The paper deals with the development of a general as well as integrative and holistic
framework to systematize and assess vulnerability, risk and adaptation. The framework is a …

Ever since human society developed, environmental and social changes have led to major
challenges that must be dealt with. Some of these major challenges are seen as “disasters,” …

Disaster risk management is a development strategy that is notably attracting the increasing
concern of policymakers and the general public due to the current emphasis on various …

Clarification on what is meant by 'vulnerability'continues as an unresolved problem in a
world of inter-connected research fields dealing with natural hazards and of policy-makers …

This chapter stresses the need for a paradigm shift from quantification and analysis of the
hazard to the identification, assessment and ranking of vulnerabilities. It underlines the …

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

Despite the heightened interest in resilience over the past decade, theorising and
operationalising resilience across sustainable development, disaster risk reduction and …

In order to understand how people are affected by disasters, it is clearly not enough to
understand only the hazards themselves. Disasters happen when a natural phenomenon …

The climate change and natural hazard communities have developed the notion of
vulnerability and associated methods for its assessment in parallel, with only limited …

Literature on natural risks typically examines either biophysical process characteristics or
human pre‐or post‐disaster activities. This paper takes a somewhat different track; first, it …