This paper reviews the concept of adaptive capacity and various approaches to assessing it,
particularly with respect to climate variability and change. I find that adaptive capacity is a …

There is growing demand among stakeholders across public and private institutions for
spatially-explicit information regarding vulnerability to climate change at the local scale …

The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically impacted tourism and leisure activities
worldwide, especially in the hospitality sector. This paper has a conceptual and empirical …

In recent years there has been an exponential growth in the number of publications related
to theory and applications of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). Charnes, Cooper, and …

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 …

The study uses commune fixed-effects regressions to estimate the effect of natural disasters
on welfare and poverty of rural households in Vietnam, and subsequently examines …

The collection of articles in this Special Feature is part of a larger project on “Forecasting
Societies' Adaptive Capacity to Climate Change”(an Advanced Grant of the European …

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 …