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Protecting the Socially Vulnerable:

This contribution presents three case studies that examine how religious leaders in the Theban region tried to protect, or received requests to intervene for the sake of, socially vulnerable individuals in the years 600–630 on the basis of their - mostly Coptic - documents. For the monk-bishops Abraham of Hermonthis (ca.
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Social Protection and Vulnerability

2020
Abstract This chapter surveys the interlocking ensemble of public policy choices made in Australia around the beginning of the twentieth century, tracing the impact they have had over time. Policies of tariff protectionism, wage arbitration, racial exclusion, and social welfare were embedded in institutions.
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Neoliberalism and vulnerability in social housing

Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie, 2023
Eryn, Leigh, Katie, MacDonald
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Social and environmental vulnerabilities

2015
Madagascar has relatively high poverty levels, with 52 per cent of the urban population living below the poverty line (Table 4.5). In Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 31.4 per cent of the population was unemployed in 2008. 41 In Malawi, around 24 per cent of Blantyre’s population live in poverty.
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Social Vulnerability to Disasters

2013
Framing Social Vulnerability Understanding Social Vulnerability: Maureen Fordham, William E. Lovekamp, Deborah S.K. Thomas, and Brenda D. Phillips Theoretical Framing of Worldviews, Values, and Structural Dimensions of Disasters: Jean Scandlyn, Deborah S.K.
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The Social Vulnerability of Women

Problems of Economic Transition, 2001
In the course of reform, the opportunities to apply the labor abilities of the population have nominally increased, but they have not been realized in practice for a number of reasons. The social heterogeneity of the labor force is quite great, and, in extreme manifestations, it will appear as social vulnerability (lack of protections).
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Heat vulnerability caused by physical and social conditions in a mountainous megacity of Chongqing, China

Sustainable Cities and Society, 2022
Bao-Jie He, Guifeng Han
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Social Vulnerability

2023
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Mapping social vulnerability to floods. A comprehensive framework using a vulnerability index approach and PCA analysis

Ecological Indicators, 2023
Calin Baciu, Camelia Botezan, Horatiu Stefanie   +2 more
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Social Vulnerability in Europe

2010
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