Environmental health research and the COVID-19 pandemic: A turning point towards sustainability

X Yang, K Lo - Environmental Research, 2021 - Elsevier
Based on a review of COVID-19 research from an environmental health perspective, this
study theorizes the interdependence of the society, environment and health, and presents …

Application of analytical hierarchy process (AHP) for flood risk assessment: a case study in Malda district of West Bengal, India

A Ghosh, SK Kar - Natural Hazards, 2018 - Springer
Flood, a perennial phenomenon mainly in low lying deltaic areas and flood plain regions,
can be viewed as beneficial for enhancing soil fertility and agricultural production, but also …

A place-based model for understanding community resilience to natural disasters

SL Cutter, L Barnes, M Berry, C Burton, E Evans… - Global environmental …, 2008 - Elsevier
There is considerable research interest on the meaning and measurement of resilience from
a variety of research perspectives including those from the hazards/disasters and global …

[KSIĄŻKA][B] Votes for survival: Relational clientelism in Latin America

S Nichter - 2018 - books.google.com
Across the world, many politicians deliver benefits to citizens in direct exchange for their
votes. Scholars often predict the demise of this phenomenon, as it is threatened by …

Vulnerability of wheat farmers: Toward a conceptual framework

S Nazari, GP Rad, H Sedighi, H Azadi - Ecological indicators, 2015 - Elsevier
Vulnerability is expected to differ based on climatic conditions as well as socio-economic
attributes of farming households. In this regard, attention toward vulnerability assessments is …

A framework for the development of the SERV model: A Spatially Explicit Resilience-Vulnerability model

TG Frazier, CM Thompson, RJ Dezzani - Applied Geography, 2014 - Elsevier
Societal assets and human populations are spread unequally across landscapes causing
vulnerability and resilience to vary spatially. The spatial scale at which most traditional …

Exploring multicriteria flood vulnerability by integrating economic, social and ecological dimensions of flood risk and co** capacity: from a starting point view …

S Scheuer, D Haase, V Meyer - Natural hazards, 2011 - Springer
In this paper, we present an approach to modelling multicriteria flood vulnerability which
integrates the economic, social and ecological dimension of risk and co** capacity. We …

Urban social vulnerability assessment with physical proxies and spatial metrics derived from air-and spaceborne imagery and GIS data

A Ebert, N Kerle, A Stein - Natural hazards, 2009 - Springer
Risk management in urban planning is of increasing importance to mitigate the growing
amount of damage and the increasing number of casualties caused by natural disasters …

Can the vulnerable be resilient? Co-existence of vulnerability and disaster resilience: Informal settlements in the Philippines

M Usamah, J Handmer, D Mitchell, I Ahmed - International journal of …, 2014 - Elsevier
This paper explores the relationship between vulnerability and resilience in the context of
informal settlements, using a case study of two barangays in a rural province in the …

Assessment of social vulnerability to flood in urban Côte d'Ivoire using the MOVE framework

MKA Kablan, K Dongo, M Coulibaly - Water, 2017 - mdpi.com
Coupled with poor urban development, the increasing urban population of many Sub-
Saharan African countries is subject to recurrent severe flooding episodes. In response to …