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Ecological Indicators, 2022 There are few studies on the social vulnerability of small towns in landslide disaster areas. The occurrence of geological disasters will directly threaten the local socioeconomic growth, it is particularly important to identify vulnerable areas and ...
Yi Xiao +4 more
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Vulnerability assessment of rural social-ecological system to climate change: a case study of Yunnan Province, China [PDF]
International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management, 2021 Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to quantitatively measure the vulnerability level of the whole rural social-ecological system in Yunnan Province and to analyze the spatial differences of the vulnerability in different regions.
Yueyue He, Changchun Zhou, Tanveer Ahmed
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Social vulnerability, frailty and mortality in elderly people. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2008 BACKGROUND:Social vulnerability is related to the health of elderly people, but its measurement and relationship to frailty are controversial. The aims of the present study were to operationalize social vulnerability according to a deficit accumulation ...
Melissa K Andrew +2 more
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Urban Social Vulnerability Modeling to Earthquake Using Analytic Hierarchy Process and ARC GIS Software (Case Study: Zone1 of Tabriz City) [PDF]
برنامهریزی توسعه شهری و منطقهای, 2017 Natural disasters, specially earthquake has always been a treat for human activities, which resulting damages and losses are being seen specially in developing countries, despite technological progresses in various dimensions.
Mohsen Ahad Nejad +2 more
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Jurnal Pembangunan Wilayah dan Kota, 2021 Coastal innudation which is still happening today in the coastal area of Semarang City has caused the affected area to become socially vulnerable. This study aims to identify the effect of coastal innudation on conditions of social vulnerability in North
Vica Gitya Haryanti, Nany Yuliastuti
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SSM: Population Health, 2016 Whereas falls are frequent and traumatic events for the elderly, their long-term consequences in terms of the social lives of older fallers are understudied.
Stéphanie Pin, Dario Spini
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Social vulnerability in a multi-hazard context: a systematic review
Environmental Research Letters, 2022 The interacting effects of multiple hazards pose a substantial challenge to poverty reduction and national development. Yet, social vulnerability to multiple hazards is a relatively understudied, though growing concern.
Oronde Drakes, Eric Tate
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The social disintegration from a mixed approach of quantitative and qualitative analysis
Revista Nacional de Administración, 2021 This paper aims to analyze, through a quantitative and qualitative approach, social categories related to vulnerability. This reflection is based on the analysis of concepts that are part of the sociology of poverty, exclusion, and social vulnerability ...
Mafalda Gomes, Ana Luisa Martinho
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Trends in social vulnerability to storm surges in Shenzhen, China [PDF]
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 2020 An evaluation of social vulnerability to storm surges is important for any coastal city to provide marine disaster preparedness and mitigation procedures and to formulate post-disaster emergency plans for coastal communities.
H. Yu +10 more
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Social Vulnerability A qualitative research on the reasons behind social vulnerability in Erbil city
Zanco Journal of Humanity Sciences, 2023 The term "social vulnerability" is not frequently used to describe people or communities in Erbil. It is a new term that is common.y used in social sciences for academic purposes.
Muzhda Mohammed Azeez
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