Economic vulnerability is approached from micro- and macroeconomic perspectives. While the microeconomic perspective is … impact of these shocks on economic growth. This paper reviews the literature on macroeconomic vulnerability and finds that … there is no single approach to understanding macroeconomic vulnerability in the context of financial and economic crises in …

Much research to date has tended to view vulnerability by discipline or sector, yet individuals and households …-dimensional vulnerability is likely to become an increasingly important concept if the outlook over the next 15 to 25 years is one of multiple … intellectual strands involved in multi-dimensional vulnerability analysis. In light of the above, this paper reviews the literature …

levels to classify Bolivian households by level of vulnerability. Regression analysis is then carried out to determine the … factors and strategies associated with high resilience or high vulnerability. The results show that the single most important …

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 …