Despite the recent popularity and frequent use of the disaster resilience concept in the
academic, research, and policy programs, there is a limited theoretical understanding of this …

The development literature on hazards and disasters indicates a visible paradigm shift from
hazard assessment to vulnerability analysis and building community resilience. This shift …

abstract Investigations into the relationship between poverty and disability are limited,
particularly from a South African perspective. In addition, when this relationship is addressed …

Limited accessibility and mobility can result in decreased quality of life and well-being, as
well as social exclusion. In the United States (US), rural and small urban communities suffer …

This study uses the Census 2001 and 2011 as well as Community Survey 2007 and 2016
data to derive a multidimensional poverty index in South Africa for each year, before …

Second generation area-based indices of multiple deprivation have been extensively used
in the UK over the last 15 years. They resulted from significant developments in political …

Resilience is widely used from a variety of research perspectives; however, community
resilience in particular is applied to a number of natural hazards and disasters-related …

More than 300 million Indigenous Peoples around the world experience systematic racism
and oppression including Europe's Roma people. Millions of people including asylum …

One of the most valuable features of Capital and Ideology is its concern to take history
seriously and consider how the emergence of different political and economic regimes relate …

This paper presents a spatial analysis of multiple deprivation in South Africa and
demonstrates that the most deprived areas in the country are located in the rural former …