Quantifying and mapping resilience and social vulnerability is a widely used technique to
support risk management, with recent years seeing a proliferation of applications across the …

The increased number of natural hazards due to climate variability has resulted in numerous
disasters in developing countries. In the Philippines, these are expected to be more common …

This paper focuses on a collection of methods that can be used to analyze the water-energy-
food (WEF) nexus. We classify these methods as qualitative or quantitative for …

Introduction: In the past decade significant attention has been given to the development of
tools that attempt to measure the vulnerability, risk or resilience of communities to disasters …

Abstract Indian Gangatic Plain is food basket of the country and vulnerable to variety of
factors. The western region of the Gangatic plain is worst affected due to river bank erosion …

Bangladesh is one of the most disaster-prone countries in the world. In particular, its riverine-
island (char) dwellers face continuous riverbank erosion, frequent flooding, and other …

Bangladesh is one of the most vulnerable countries in the world to climate change. In
general, Char land (Riverine Island) communities are frequently affected by floods, riverbank …

Non-technical summary Our analysis shows that the framing of social vulnerability is shaped
by a narrow definition of resilience, focusing on post-disaster return and recovery responses …

This paper proposes a new approach to developing and utilizing vulnerability indicators,
which is based on the concept of similarity. Methods for assessing the disaster vulnerability …

In this chapter we expand the conceptualization of community well-being, the indicators
used to measure it, and suggest fresh and more systemically comprehensive considerations …