Social factors are one of the most important causes of vulnerability of exposed communities
to disasters. Until now, however, most studies have been done in the developed countries …

Quality management has been widely discussed in the literature, and recent special issues
on humanitarian supply chains and relief operations have emphasized the increasing …

As a concept, social vulnerability describes combinations of social, cultural, economic,
political, and institutional processes that shape socioeconomic differentials in the …

Vulnerability is complex because it involves many characteristics of people and groups that
expose them to harm and limit their ability to anticipate, cope with, and recover from harm …

Although social vulnerability has recently gained attention in academic studies, Brazil lacks
frameworks and indicators to assess it for the entire country. Social vulnerability highlights …

A long history of discriminatory policies in the United States has created disparities in
neighborhood resources that shape ethnoracial health inequities today. To quantify these …

Social vulnerability indices have emerged over the past decade as quantitative measures of
the social dimensions of natural hazards vulnerability. But how reliable are the index …

This article contributes to the disaster literature by measuring and connecting two concepts
that are highly related but whose relationship is rarely empirically evaluated: social …

Understanding the complexity of vulnerability to disasters, including those triggered by
floods, droughts and epidemics is at the heart of disaster risk reduction. Despite its …

Although long-duration power outages can lead to significant damages to the local
economy, the human catastrophe that can potentially unfold due to the failure of essential …