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Vulnerability and Social Justice [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2019 This Article briefly considers the origins of the term social justice and its evolution beside our understandings of human rights and liberalism, which are two other significant justice categories. After this reflection on the contemporary meaning of social justice, I suggest that vulnerability theory, which seeks to replace the rational man of liberal
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Models of Social Vulnerability to Disasters* [PDF]
RCCS Annual Review, 2012 This paper discusses the bases of theory in the evaluation of social vulnerability to disasters. Vulnerability is shown to be the vital component of risk and the principal element of disaster impacts. Perception is a key process in decision making in disasters. It is affected by culture and symbolism, which are analysed in the context of disaster risk.
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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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Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022 Quantitative analyses of storm surge risk, which are mostly focused on physical vulnerability, have been widely used to help coastal communities mitigate impacts and damage.
Si Wang +8 more
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Assessing the social vulnerability to malaria in Rwanda [PDF]
Malaria Journal, 2015 Since 2004, malaria interventions in Rwanda have resulted in substantial decline of malaria incidence. However, this achievement is fragile as potentials for local malaria transmissions remain. The risk of getting malaria infection is partially explained by social conditions of vulnerable populations.
Bizimana, Jean-Pierre +2 more
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Expanding vulnerability assessment for public lands: The social complement to ecological approaches
Climate Risk Management, 2017 In recent years, federal land management agencies in the United States have been tasked to consider climate change vulnerability and adaptation in their planning.
Shannon M. McNeeley +4 more
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Analysis of Urban Sprawl Effects on Social Vulnerability (Case Study: Qazvin City Districts) [PDF]
توسعه پایدار شهری, 2021 Iran is an earthquake-prone country that many cities have experienced the earthquake. Magnitude of earthquake damage not only depends on physical destructions, but also one of the major dimensions of earthquake hazards is social vulnerability.In this ...
Esfandyar Zebardast, Hossein Ghanooni
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Keeping the time: the impact of external clock-speed manipulation on time-based prospective memory
Journal of CognitionSeveral studies have suggested that time monitoring is important for appropriate time-based prospective memory (TBPM). However, it is still unknown if people actively use internal timing processes to monitor the approaching target time, and whether they ...
Gianvito Laera +5 more
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Methodology for analyzing socio-environmental vulnerability applied to rural settlements [PDF]
Ambiente & SociedadeStudies on vulnerability that include both environmental and social aspects, are important tools to support decision-making in the face of socio-environmental problems.
Francielle Rodrigues de Oliveira +2 more
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Social vulnerability indices: a scoping review
BMC Public Health, 2023 Abstract Background Social vulnerability occurs when the disadvantage conveyed by poor social conditions determines the degree to which one’s life and livelihood are at risk from a particular and identifiable event in health, nature, or society.
Jasmine Cassy Mah +4 more
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