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Vulnerability assessment of rural social-ecological system to climate change: a case study of Yunnan Province, China [PDF]
International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management, 2021 Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to quantitatively measure the vulnerability level of the whole rural social-ecological system in Yunnan Province and to analyze the spatial differences of the vulnerability in different regions.
Yueyue He, Changchun Zhou, Tanveer Ahmed
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Jurnal Pembangunan Wilayah dan Kota, 2021 Coastal innudation which is still happening today in the coastal area of Semarang City has caused the affected area to become socially vulnerable. This study aims to identify the effect of coastal innudation on conditions of social vulnerability in North
Vica Gitya Haryanti, Nany Yuliastuti
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SSM: Population Health, 2016 Whereas falls are frequent and traumatic events for the elderly, their long-term consequences in terms of the social lives of older fallers are understudied.
Stéphanie Pin, Dario Spini
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Social vulnerability in a multi-hazard context: a systematic review
Environmental Research Letters, 2022 The interacting effects of multiple hazards pose a substantial challenge to poverty reduction and national development. Yet, social vulnerability to multiple hazards is a relatively understudied, though growing concern.
Oronde Drakes, Eric Tate
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A social wearable that affords vulnerability
Adjunct Proceedings of the 2019 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2019 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers, 2019 We present 'True Colors': a social wearable prototype designed to augment co-located social interaction of players in a LARP (live action role play). We designed it to enable the emergence of rich social dynamics between wearers and non-wearers. True Colors is Y-shaped, worn around the upper body, and has front and back interfaces to distinguish ...
Ella Dagan +4 more
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Social Vulnerability A qualitative research on the reasons behind social vulnerability in Erbil city
Zanco Journal of Humanity Sciences, 2023 The term "social vulnerability" is not frequently used to describe people or communities in Erbil. It is a new term that is common.y used in social sciences for academic purposes.
Muzhda Mohammed Azeez
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Trends in social vulnerability to storm surges in Shenzhen, China [PDF]
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 2020 An evaluation of social vulnerability to storm surges is important for any coastal city to provide marine disaster preparedness and mitigation procedures and to formulate post-disaster emergency plans for coastal communities.
H. Yu +10 more
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The social disintegration from a mixed approach of quantitative and qualitative analysis
Revista Nacional de Administración, 2021 This paper aims to analyze, through a quantitative and qualitative approach, social categories related to vulnerability. This reflection is based on the analysis of concepts that are part of the sociology of poverty, exclusion, and social vulnerability ...
Mafalda Gomes, Ana Luisa Martinho
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Vulnerability of Social Institutions [PDF]
OECD Economic Policy Papers, 2014 Social institutions face many challenges. The recent economic crisis has provided a stress test as it has left a legacy of high unemployment and high government debt in many countries. It also lowered potential output and thus the revenue base for social protection schemes.
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Infant Mortality in Socially Vulnerable Populations [PDF]
Annual Review of Public Health, 1988 Studies have shown for decades that certain subpopulations of infants, for example, those in poverty and in certain minority groups, are at substantially higher risk for illness and death than the national average. If mothers and infants of these “vulnerable populations” were as healthy as their “nonvulnerable” counterparts, as many as one third ...
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