Calls for more broad-based, integrated, useful knowledge now abound in the world of global
environmental change science. They evidence many scientists' desire to help humanity …

Decision makers, practitioners and community members need to assess the disaster
resilience of their communities and to understand better the risks they face from natural …

Disasters kill, maim, and generate increasingly large economic losses. But they do not
wreak their damage equally across populations, and every disaster has social dimensions at …

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 …

This paper reviews research traditions of vulnerability to environmental change and the
challenges for present vulnerability research in integrating with the domains of resilience …

Recent disasters have demonstrated the challenges faced by society as a result of the
increasing complexity of disaster risk. In this perspective article, we discuss the complex …

There is growing international concern at the rise in the severity of impact and frequency of
extreme environmental events, potentially as a manifestation of global environmental …

The term 'vulnerability'is used in many different ways by various scholarly communities. The
resulting disagreement about the appropriate definition of vulnerability is a frequent cause …

During the past four decades (1960–2000), the United States experienced major
transformations in population size, development patterns, economic conditions, and social …

Natural disasters do not affect people equally. In fact, a vulnerability approach to disasters
would suggest that inequalities in exposure and sensitivity to risk as well as inequalities in …