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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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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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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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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The vulnerability of rules in complex work environments: dynamism and uncertainty pose problems for cognition [PDF]
, 2015 Many complex work environments rely heavily on cognitive operators using rules. Operators sometimes fail to implement rules, with catastrophic human, social and economic costs. Rule-based error is widely reported, yet the mechanisms of rule vulnerability
Clewley, Richard, Stupple, Edward J. N.
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Construction of an Integrated Social Vulnerability Index to Identify Spatial Variability of Exposure to Seismic Hazard in Pahang, Malaysia [PDF]
, 2020 Devastating effects of natural disasters dynamically depends on the vulnerability components of a specific area. Therefore, assessing vulnerability is necessary to estimate the earthquake risk.
Daud, Mohd Effendi +2 more
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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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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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Prevalence and Trajectory of Household Material Hardship Among Children With Advanced Cancer
Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background/Objectives Families of children with advanced cancer living in poverty experience inferior outcomes including poor parent mental health and worse child quality of life. Household material hardship (HMH: food, housing, transportation, and/or utility insecurity) is a modifiable poverty exposure—and potential intervention target—that ...
Sarah Wright +13 more
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Redai dili, 2023 The Pearl River Delta urban agglomeration is located in the sensitive zone of the Pearl River Delta estuary. Here, natural conditions are complicated, human activities are strong and natural disasters such as typhoons, floods, landslides, debris flow ...
Wang Jun +6 more
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