floods, by accounting for heterogeneous levels of resilience and vulnerability to natural disasters. Our findings, based on a … expenditure and revenues from transfer, which also depend on the degree of resilience and vulnerability. Through our analysis we …

floods, by accounting for heterogeneous levels of resilience and vulnerability to natural disasters. Our findings, based on a … expenditure and revenues from transfer, which also depend on the degree of resilience and vulnerability. Through our analysis we …

Mountain hazards such as landslides, floods and avalanches pose a serious threat to human lives and development and can … infrastructure and assets. The assessment of the vulnerability of the built environment to these hazards is a topic that is growing … in importance due to climate change impacts. A proper understanding of vulnerability will lead to more effective risk …

Recent developments in the vulnerability literature have contested the use of technical solutions as the sole adaptive … people are exposed and that aggravate hazard vulnerability. Using a case study of two flood-prone communities in Puerto Rico …, this article supports and enhances that literature by placing floods within a wider context of other risks and determining …

This paper develops a view of vulnerability attempting to capture a constitutive dimension of most disasters, that is …, as well as, its consequences for people by developing a dynamic and actor-oriented understanding of vulnerability. It … begins with an outline about how to observe and explain vulnerability by offering a brief overview of how the discussion on …

. However, with the recent introduction of the EU Floods Directive (2007/60/EC), the need for reliable, but cost effective, risk …

of severe floods. Taking recent case studies with the UK Fire Service, the patterns of vulnerability, in terms of demand …A vulnerability index for the Fire Service in the UK has been designed to identify vulnerable locations during episodes …