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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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Overcoming social barriers in managing vulnerability of alpine tourism to environmental change [PDF]
, 2010 Tourism as the world’s biggest service industry is threatened by global environmental change. Alpine tourism with its economic backbone of alpine skiing has been responding to direct ecological threats of climate change.
Luthe, Tobias
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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 +2 more
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Beyond the Ban—Shedding Light on Smallholders' Price Vulnerability in Indonesia's Palm Oil Industry
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Indonesian government imposed a palm oil export ban in April 2022 to address rising cooking oil prices. This study explores oil palm smallholders' vulnerability to the policy using descriptive statistics, Lasso, and post‐Lasso OLS regressions.
Charlotte‐Elena Reich +3 more
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Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Amid rising food and fertilizer prices, understanding farmers' policy preferences is critical for effective crisis response. We use best‐worst scaling experiment to assess Kenyan mobile‐owning crop farmers' preferences for government support under high and normal price scenarios.
Mywish K. Maredia +4 more
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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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Rethinking energy security and services in practice: national vulnerability and three energy pathways in Tajikistan [PDF]
, 2017 To help answer questions about availability, accessibility, sustainability and other dimensions of energy security, the vulnerability approach concentrates the attention of policymakers on the assessment of risks associated with natural, technical ...
Kassam, K A S +3 more
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Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Rice is the main staple food for more than half of the world's population and the income from rice is an essential source for livelihoods of millions of households. We examine whether direct seed in rice production is an adaptation of rice farmers to rainfall changes and farm labor scarcity.
Manh Hung Do
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Jurnal Ilmu LingkunganThe establishment of an international port at Tanjung Carat is part of the National Strategic Projects initiated by the South Sumatra Provincial Government to boost local economic growth.
Herda Sabriyah Dara Kospa +2 more
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Vulnerability to climate change: people, place and exposure to hazard [PDF]
Advances in Science and Research, 2011 The Human Dimension of the Twinning European and South Asian River Basins to Enhance Capacity and Implement Adaptive Management Approaches Project (EC-Project BRAHMATWINN) is aimed at developing socio-economic tools and context for the effective ...
C. W. Hutton +5 more
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