Climate change and related adaptation strategies have gender-differentiated impacts. This
paper reviews how gender is framed in 41 papers on climate change adaptation through an …

Over the last decade, a growing body of literature has emerged which is concerned with the
question of what form a promising concept of social resilience might take. In this article we …

The study uses commune fixed-effects regressions to estimate the effect of natural disasters
on welfare and poverty of rural households in Vietnam, and subsequently examines …

Vulnerability is complex because it involves many characteristics of people and groups that
expose them to harm and limit their ability to anticipate, cope with, and recover from harm …

Resilience and vulnerability represent two related yet different approaches to understanding
the response of systems and actors to change; to shocks and surprises, as well as slow …

The Handbook provides a comprehensive statement and reference point for hazard and
disaster research, policy making, and practice in an international and multi-disciplinary …

Despite longstanding recognition that small‐scale fisheries make multiple contributions to
economies, societies and cultures, assessing these contributions and incorporating them …

A growing awareness of the value of indigenous knowledge has prompted calls for its use
within disaster risk reduction. The use of indigenous knowledge alongside scientific …

In recent years, the world has watched in horror as tsunamis, earthquakes, and hurricanes
have wrought havoc across countries and continents. While these events have different …

Vulnerability and resilience lie at the core of the new paradigm governing natural disaster
risk management frameworks. However, empirical understandings of socio-economic …