Between 2000 and 2013, Latin America has considerably reduced poverty (from 46.3% to 29.7% of the population). In this … paper, we use synthetic panels to show that, despite progress, the region remains characterized by substantial vulnerability …, and 14% of those in the middle-class, experience poverty at least once over a ten-year period. Furthermore, chronic …

The paper traces the evolution the concept of socioeconomic vulnerability to climate change has followed in the … academic and scientific debate. The recent recognition of vulnerability as a social construction has shifted the focus of the …

index of historical physical impacts of natural disasters, social vulnerability, and institutional capacity was created. It … vulnerability is a main determinant of the distribution of prevention spending but conditioned on being affected by climatological …

, this paper presents and tests an approach to estimating the effects of epidemic outbreaks on health vulnerability. The … online platform, the paper finds that climate has nonnegligible effects on health vulnerability. The evidence found and the … vulnerability index constructed can be used to analyze the main determinants of vulnerability in order to address policy concerns. …

environmental problem, but it cannot solve it by itself leading the vulnerability of the country to almost zero. Our results show …

, political systems, historical experience, economic and environmental vulnerability, ecological fragility, the types of risks … analyses the geographical, historical, economic, tourism-oriented and institutional characteristics, as well as vulnerability …