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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"natural hazards vulnerability"”.
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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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Assessing vulnerability and multi-hazard risk in the Nepal Himalaya
… use change, development, and increased social vulnerability to natural hazards. Understanding how physical processes and human vulnerability to natural hazards interact is a primary objective of researchers, policy makers, and disaster risk reduction practitioners in order to combat increases …
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RISK PERCEPTION AND RESPONSE AMONG INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI
<p>Given the exposure of university campuses to hazards, disaster mitigation is a critical element of higher education policy. Although U.S. higher education institutions are leaders in the global education market, emergency warning systems give little consideration to how international students …
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Addressing emergency preparedness inequality at an individual scale: a case study of Hurricane Harvey
With the rise of the Anthropocene and man-made climate change, extreme weather events like ultra-destructive hurricanes are predicted to become more frequent and increasingly devastating. Hurricane Harvey was an event through which inequalities in emergency preparedness on an individual scale can …