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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Community Vulnerability"”.
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Predicting earthquake casualty rates accounting for community vulnerability
… A predicted casualty rate reflects the vulnerability of a community of interest. An accurate prediction of earthquake casualty rates may facilitate the response immediately after a devastating earthquake. Predictions of earthquake casualty rates also offer insights for seismic risk …
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Landscape, Livelihoods and Risk: Community Vulnerability to Landslides in Nepal
… little research into the nature of landslide vulnerability in the Nepalese context. This research takes an interdisciplinary approach to examine, and where necessary, challenge a series of assumptions made regarding landslide vulnerability in Nepal with a view to developing a better …
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Community vulnerability and capacity in post-disaster recovery: the cases of Mano and Mikura neighbourhoods in the wake of the 1995 Kobe earthquake
… a particular focus on the relationship between community vulnerability and capacity. Few studies have examined these interactions, even though vulnerability reduction is recognized to be a vital component of community recovery. Drawing from literature on disaster recovery, community development, …
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Understanding Vulnerability in Alaska Fishing Communities: A Validation Methodology for Rapid Assessment of Well-Being Indices
… of a set of well-being indices that measure community vulnerability. This methodology informs how well such indices reflect the communities they represent by measuring elements of well-being through field observations, and comparing them to corresponding index components created from …
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Adapting to Rising Sea Levels
… coastal engineering, , can address coastal community vulnerability through a combination of regulations and incentives that spur state and local governments to engage in forward land use planning and other measures to reduce their exposure to sea level rise impacts.</p>
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Identifying Optimal Sites for Aquaculture in Southern Ontario Aggregate Pit Lakes: A Sustainable Post-Mining Land-Use Alternative
… as lake surface area, thermal profile and local community vulnerability indicators. Our model aggregates this data and then assigns scores to each pit lake using both the Simple Additive Weighting (SAW) and Preference Ranking Organization Method for Enrichment of Evaluations (PROMETHEE) …
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Community Based Fire Risk Reduction - Case Study of Imizamo Yethu, Hout Bay
… detailed local plans focussed on reducing community vulnerability; something which is not often seen. This research therefore focussed on Community Based Disaster Risk Management for Fires in an informal Cape Town community. The need for increased community involvement in the planning and …
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It will rain if god wills it : local perceptions of climate change in the Futa Tooro of northern Senegal
… awareness of the problem contributes to regional vulnerability. This project explores local awareness of environmental change to evaluate the vulnerability of the Futa Tooro, a Sahel region in Northern Senegal, to climate change. Using semi-structured open-ended interviews of four Futa villages, …
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Bargaining in a Labor Regime: Plantation Life and the Politics of Development in Sri Lanka
… plantation residents, migrant laborers, and community members responding to histories of dislocation and ethnic marginalization. Based on ethnographic observations, detailed life histories, and collaborative dialogue, it explores how Malaiyaha Tamils reconstitute what it means to be a …
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Experience of vulnerability from a gypsy/travelling perspective: a phenomemological study.
… situations or relationships. One’s experience of vulnerability can also be heightened through interaction between the individual and the society within which they live. As such, vulnerability is a dynamic concept that crosses the interface between the self and the social world. It is, therefore, a …
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CLIMATE CHANGE, SHIFTS IN TROPICAL STORM REGIMES AND TRIADICA SEBIFERA INVASION IN COASTAL MISSISSIPPI, UNITED STATES
… reduce competition, and possibly increase community vulnerability to invasion. Shifting disturbance regimes and invasion together are predicted to drive long-term shifts in coastal plant community structure and ecosystem processes. However, impacts of altered environmental conditions on …
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Urban Households' Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change in Mopani District, Limpopo Province, South Africa
… in particular where current dimension of human vulnerability, adaptation and response pattern are very abnormal and pathetically problematic. This thesis therefore examines Urban Households' Vulnerability, adaptation and response to Climate Change in Mopani District, Limpopo Province, South …
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Understanding and improving disaster risk governance to address small-scale recurring disasters: insights from Aotearoa New Zealand
… well as being linked to the underlying causes of vulnerability. There aren’t specific and clear policies in disaster risk governance that address the emergency response to and recovery from small-scale recurring disasters. Thus, they fall through risk assessment processes because those processes …
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Geospatial Technology/Traditional Ecological Knowledge-Derived Information Tools for the Enhancement of Coastal Restoration Decision Support Processes
… of current and historical ecosystem change to community viability. The primary goal was to provide resource managers with a comprehensive method of assessing localized ecological change in the Gulf Coast region that can benefit community sustainability. Using Remote Sensing (RS), Geographic …