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Socio-economic Vulnerabilities to Natural Disasters and Social Justice
2021Climate change modeling predicts more extremes of hazardous weather conditions such as drought and bushfire through to periods of heavier rainfall and floods. Vulnerability to the impacts of floods has increased as a consequence of urbanization, changes in house design, land use, and climate change.
Gurtner, Yetta, King, David
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Climate risks and socio-economic vulnerability in Tamil Nadu, India
Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 2021Climate risks, emerging threats to humanity, increase the level of disaster in many ways. A comprehensive understanding of climate risks and their impacts is a pre-requisite for developing suitable adaptation strategies toward sustainable development. This paper assessed the socio-economic vulnerability based on sustainable development goals (SDG) in ...
Anushiya Jeganathan +2 more
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Socio-Economic Vulnerability and Neo-Liberalism
South Asia Research, 2009Based on a case study of an export-oriented Bangladeshi garment company, this article shows how hierarchies of vulnerability have developed in the process of global integration of Bangladesh’s garment industry. Situating the problem of economic dependency in a globalised context within a broader political economy discussion of local Bangladeshi ...
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Environmental and socio-economic vulnerability of agricultural sector in Armenia
Science of The Total Environment, 2014Being a mountainous country, Armenia has undergone different kinds of natural disasters, such as droughts, floods, and storms, which have a direct influence on economy and are expected to occur more frequently in terms of climate change, raising the need to estimate economic vulnerability especially in agricultural sector.
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A scenario research of the vulnerability of socio-economic systems
2017 Tenth International Conference Management of Large-Scale System Development (MLSD), 2017New applications of the methodology of scenario research of complex systems are presented. The concept of modeling and the methodology for analyzing the vulnerability of the strategic development of socio-economic systems are proposed. Examples of the analysis of the vulnerability of the strategic development of the Ivanovo region of Russia are ...
V. V. Kul'ba +2 more
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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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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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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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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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Socio-economic data in coastal vulnerability indices: constraints and opportunities
Journal of Coastal Research, 2002ABSTRACT Most previously developed coastal vulnerability/sensitivity indices acknowledge that the addition of socio-economic variables would assist in defining vulnerable areas. This study investigated the incorporation of socio-economic variables into a GIS based coastal vulnerability index for wave-induced erosion in Northern Ireland.
S. McLaughlin, J. McKenna, J.A.G. Cooper
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