The varied effects of recent extreme weather events around the world exemplify the uneven
impacts of climate change on populations, even within relatively small geographic regions …

The interacting effects of multiple hazards pose a substantial challenge to poverty reduction
and national development. Yet, social vulnerability to multiple hazards is a relatively …

A leading challenge in measuring social vulnerability to hazards is for output metrics to
better reflect the context in which vulnerability occurs. Through a meta-analysis of 67 flood …

Social vulnerability models are becoming increasingly important for hazard mitigation and
recovery planning, but it remains unclear how well they explain disaster outcomes. Most …

This article contributes to the disaster literature by measuring and connecting two concepts
that are highly related but whose relationship is rarely empirically evaluated: social …

Social vulnerability indices have emerged over the past decade as quantitative measures of
the social dimensions of natural hazards vulnerability. But how reliable are the index …

Indexes have gained favor over the past decade as a tool to measure social vulnerability to
hazards. Numerous index designs have been put forward, yet we still know very little about …

Introduction: In the past decade significant attention has been given to the development of
tools that attempt to measure the vulnerability, risk or resilience of communities to disasters …

Societal assets and human populations are spread unequally across landscapes causing
vulnerability and resilience to vary spatially. The spatial scale at which most traditional …

In recent decades, the development of vulnerability frameworks has enlarged the research
in the natural hazards field. Despite progress in developing the vulnerability studies, there is …