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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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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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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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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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Climate Change, Vulnerability, and Social Conflicts in the Andes [PDF]
, 2013 Latin American ...
Altamirano, Teófilo
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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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Conflict and social vulnerability to climate change: Lessons from Gaza [PDF]
, 2011 In societies marred by conflict, the propensity of populations to be harmed by climate hazards is likely to be increased by their exposure to violence and other coercive practices.
el Sheikh, Rebhy +2 more
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Online Child Sex Solicitation: Exploring the Feasibility of a Research 'Sting' [PDF]
, 2007 A small scale test of the integrity of Internet Web 2.0 social network sites was undertaken over several weeks in 2007. The fictional identities of four female underage children where posted on three network sites and later introduced to relay chat ...
Broadhurst, Roderic, Jayawardena, Kasun
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Localism and energy: Negotiating approaches to embedding resilience in energy systems [PDF]
, 2010 Tensions are evident in energy policy objectives between centralised top-down interconnected energy systems and localised distributed approaches. Examination of these tensions indicates that a localised approach can address a systemic problem of ...
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