Browsing by Subject "social vulnerability"
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(2009-05-15)This study uses geographic information systems to determine if the aggregation of census block data are better than census block group data for analyzing social vulnerability. This was done by applying a social vulnerability ...
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This project intends to answer the question of how rising disaster losses correlate to essential climate change variables. Despite the substantial upward trend in economic losses from disaster, there is still debate over ...
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(2023-05-03)Disaster vulnerability is influenced by existing socioeconomic inequalities, the compounding effects of other disasters, risk perception, and community resources to mitigate and resist disaster impacts. Understanding the ...
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(2021-07-12)This research seeks to understand the vulnerabilities of water systems to disaster events by examining the impact of Hurricane Harvey on water security in the Golden Triangle, located in southeast Texas. The project ...
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(2018-08-13)Although research has long shown that women, people of color and low-income communities are more vulnerable to natural hazards, the disproportionate effects of Hurricane Katrina and subsequent disaster response efforts ...
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(Springer, 2018)Investigations have collectively established that disasters affect people with disabilities both disproportionately and negatively. Relevant research is reviewed by academic genesis areas in this chapter, namely; 1) ...