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A flood vulnerability index for coastal cities and its use in assessing climate change impacts [PDF]

, 2012
Worldwide, there is a need to enhance our understanding of vulnerability and to develop methodologies and tools to assess vulnerability. One of the most important goals of assessing coastal flood vulnerability, in particular, is to create a readily ...
Balica, SF, van der Meulen, F, Wright, NG   +2 more
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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., Bentley, R. Alexander, Borycz, Joshua   +2 more
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Conceptualising quality early childhood education: Learning from young children in Brazil and South Africa through creative and play‐based methods

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract Early childhood has increasingly been acknowledged as a vital time for all children. Inclusive and quality education is part of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, with the further specification that all children have access to quality pre‐primary education.
Laura H. V. Wright, Irene Rizzini, Malibongwe Gwele, Lynn McNair, Cristina Laclette Porto, Marsha Orgill, E. Kay M. Tisdall, Malcolm Bush, Linda Biersteker   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

COVID-19: District level vulnerability assessment in India

Clinical Epidemiology and Global Health, 2021
Objectives: COVID-19 Pandemic has brought a threatening challenge to the world and as well as for Indian society and economy. In India, it has become a public health disaster and its' intensity increasing continuously.
Apurba Sarkar, Pradip Chouhan
doaj   +1 more source

Analysing Latin American and Caribbean forest vulnerability from socio-economic factors

Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences, 2017
Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) forest cover reduced by 9% from 1990 to 2015, affecting biodiversity, climate change mitigation and ecosystem service functionality.
Rhys Manners, Consuelo Varela-Ortega
doaj   +1 more source

Integrated rural socio-economic vulnerability analysis in Lampung Province

Jurnal Perspektif Pembiayaan dan Pembangunan Daerah, 2022
One of the common characteristics of rural areas is their vulnerability to socio-economic and environmental shocks. Therefore, rural development policies should consider these features to take full advantage of the benefits of rural development.
Dedy Yuliawan, Dedi Budiman Hakim, Bambang Juanda, Akhmad Fauzi   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Assessment of flood risk in a coastal city considering multiple socio-economic vulnerability scenarios [PDF]

Proceedings of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences
The 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, S. Ghosh, S. Ghosh, S. Karmakar, S. Karmakar   +4 more
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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 vulnerability and losses of flood in Lampung, Indonesia

IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, 2020
Abstract This study aims to determine the distribution of flood locations and the level of socio-economic vulnerability of the community and total losses due to flood disasters in Lampung, Indonesia. Climate change causes extreme weather. Thus, the rainfall increases from the previous year.
N R Chayyani, E Gravitiani, null Suryanto   +2 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 , Sukanya Das , M.N. Murty   +2 more
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