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

Critical infrastructure and cascading effects are analyzed in this article as cross‐cutting
topics in flood risk and resilience. A concept is developed for integrating aspects of disaster …

The term'natural disaster'is often used to refer to natural events such as earthquakes,
hurricanes or floods. However, the phrase'natural disaster'suggests an uncritical acceptance …

Social vulnerability indices are a means for generating information about people potentially
affected by disasters that are eg triggered by river-floods. The purpose behind such an index …

This paper advocates the use of Bronfenbrenner's bioecological theory as a framework to
analyse resilience at diverse scales. Bronfenbrenner's bioecological theory can be …

This article describes the development and field testing of the Rural Resilience Index (RRI),
an applied disaster resilience assessment index for use in rural and remote communities …

Globally, many built-up areas are threatened by multiple hazards which pose significant
threat to humans, buildings and infrastructure. However, the analysis of the physical …

Social science research conducted since the late 1970's has contributed greatly to society's
ability to mitigate and adapt to natural, technological, and willful disasters. However, as …

Since the early 1990s a number of projects have developed indexes to measure
vulnerability to environmental change. This article investigates the key conceptual and …

Flood risk assessment is an essential part of flood risk management. As part of the new EU
flood directive it is becoming increasingly more popular in European flood policy …