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Showing 1 to 20 of 79 for “"Social vulnerability"”.
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Volcanic risk assessment: integrating hazard and social vulnerability analysis
The vulnerability of communities at risk from volcanic activity at Volcan Tungurahua, Ecuador and Mount Rainier in the USA provided the focus for this thesis. The research aimed to develop an integrated approach to risk assessments that combined both hazard and vulnerability analysis. In phase one, …
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Indices of Social Vulnerability to Hazards: Model Uncertainty and Sensitivity
<p>Social vulnerability indices have emerged over the past decade as an approach to quantitatively measure the social dimensions of natural hazards vulnerability. Validation of the metrics with external reference data has posed a persistent challenge in large part because social vulnerability is …
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A Comparative Analysis Of Social Vulnerability Mapping For Travis County, Texas
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Three essays examining social vulnerability and place-based determinants of health
… support better health and economic outcomes of socially vulnerable individuals, with a focus on the role policy and planning can play. The first essay focuses on community resilience – the capability that helps communities resist, absorb and recover from disasters and traumas. I empirically …
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Social Vulnerability and Public Health: Developing A Metric For Medical Emergency Management In Florida
… to the inherent ties between indicators of social vulnerability and the quality of public health. With disparate access to finances, insurance, transportation, and medical services, areas of elevated social vulnerability tend to compound risk in terms of medical needs during a hazard event. …
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Persisting Social Vulnerability, Stormwater Infrastructure, and Planning for Flooding and Resilience in Washington D.C.
… the intersection of stormwater infrastructure, social vulnerability, and urban flood management strategies in Washington, D.C. The dissertation is composed of three studies. The first study employs geospatial exploration to assess the equitable allocation of stormwater infrastructure, …
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Social Vulnerability in the Wake of 2010 BP Oil Spill: The Case of Southeast Louisiana
… presented in this dissertation assesses the social impacts of the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon (BP-DH) oil spill in South Louisiana. The coastal region affected by this disaster is made up of rural communities whose residents rely on the Gulf of Mexico and its resources for their livelihoods. …
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A Geospatial Assessment of Social Vulnerability to Sea-Level Rise in Coastal San Luis Obispo
<p>This project is an assessment of social vulnerability to sea-level rise in the unincorporated coastal area of the County of San Luis Obispo (County) using geospatial and statistical analysis. The intention of this assessment is to inform local climate adaptation efforts now required by state …
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An analysis of outcomes for FEMA individual assistance recipients in the context of social vulnerability
… to disparities in a person or community's vulnerability to disasters. Federal disaster aid policy has historically contributed to disaster vulnerability as well, at times enhancing disparities in survivors' ability to respond or recover. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has …
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Moving towards disaster: examining the changing patterns of social vulnerability in a multi-hazard urban environment
Studies of social vulnerability have repeatedly emphasized the importance of identifying the drivers of vulnerability, but very few studies have focused on empirically characterizing those drivers within the domain of vulnerability science that would help in effective policymaking. This …
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Social vulnerability of fishing communities in the southern Cape to change, including additional pressures of COVID-19
… pandemic. This dissertation examines the social vulnerabilities of SSFs in the southern Cape, particularly in the two fishing towns of Bitouville and Melkhoutfontein, to better understand how challenges impact the ability of SSFs to support their livelihoods and how this has changed over …
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Neighborhood historical redlining, present-day social vulnerability and sports and recreational injury hospitalizations in the United States
… practice of the 1930s, present-day social vulnerability (SVI), and sports and recreational injury (SRI) hospitalizations are interconnected topics that highlight the intersection of race, class, and health in the United States but the relationships have not been studied to date. …
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Deconstructing Gender in New Orleans: The Impact of Patriarchy and Social Vulnerability Before and After a Natural Disaster
On August 29th, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall near New Orleans, LA, causing catastrophic damage to the metropolitan area. The hurricane also exposed many of the racial, ethnic, and class-based vulnerabilities experienced by many New Orleanians. However, as is typically the case, gender was …
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Estimating Health Risks Associated With Flooding Following Hurricane Harvey Using Earth Observations and the CDC Social Vulnerability Index
… The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Social Vulnerability Index (CDC SVI), a relative index assigned to census tracts, measures sociodemographic factors that may affect the ability of communities to prepare for, respond to, and recover from extreme weather events. This index, which …
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Social vulnerability, resilience and capital in disasters: Immigrants, refugees and linguistic minorities in the 2010-2011 Canterbury and Tohoku disasters
… Tohoku disasters. This includes their perceived social vulnerabilities and resilience to disasters. Sociological research has found that disasters affect individuals, families and communities differently. Damage and recovery are usually uneven due to the structural inequalities that exist prior …
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Climate change and small-scale fishing in South Africa: a community scale social vulnerability assessment for the southern Cape handline fishery
… these vulnerabilities. This study concerns the vulnerability to the impacts of climate change of fishers who act as crew members in the southern Cape commercial handline fishery. The southern Cape is a rural, peri-urban, and urban region characterised by agriculture, fishing, tourism, and …
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A caravan of hope-gay Christian service: Exploring social vulnerability and capacity-building of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex identified individuals and organizational advocacy in two post Katrina disaster environments
… is a case study focused on exploring social vulnerability and capacity building among sexual minorities in New Orleans and Baton Rouge after Hurricane Katrina. Using social vulnerability as a framework, I employed qualitative methods to explore whether sexual minorities faced added …
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Situações de risco e vulnerabilidade social: desafios, perspectivas e implicações para a Educação de Jovens e Adultos (EJA), em periferias urbanas
Social vulnerability is termed as a condition of individuals or groups in situations of extreme social exclusion, making them at risk. She joins the result of any process of exclusion and discrimination, caused by factors such as poverty, poor educational level and geographic location. The …
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Integrating geographic information systems with the Level 3 Probabilistic Risk Assessment of nuclear power plants to advance modeling of socio-technical infrastructure in emergency response applications
Explicit incorporation of social and organizational factors into Level 1 Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PRA) has been theoretically and methodologically improved and now is in the process of development for Nuclear Power Plant (NPPs) applications. The goal of this study is to initiate the same …
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