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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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breaking wave pattern, areas of darker water, or the proximity to structures as key visual characteristics of rip currents and …
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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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