This paper argues for a multidisciplinary framework to assess the relationship between
environmental processes and social sciences that can be adapted to any geographic …

Quantifying and map** resilience and social vulnerability is a widely used technique to
support risk management, with recent years seeing a proliferation of applications across the …

Social vulnerability models are becoming increasingly important for hazard mitigation and
recovery planning, but it remains unclear how well they explain disaster outcomes. Most …

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 …

In our rapidly urbanizing world, many hazard-prone regions face significant challenges
regarding risk-informed urban development. This study addresses this issue by investigating …

COVID-19 is a pandemic event not seen in a century. This research aims to determine
important predictors of resilience towards the COVID 19/Coronavirus Pandemic. This study …

Fostering high-resolution disaster resilience assessment is essential for high-density cities
(HDCs) given their congested built environment. This study introduces and demonstrates a …

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 …

Introduction: In the past decade significant attention has been given to the development of
tools that attempt to measure the vulnerability, risk or resilience of communities to disasters …