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Social Vulnerability: A Multidimensional Analysis

2010
Social vulnerability can be defined as a life-situation characterized by a multi-dimensional combination of factors of disadvantage and advantage, of inclusion and exclusion. Its distinctive feature is that weak and unstable integration in the main mechanisms of resource distribution in contemporary society places people in a situation of uncertainty ...
RANCI ORTIGOSA, COSTANZO, M. Migliavacca
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Assessing Social Vulnerability

2014
A critical piece, and often the most neglected piece, of resilience to disaster is the identification and mapping of a community’s social vulnerabilities. When disaster strikes, its impact is not just a function of its magnitude and where it strikes.
Jaimie Hicks Masterson, Walter Gillis Peacock, Shannon S. Van Zandt, Himanshu Grover, Lori Feild Schwarz, John T. Cooper   +5 more
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SOCIAL VULNERABILITY AT SCHOOL

Revista Ibero-Americana de Humanidades, Ciências e Educação, 2023
School in modern times is characterized as a social environment in which most students spend most of their time, as it is a space understood as a privileged place for learning, not simply an irrefutable educational theme, as well as values and beliefs, which young people assimilate to confront themselves and live in society, in addition to developing ...
Flávia Francisca Ferreira da Silva, Diogenes José Gusmão Coutinho   +1 more
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Explaining Social Vulnerability

2010
The aim of this final chapter is to identify the main social, economic and institutional factors responsible for social vulnerability. Social vulnerability is considered as a multi-dimensional phenomenon affecting contemporary post-industrial societies of Western Europe as a consequence of the emergence of new social risks in the past two decades.
RANCI ORTIGOSA, COSTANZO, B. Fiore, E. Pavolini   +2 more
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Social vulnerability

Social vulnerability is a topic of concern in many territories of the world. We conducted a systematic review in the international context, contributing to social vulnerability knowledge. This review examined the different approaches from various disciplines that might help understand the use of this concept. It was found that social vulnerability must
Fernández-Cediel, Miryam C., Loots, Gerrit, Villanueva, O’Driscoll   +2 more
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Frailty and Social Vulnerability

2015
Both intrinsic and extrinsic factors contribute to health. Intrinsic factors are familiar topics in health research and include medical conditions, medications, genetics and frailty, while extrinsic factors stem from social and physical environments. This chapter builds on others in this volume, in which a deficit accumulation approach to frailty has ...
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