatial Industrial Accident Exposure and Social Vulnerability Assessment of Hazardous Material Sites, Chemical Parks, and Nuclear Power Plants in Germany
Industrial accidents have shown that many people can be affected, such as in Seveso, Italy, in 1976. Industrial accidents in nuclear power plants...
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Multicriteria seismic hazard and social vulnerability assessment in the Puerto Vallarta metropolitan area, Mexico: toward a comprehensive seismic risk analysis
Destructive effects of an earthquake are enhanced when the population is unprepared. The experiences from the past highlighted the importance of...
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A quantitative approach to human-thermal vulnerability
Vulnerability refers to the quality or state of being exposed to physical or emotional conditions or at risk of adversely affecting human life and...
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Changes in social vulnerability to flooding: a quasi-experimental analysis
In this study we estimate how flooded areas evolve on measures of social vulnerability over both the long and short term in Calgary, Canada. The...
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Identifying factors contributing to social vulnerability through a deliberative Q-Sort process: an application to heat vulnerability in Taiwan
Extreme heat events are gaining ever more policy and societal attention under a warming climate. Although a breadth of expertises are required to...
