Risk Assessment of Socio-Economic Vulnerability to Climate Change: Case Study of Tyumen Region
WorldThe risk of socio-economic vulnerability depends not only on the risk of climate hazards occurring but also on society’s vulnerability to such hazards, coping capacity, and adaptive capacity.
Olga Zakharova +4 more
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Tropical Agricultural Research, 2017 A system is said to be vulnerable when it is unable to cope with the adverse effects of climate change, including climate variability. Vulnerability is widely used in development and adaptation contexts.
D. M. N. Diyawadana +2 more
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Trajectories of social vulnerability during the Soufrière Hills volcanic crisis [PDF]
, 2015 When some active volcanoes enter into an eruptive phase, they generate a succession of hazard events manifested over a multi-year period of time. Under such conditions of prolonged risk, understanding what makes a population vulnerable to volcanic ...
Few, Roger, Hicks, Anna
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ISPRS International Journal of Geo-InformationRapid urbanization and climate change are increasing the risks associated with natural hazards, especially in cities where socio-economic disparities are significant.
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A spatially explicit and quantitative vulnerability assessment of ecosystem service change in Europe [PDF]
, 2008 Environmental change alters ecosystem functioning and may put the provision of services to human at risk. This paper presents a spatially explicit and quantitative assessment of the corresponding vulnerability for Europe, using a new framework designed ...
Cramer, W. +3 more
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ReAFFIRM: Real-time Assessment of Flash Flood Impacts: a Regional high-resolution Method [PDF]
, 2020 Flash floods evolve rapidly in time, which poses particular challenges to emergency managers. One way to support decision-making is to complement models that estimate the flash flood hazard (e.g.
Berenguer Ferrer, Marc +4 more
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Genetic, Cultural or Socio‐economic Vulnerability? Explaining Ethnic Inequalities in Health [PDF]
Sociology of Health & Illness, 1998 Most work on ethnic inequalities in health in the UK has focused on genetic and cultural difference, ignoring issues relating to class disadvantage. However, more recent work, and that conducted in the US, suggests that material disadvantage might be crucial.
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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 ...
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Coastal vulnerability assessment of Puducherry coast, India, using the analytical hierarchical process [PDF]
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 2013 As a consequence of change in global climate, an increased frequency of natural hazards such as storm surges, tsunamis and cyclones, is predicted to have dramatic affects on the coastal communities and ecosystems by virtue of the devastation they cause ...
R. Mani Murali +3 more
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Climate change and urban stormwater: vulnerability analysis of the 2010 floods in Lomé, Togo
Frontiers in Climate, 2023 This manuscript assesses the vulnerability to flooding between June and August 2010 in Lomé, Togo. To this end, we administered a survey to 312 inhabitants of different areas affected by flooding.
Reisch Vanel Attipo +2 more
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