Recently environmental hazards are occurring very frequently over the globe and a great concern for the society owing to its high rate of vulnerability. Measuring vulnerability to environmental hazards poses an immense challenge for disaster risk relief efforts in the world. For the effective ...
Social Vulnerability to Environmental Hazards* Objective. County‐level socioeconomic and demographic data were used to construct an index of social vulnerability to environmental hazards, called the So... SL Cutter,BJ Boruff,WL Shirley - 《Social Science Quarterly》 被引量: 3760发表: 2002年 The ...
摘要: Objective. County-level socioeconomic and demographic data were used to construct an index of social vulnerability to environmental hazards, called the Social Vulnerability Index (SoVI) for the United States based on 1990 data.DOI: 10.1111/1540-6237.8402002 年份: 2003 ...
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The economic, social heritage, the environmental elements can all become factors of vulnerability. In this paper the urban areas vulnerable towaterborne hazards, especially floods were mentioned. The means to reduce urban vulnerability were analyzed, highlighting the measures taken by the local ...
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Assessment of Vulnerability to Natural Hazards covers the vulnerability of human and environmental systems to climate change and eight natural hazards: earthquakes, floods, landslides, avalanches, forest fires, drought, coastal erosion, and heat waves. This book is an important contribution to the field...
Current threshold-dominated methodologies of vulnerability analysis do not give sufficient emphasis to the processes that shape the environment and define the behaviour of environmental systems. While there has been widespread recognition for developing comprehensive approaches to assessing vulnerability, there ...
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Climate hazard is just one component of the vulnerability for the socio-ecological system, where people can anticipate, cope with, and resist the adverse impacts of climate13,14. However, external political pressures may impede the ability of people to cope with climate hazards and adapt to clima...