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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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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.
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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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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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Socio-Economic Vulnerability to Potential Flood in Tamakoshi River in Nepal
Himalayan ReviewTamakoshi, a transboundary river flowing from Tibet, China to Nepal has experienced several disastrous flash floods resulting in the loss of lives, infrastructures, settlements, lands, and other assets. Many households, populations, and public and private properties such as houses, land, roads, bridges, etc.
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Food Security in Socio-Economically Vulnerable Areas : With Special Reference to East Timor
Journal of the City Planning Institute of Japan, 2008Satoh, Naoko, Ishida, Akira
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SOCIO-ECONOMIC VULNERABILITY OF FAMILIES WITH CHILDREN IN MODERN RUSSIA
Demographic drivers of population adaptation to global socio-economic challenges, 2023openaire +1 more source