constructions of vulnerability to water scarcity by local stakeholders. It demonstrates how, in the absence of effective formal …, creating situations in which “your resilience is my vulnerability”. The novel contribution of the paper to resilience research … is threefold. Firstly, it illustrates how the vulnerability and resilience of a socio-ecological system—such as small …

Risk is the product of the probability and consequences of an event. Both of these must be based upon sound science … integrated risk assessment. In this framework the underlying scientific understanding of processes that affect probability and … greatest level of uncertainty at the decision level. We review two examples of the determination of volcanic event probability …

changes at the extremes of the distribution might obscure inequality's actual dimension, and thereby help perpetuate it. To … avoid this, the present paper discusses a complementary indicator for the measurement of inequality: the ratio of the income …