Quantitative risk assessments of debris flows and other hydrogeological hazards require the analyst to predict damage …

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 …

set of socio-demographic variables. Therefore, shocks perpetuate vulnerability to poverty via their effect on risk …

Several measures of vulnerability to poverty have been suggested in the literature. In practise, only little is known … about the robustness of vulnerability comparisons based on these often quite specific measures. The theory of stochastic … orders can be applied to shed some light on such issues. In the DFG research project "Impact of Shocks on the Vulnerability …