Current approaches of measuring vulnerability to natural hazards generally use a rather static perspective that focuses … on a single point in time?often before a hazardous event occurs. In contrast, the paper argues that vulnerability …

The concepts vulnerability, resilience and community are widely used and abused in the literature on natural hazards … and disaster risk reduction. This paper seeks to bring greater rigour in their use. In particular, vulnerability must be … inverse of vulnerability, and by others as an independent quality. These confusions may be especially relevant in the context …

implications of such vulnerability. …

economic cause of humanitarian disasters. …

A small but growing literature has been concerned about the economic (and environmental) vulnerability on the level of … countries. Less attention is paid to the economic vulnerability of different regions within countries. By focusing on the … vulnerability of subnational regions, our paper contributes to the small literature on the ?vulnerability of place?. We see the …

There are alternative definitions of vulnerability to poverty. Most researchers prefer to define vulnerability as the … panel data from rural China, this paper attempt to assess the extent to which we can measure vulnerability to poverty. The … assessment is based on comparisons between predicted vulnerability and actually observed poverty. We find that the precision of …