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Social vulnerability, social-ecological resilience and coastal governance
Global Sustainability, 2022 Non-technical summary Our analysis shows that the framing of social vulnerability is shaped by a narrow definition of resilience, focusing on post-disaster return and recovery responses.
Javad Jozaei +3 more
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Social Vulnerability in Europe [PDF]
, 2010 The second half of the twentieth century will be remembered as an era characterized, in advanced capitalist European countries, by the creation of huge systems of welfare protection. Supported by substantial economic growth and by a relatively peaceful international situation, Western European countries developed economic and institutional mechanisms ...
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Vulnerability in Social Epistemic Networks [PDF]
International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 2020 Social epistemologists should be well-equipped to explain and evaluate the growing vulnerabilities associated with filter bubbles, echo chambers, and group polarization in social media. However, almost all social epistemology has been built for social contexts that involve merely a speaker-hearer dyad.
Sullivan, Emily +6 more
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Social Vulnerability and Touristification of Historic Centers [PDF]
Sustainability, 2019 Historic centers have suffered different processes of neglect, occupation, segregation, gentrification, and touristification as a result of changes in demand and policies. Currently, they are going through a homogenization process motivated by tourist pressure, which is causing the expulsion of the local population; this is a common topic of interest ...
Carmen Mínguez +2 more
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Vulnerability of Social Institutions [PDF]
OECD Economic Policy Papers, 2014 Social institutions face many challenges. The recent economic crisis has provided a stress test as it has left a legacy of high unemployment and high government debt in many countries. It also lowered potential output and thus the revenue base for social protection schemes.
Mauro Pisu +4 more
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Depression and Social Vulnerability to Depression
Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2013 AbstractThis study is based on literature regarding depression as an important issue of the public health. It aimed to identify the role of the social factor (social vulnerability), during the occurrence of the depressive episode. Therefore, 139 patients with light and medium intensity depressive episodes were investigated.
Elpida Bagana
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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 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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Redai dili, 2023 The Pearl River Delta urban agglomeration is located in the sensitive zone of the Pearl River Delta estuary. Here, natural conditions are complicated, human activities are strong and natural disasters such as typhoons, floods, landslides, debris flow ...
Wang Jun +6 more
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