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Navigating Coastal Vulnerability: Introducing the Coastal Fuzzy Vulnerability Index (CFVI)

Journal of Marine Science and Engineering
Vulnerability impacts have increased in an unprecedented way with the effects of global warming, climate change, erosion, sea level rise, tsunami, flood, and drought—natural events that jointly cause geomorphological changes, especially in coastal zones.
Zekâi Şen
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A wildfire vulnerability index for buildings

Scientific Reports, 2022
AbstractRecent wildfire events (e.g. Mediterranean region, USA, and Australia) showed that this hazard poses a serious threat for wildland–urban interface (WUI) areas around the globe. Furthermore, recent events in regions where wildfire does not constitute a frequent hazard (e.g.
Papathoma-Köhle, M., Schlögl, M., Garlichs, C., Diakakis, M., Mavroulis, S., Fuchs, S.   +5 more
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Building a COVID-19 vulnerability index

Journal of Medical Artificial Intelligence, 2020
COVID-19 is an acute respiratory disease that has been classified as a pandemic by the World Health Organization. Characterization of this disease is still in its early stages. However, it is known to have high mortality rates, particularly among individuals with preexisting medical conditions.
DeCaprio, Dave, Gartner, Joseph, Burgess, Thadeus, Garcia, Kristian, Kothari, Sarthak, Sayed, Shaayan, McCall, Carol J.   +6 more
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Confronting federal censorship of social vulnerability index. [PDF]

Lancet Reg Health Am
Huang SJ, McCoy RG.
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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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Potential Seismic Damage Assessment of Residential Buildings in Imzouren City (Northern Morocco)

Buildings, 2018
The main purpose of this study is to assess seismic risk and present earthquake loss scenarios for the city of Imzouren, in northern Morocco. An empirical approach was chosen to assess the seismic vulnerability of the existing buildings, using the ...
Seif-eddine Cherif, Mimoun Chourak, Mohamed Abed, Abdelhalim Douiri   +3 more
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Costa Rican wetlands vulnerability index

Progress in Physical Geography: Earth and Environment, 2022
Costa Rica comprises approximately 6% of the world’s biodiversity. Among these lush ecosystems, wetlands are represented in mangrove forests near the sea, along river lowlands, sedimentary and volcanic mountains, and highland páramo landscapes. In 2018, the Ministry of Environment and Energy (MINAE), through the National System of Conservation Areas ...
Néstor Veas-Ayala, Marcela Alfaro-Córdoba, Adolfo Quesada-Román   +2 more
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Seismic risk in the city of Al Hoceima (north of Morocco) using the vulnerability index method, applied in Risk-UE project [PDF]

, 2017
The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11069-016-2566-8Al Hoceima is one of the most seismic active regions in north of Morocco.
A Coburn, A Poujol, A Tahayt, A Talhaoui, AM Akoglu, ATC-13, CL Casado, D Benedetti, E d’Acremont, E Faccioli, G Grünthal, JVD Woerd, K Pitilakis, L Ait Brahim, Luis Pujades, M Bezzeghoud, Mimoun Chourak, Mohamed Abed, N Lantada, RMSI, S Lagomarsino, Seif-eddine Cherif, SO Alami El, T Cherkaoui, T Cherkaoui, T Mourabit   +25 more
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A Vulnerability Analysis of Coral Reefs in Coastal Ecotourism Areas for Conservation Management

Diversity, 2019
Coral reef ecosystems provide many ecological, economic, and social benefits. Despite their numerous functions, coral reefs are in a vulnerable state due to the effects of human activities.
Harsuko Riniwati, Nuddin Harahab, Zainal Abidin   +2 more
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Estimation of the flood vulnerability index (FVI) for Alexandria city , Egypt: A case study [PDF]

JES: Journal of Engineering Sciences, 2023
Climate change and urbanization are likely to increase the vulnerability of cities by increasing the intensity of flooding, which causes damage to the communities.
Mai Afifi, Abdelkawi Khalifa, Rifaat Abdel Wahaab, Ibrahim Moukhtar, Ezzat Elalfy   +4 more
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