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Recently, scholars have turned to publicly available data to measure the resources and vulnerability of communities in the face of disasters [1,2]. However, when measuring community resilience to climate change, custom surveys of social capital are often
Timothy Fraser
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Recently, scholars have turned to publicly available data to measure the resources and vulnerability of communities in the face of disasters [1,2]. However, when measuring community resilience to climate change, custom surveys of social capital are often
Timothy Fraser
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Social vulnerability and prenatal diagnosis
Journal of Perinatal MedicineAbstract Objectives There are limited data on how neighborhood-level risk factors affect the likelihood of having prenatal diagnosis. Neighborhood social vulnerability can be quantified and ranked using the social vulnerability index (SVI), a tool that measures the cumulative effect of external ...
Insaf Kouba +6 more
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Explaining Social Vulnerability
2010The 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.
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Assessing Social Vulnerability
2014A 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 +5 more
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Social influence and vulnerability
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2008AbstractRedish 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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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.openaire +3 more sources
Neoliberalism and vulnerability in social housing
Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie, 2023Eryn, Leigh, Katie, MacDonald
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Social Protection and Vulnerability
2020Abstract 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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Social and environmental vulnerabilities
2015Madagascar 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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The Social Vulnerability of Women
Problems of Economic Transition, 2001In 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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