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Social vulnerability in Colombia

International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 2020
Abstract In the last decade, with the increment of the occurrence of extreme meteorological events in Colombia, the disaster management field has grown aided by political intervention and investment. However, the country currently lacks a comprehensive integrated place-based assessment of social vulnerability that covers the entire territory.
Susan L. Cutter, Djimenar J Roncancio, Adelaide Cássia Nardocci   +2 more
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Evaluating social vulnerability indicators: criteria and their application to the Social Vulnerability Index

Natural Hazards, 2020
As a concept, social vulnerability describes combinations of social, cultural, economic, political, and institutional processes that shape socioeconomic differentials in the experience of and recovery from hazards. Quantitative measures of social vulnerability are widely used in research and practice.
Seth E. Spielman, Joseph Tuccillo, David C. Folch, Amy Schweikert, Rebecca Davies, Nathan Wood, Eric Tate   +6 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: 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.
Lori Feild Schwarz, John T. Cooper, Jaimie Hicks Masterson, Walter Gillis Peacock, Himanshu Grover, Shannon Van Zandt   +5 more
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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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Social influence and vulnerability

Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2008
AbstractRedish et al. outline 10 vulnerabilities in the decision-making system that increase the risks of addiction. In this commentary I examine the potential role of social influence in exploiting at least one of these vulnerabilities, and argue that the needs satisfied by social interaction may play a role in decision-making with regard to substance
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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.
Alice Fothergill, Deborah S.K. Thomas, Brenda D. Phillips, William E. Lovekamp   +3 more
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