The behaviour of individuals, businesses, and government entities before, during, and
immediately after a disaster can dramatically affect the impact and recovery time. However …

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 …

Human exposure to floods continues to increase, driven by changes in hydrology and land
use. Adverse impacts amplify for socially vulnerable populations, who disproportionately …

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

A leading challenge in measuring social vulnerability to hazards is for output metrics to
better reflect the context in which vulnerability occurs. Through a meta-analysis of 67 flood …

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

Reducing the social, environmental, and economic impacts of droughts and identifying
pathways towards drought resilient societies remains a global priority. A common …

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 …

Increasing human pressures on coastlines and associated threats posed by sea-level rise
have stimulated development of a range of different concepts and methodological …

The seventh edition of Environmental Hazards provides a much expanded and fully up-to-
date overview of all the extreme environmental events that threaten people and what they …