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Double exposure on the northern coast of the São Paulo State, Brazil [PDF]
, 2010 This paper examines how double exposure to both socio-economic and environmental stressors and the interaction between the two affect the population of the Northern coast of the São Paulo State, Brazil based on the conceptual and analytical framework ...
Martins, Rafael D'Almeida
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Socio-economic and Agricultural Vulnerability Across Districts of Karnataka [PDF]
, 2016 Vulnerability assessments can play a vital role in the design of appropriate adaptation and mitigation policies targeted towards climate change and its impacts on ecosystems, and those who depend upon these resources for their livelihoods and well-being.
Raju, K V, Deshpande, R S, Satyasiba, B
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Hydrology, 2023 Coastal areas are dynamic and complex systems exposed to waves, high tides, and storm surges. Often, these areas are densely populated and have essential socio-economic values for the region and country.
Zaviša Šimac +2 more
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Assessment of flood risk in a coastal city considering multiple socio-economic vulnerability scenarios [PDF]
Proceedings of the International Association of Hydrological SciencesThe Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change stresses the importance of vulnerability and exposure along with hazard in defining flood risk. Therefore, a novel approach for flood risk quantification is proposed that evaluates the impact of various ...
M. Ghosh +4 more
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Quantifying Air Pollution Vulnerability and its Distributional Consequences
Ecology, Economy and Society – The INSEE Journal, 2019 This paper estimates Vulnerability Index of air pollution in Delhi taking into account exposure, susceptibility and coping capacity of households. A general health production function model and a vulnerability assessment framework are used for this ...
Shivani Gupta +2 more
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GIScience & Remote Sensing, 2021 The Mount Elgon ecosystem (MEE), an important hydrological and socio-economic area in East Africa, has exhibited significant landscape changes. These are driven by both natural factors and human activities.
Dan Wanyama +2 more
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Natural Hazards / Multi-vulnerability analysis for flash flood risk management [PDF]
, 2016 Vulnerability assessment implies a quantitative evaluation of the individual vulnerability components such as elements at risk, their physical exposure and social characteristics.
Fuchs, Sven +4 more
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Territoire en Mouvement, 2007 Much coastal and marine pollution by oil spills have been registered for the last thirty years. Literature review shows many studies which goal is to assess and to map such coastal events. Coastal vulnerability assessment is a necessity to anticipate oil
Paul Fattal, Marc Robin, Patrick Pottier
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Vulnerable Employment is a Socio-Economic Challenge in Indian Perspective [PDF]
SocioEconomic Challenges, 2018 This paper summarizes the arguments and counterarguments within the scientific discussion on the issue of vulnerable employment prevailing in Asia with special emphasis on India. The main purpose of the research is to explore the infusion and extent of vulnerability in the workers domain and how in the Indian perspective it poses a socio-economic ...
Gupta, A.A., Guha, M.
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Early warning of vulnerable counties in a pandemic using socio-economic variables
Economics & Human Biology, 2021 In the U.S. in early 2020, heterogenous and incomplete county-scale data on COVID-19 hindered effective interventions in the pandemic. While numbers of deaths can be used to estimate actual number of infections after a time lag, counties with low death counts early on have considerable uncertainty about true numbers of cases in the future. Here we show
Ruck, Damian J. +2 more
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