The concept of vulnerability is pillared by multiple disciplinary theories underpinning either a
technical or a social origin of the concept and resulting in a range of paradigms for either a …

Assessment of Vulnerability to Natural Hazards covers the vulnerability of human and
environmental systems to climate change and eight natural hazards: earthquakes, floods …

Mountain hazards such as landslides, floods and avalanches pose a serious threat to
human lives and development and can cause considerable damage to lifelines, critical …

Institutional vulnerability to natural hazards has not been thoroughly investigated until now.
Yet, institutional vulnerability is strongly connected to all other vulnerability dimensions, and …

Vulnerability is an essential part of hazards and risk research and refers to the susceptibility
of people, communities or regions to natural or technological hazards. The ESPON Hazards …

In recent years there has been growing recognition that disaster risk cannot be reduced by
focusing solely on physical hazards without considering factors that influence socio …

The perception and handling of dangers are an integral part of the history of human
societies. Human beings have always tried to protect themselves against perceived hazards …

Vulnerability studies have evolved significantly in recent decades. Although not overly
theoretical compared with some other fields of science, some important conceptual progress …

Negative consequences of natural hazards are the result of both the frequency and intensity
of the hazard and the vulnerability of the society or element at risk exposed. Therefore …

Abstract this paper argues that the conceptions of “vulnerability” and “resilience”, which have
been strongly influenced by ecology and natural hazards research, have been widely used …