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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
Esaie Dufitimana +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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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 +2 more
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