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Rural communities’ vulnerability to farmland poverty in varied ecological settings of northwest Ethiopia

Journal of Degraded and Mining Lands Management, 2018
Environmental and climate changes are among the serious threats to the world’s land resources in the 21st Century. Particularly, in the developing countries the impact inevitably goes as the continuing toll on agricultural production, human lives, and ...
Menberu Teshome
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An Approach for the Validation of a Coastal Erosion Vulnerability Index: An Application in Sicily

Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2022
In recent decades, coastal erosion phenomena have increased due to climate change. The increased frequency and intensity of extreme events and the poor sediment supply by anthropized river basins (dams, river weirs, culverts, etc.) have a crucial role in
Giorgio Manno, Grazia Azzara, Carlo Lo Re, Chiara Martinello, Mirko Basile, Edoardo Rotigliano, Giuseppe Ciraolo   +6 more
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Navigating dynamics of farm household livelihood vulnerability to climate-related risks in southern Ethiopia: An agroecology-based comparative analysis

Cogent Food & Agriculture
Ethiopia is frequently mentioned as a country that is extremely vulnerable to climate change. The country’s high vulnerability is mostly from its climate-sensitive agricultural sectors.
Daniel Dalle, Yishak Gecho, Sisay Belay Bedeke   +2 more
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A Vibrational Approach to Node Centrality and Vulnerability in Complex Networks [PDF]

, 2009
We propose a new measure of vulnerability of a node in a complex network. The measure is based on the analogy in which the nodes of the network are represented by balls and the links are identified with springs.
Barthelemy, Borgatti, Chen, Chen, Choi, del Rio, Ernesto Estrada, Estrada, Estrada, Estrada, Estrada, Estrada, Fiedler, Freeman, Freeman, Holme, Jeong, Jordan, Kapferer, Kim, Klein, Naomichi Hatano, Santiago, Spielman, Stephenson, Travençolo, Wang, Wasserman, Xiao, Yang, Zhao, Zhou   +31 more
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Graph Theory Based N-1 Transmission Contingency Selection and Its Application in Security-constrained Unit Commitment

Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy, 2021
Contingency analysis is an important building block in the stability and reliability analysis of power grid operations. However, due to the large number of transmission lines, in practice only a limited number of contingencies could be evaluated.
Lu Nan, Yikui Liu, Lei Wu, Tianqi Liu, Chuan He   +4 more
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Elaboración de un mapa que muestre los grados de vulnerabilidad sísmica, para viviendas de uso residencial en la comuna 7 de la ciudad de Cúcuta

Ecomatemático, 2010
The seismic risk doesn’t depend on the threat or the probability of occurring a seismic event, but also the highest vulnerability that many buildings have, because they haven’t been built with the appropiate regulations, also they don’t have minimun ...
Adriana Rodríguez-Lizcano
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Climate and Disease vulnerability analysis in blocks of Kalahandi District of Odisha, India

Indian Journal of Public Health, 2022
Background: Diarrhea and typhoid, ancient water-borne diseases which are highly connected to rainfall are serious public health challenges in the blocks of Kalahandi district of Odisha, India. Objectives: Corroboration of rainfall and waterborne diseases
Martand Mani Mishra, Netrananda Sahu
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The GDL Vulnerability Index (GVI) [PDF]

Social Indicators Research
AbstractIn this paper we present the GDL Vulnerability Index (GVI), a new composite index to monitor and analyse the human components of vulnerability to climate change, natural disasters, and other kinds of shocks, for societies and geographic areas across the globe.
Jeroen Smits, Janine Huisman
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Combining agriculture, social and climate indicators to classify vulnerable regions in the Indian semi-arid region

Journal of Water and Climate Change, 2022
Climate change vulnerability is highly counter-productive for agriculture among the arid and semi-arid regions. The study constructs the agriculture vulnerability index for Karnataka, a south Indian state.
Rajesh Kalli, Pradyot Ranjan Jena
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Vulnerability of the agricultural sector to climate change: The development of a pantropical Climate Risk Vulnerability Assessment to inform sub-national decision making [PDF]

, 2019
As climate change continues to exert increasing pressure upon the livelihoods and agricultural sector of many developing and developed nations, a need exists to understand and prioritise at the sub national scale which areas and communities are most ...
Bourgoin, Clément, Läderach, Peter, Martinez-Valle, Armando, Parker, Louis   +3 more
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