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Socio‐economic Restructuring and Vulnerability to Environmental Hazards in Bulgaria
Disasters, 1994The restructuring of Bulgaria's social, economic and political system includes a change in the way it handles disaster preparation and response. During the Cold War, the entire country drilled regularly in civil defense, which was under the control of the army.
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Increased Socio-economic Vulnerability in the Floodplains of Brahmaputra Basin, India
2021<p>Floods are a recurrent natural phenomenon in the Brahmaputra basin, India&#8217;s one of the major river basin. The government employed flood mitigation strategies that have mainly been focused on structural measures that involve the construction of dams, embankments, dykes, and anti-erosion structures.
Sukrati Gautam +2 more
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Assessing socio-economic vulnerability aiming for sustainable development in Serbia
International Journal of Sustainable Development & World Ecology, 2021The most cited definition of sustainable development was created more than three decades ago, by the Brundtland Commission. The problem that was defined then is equally present today.
Stefana Matović +1 more
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Framework for Systemic Socio-economic Vulnerability and Loss Assessment
2014A unified approach for modeling shelter needs and health impacts caused by earthquake damage which integrates social vulnerability into the physical systems modeling approaches has been developed. The shelter needs and health impact models discussed here bring together the state-of-the-art casualty and displaced population estimation models into a ...
Khazai, Bijan +4 more
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Socio-economic determinants of female vulnerable employment in China
African Journal of Reproductive HealthThis analysis investigated the socio-economic factors that affect female vulnerable employment in China, utilizing graphical & correlation analysis in World Development Indicators, covering the time span of 1990 to 2020. Analysing the results, the trend of decline in female vulnerable employment remained consistent during the time span, coupled ...
Xiong, Tianqi, Wang, Dan
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Methodological approach to assess the socio-economic vulnerability to wildfires in Spain
Forest Ecology and Management, 2013Abstract The potential impacts of fire are spatially-dependent, according to the ecosystems, people and properties at risk. This study aimed to develop a methodology for the assessment of the socio-economic vulnerability to fire using Geographic Information Systems.
María Victoria Román +2 more
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Leveraging Earth Observation to Assess Socio-economic Vulnerability
Assessing socio-economic vulnerability remains a key challenge in climate risk analysis, as vulnerability is traditionally grounded in social science concepts that are difficult to quantify spatially and consistently. This research explores how Earth observation (EO) data can contribute to assessing socio-economic vulnerability by identifying EO ...Nicole van Maanen +2 more
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Exacerbated vulnerability of coupled socio-economic risk in complex networks
EPL (Europhysics Letters), 2016The study of risk contagion in economic networks has most often focused on the financial liquidities of institutions and assets. In practice the agents in a network affect each other through social contagion, i.e. , through herd behavior and the tendency to follow leaders.
Xin Zhang +4 more
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The Bangladesh garment industry : socio-economic vulnerability and global integration
2021This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author. Researchers can access this thesis by asking their local university, institution or public library to make a request on their behalf. Monash staff and postgraduate students can use the link in the References field.
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The COVID-19 pandemic not only exposed existing inequalities and compounded them, but it also revealed new forms of inequalities and vulnerabilities. It also widened the gaps between the Global North and South, inter alia in terms of access to healthcare, medicine and vaccines. In addition, it laid bare socio-economic fault lines.
Andrea Broderick, Jennifer Sellin
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Andrea Broderick, Jennifer Sellin
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