, looking at food insecurity from a vulnerability perspective provides a dynamic and forward looking way of analysing causes and … 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 …

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 …

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 …

In response to the need expressed by the UN General Assembly, an economic vulnerability index (EVI) has been defined by … economic vulnerability index can be designed for the low-income countries in particular. It recalls the conceptual and …

This paper measures the vulnerability of households in rural India, based upon the ICRISAT panel survey. We employ both … ex ante and ex post measures of vulnerability. The latter are decomposed into aggregate and idiosyncratic risks and …

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 …

emerging countries. The aim is to detect empirically the phenomenon of vulnerability induced by trade openness. The methodology …

address a wide array of risks and associated vulnerability. For the poorest of the poor one of their key concerns is access to …