Bjarnadottir, Sigridur; Li, Yue; Stewart, Mark - In: Natural Hazards 59 (2011) 2, pp. 1055-1075
This paper presents the development of the Coastal Community Social Vulnerability Index (CCSVI) in order to quantify the social vulnerability of hurricane-prone areas under various scenarios of climate change. The 2004–2005 Atlantic hurricane seasons is estimated to have caused $150 billion...