causation of disaster loss in terms of human vulnerability, but also newer questions have arisen regarding distinguishing … between the ‘physical exposure’ of people to threats and societal vulnerability, and linking them with propensity to hazards … loss. Though the vulnerability/resilience paradigm has largely replaced the hazards paradigm within the social sciences and …

tsunami hazard and vulnerability information as well as valuable insights into preparedness activities have been derived for …More than ever before, the last decade revealed the immense vulnerability of the world’s cities to natural hazards … risk reduction approaches. This study presents an approach to transfer knowledge of an extensive multidisciplinary …

The concepts vulnerability and risk are of great importance in the fields of climate change and natural hazards … vulnerability and risk assessments. This paper argues that the main difference between methods to assess vulnerability and risk in … is made using a formal framework of vulnerability to climate change that makes the structure of vulnerability and risk …

disasters. However, there have not been parallel efforts to capture measures for displacement risk. This article seeks to fill … this gap by focusing on (1) a preliminary conceptualization of displacement risk; (2) a set of related indicators and … displacement risk index (DRI) and results for a snapshot year of 2007. The study area, 158 counties in the United States, was the …

Seismic risk scenarios are obtained for an informal settlement in Mérida (Venezuela), which is representative of an … important number of urban areas in earthquake-prone regions of the developing world. The vulnerability indices of the buildings … comparatively inexpensive measures can improve the seismic performance of these buildings; the vulnerability can be reduced by about …

Researchers have recently examined the geographic variability of the vulnerability of populations to earthquakes. These … populations. However, no studies to date have integrated different components of vulnerability with metrics of travel distance to … hospitals and trauma centres (systemic vulnerability). We argue that this previously unaccounted component is an important …