perspectives, from vulnerability studies to resilience thinking. However, the paper argues, this shift is problematic for the … development discourses in the context of climate change. Adaptation to climate change goes along with a significant shift in …

that update the conceptual model of Disaster Resilience of “Loss-Response” of Location. It presents a temporal dimension to … precipitation in the growing season of rice created a flurry of discussions in the academic and policy arenas. These events severely …’ livelihoods. Within a broader context of accessing farmers’ resilience to agricultural drought, this paper focuses on the response …

Vulnerability, resilience, and adaptation are three fundamentally inter-related concepts among such research … evolution processes of vulnerability, resilience, and adaptation, and tentatively categorized past diverse thoughts of their … to address the relationships of vulnerability, resilience, and adaptation within the disaster risk domain, and we further …

Vulnerability is registered not by exposure to hazards alone; it also resides in the resilience of the system … policy options for dealing with uncertainty and future change. Building resilience into human–environment systems is an … experiencing the hazard. Resilience (the capacity of a system to absorb recurrent disturbances, such as natural disasters, so as to …

wider context not only of vulnerability but also of resilience and risk research. It is demonstrated that ‘adaptation’ and …, ‘adaptation’ and ‘adaptive capacity’ are identified as key elements of vulnerability. The results of the analysis are put into a … ‘adaptive capacity’ serve as hinges not only for conceptualising vulnerability but between ‘vulnerability’ and ‘resilience …

-based decision-making analysis, it is concluded that society should make the additional investments to reduce vulnerability to this …

important number of urban areas in earthquake-prone regions of the developing world. The vulnerability indices of the buildings … comparatively inexpensive measures can improve the seismic performance of these buildings; the vulnerability can be reduced by about … 51%. In an intensity IX earthquake scenario, the expected economic loss before retrofitting the buildings is US$5 …

The growing appreciation of mitigation is highlighting theneed to develop a better understanding of what makes some … vulnerability to illness within a population. This has lead to the identification of a setof social, physical and economic factors … disaster vulnerability. Recognizingthat these same concepts are being applied in both the health and disaster management …

opinions are often ignored and not reflected in the services or mitigation policy,despite the fact that they are the ones who … individual, it helps us identify unique needs of the disadvantaged groupsand reflect their opinions in mitigation plan and …) disaster experiences and adaptation produced civic mindedness among people in a community. Copyright Kluwer Academic Publishers …