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perspectives, from vulnerability studies to resilience thinking. However, the paper argues, this shift is problematic for the …
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Tamil Nadu State through the identification and assessment of coastal hazards and the overall vulnerability to coastal …
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. Increasing the resilience and reducing the vulnerability of social–ecological systems (SES) so that they can withstand these …
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In 2011, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reported that the coastal population of the US that lives within 50 miles of the shoreline exceeded 50 % for the first time in history in spite of a high level of exposure to hurricanes and related flooding. Hurricane Andrew...
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potential tsunamigenic rockslide, by assessing quantitatively hazard, vulnerability, and elements at risk. The proposed method …
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vulnerability from High and Very High Resolution (VHR) optical satellite imagery. We use two case studies. In Sana’a (Yemen), we use … automatic techniques to extract the building stock as well as building height that is used to characterize its vulnerability. In … can in principle map and provide vulnerability information related to the structural fragility of the building stock …
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Severity–duration–frequency (SDF) curves are very useful in the analysis of drought phenomena. Station-level information obtained from SDF curves can be interpolated to obtain severity maps for fixed return period, in order to jointly analyse the spatial variability of drought...
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The hazard posed by a rip current depends in part on the ability of beach users to identify a rip current and to associate surf conditions with the potential for rip currents. Understanding which visual features beach users associated with rip currents is an important step in the development of...
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–environment coping relationship and also an important parameter in the quantification of complex vulnerability as a central predictive …, defined by different degrees of psychological vulnerability, represent the background for a series of psycho … statistical analysis of the results revealed two psychological factors as essential in establishing the psychosocial vulnerability …
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explored climate change vulnerability in terms of exposure, sensitivity and adaptive capacity across different well … experienced climate-induced changes to farm productivity and natural resources. The experience of vulnerability to decreased … the climate change adaptation would benefit by considering: (i) differential impacts of vulnerability mainly based on well …
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