Considering the rapid urbanization trends in many parts of the world and the increasing
consequences of climate change, more and more cities are at risk of natural disasters and …

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

This open access volume is the first comprehensive assessment of the Hindu Kush
Himalaya (HKH) region. It comprises important scientific research on the social, economic …

This paper develops and tests the application of a Livelihood Vulnerability Index (LVI) for
agricultural and natural resource-dependent communities in developing countries. The …

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

Generally speaking, vulnerability to environmental hazards means the potential for loss.
Since losses vary geographically, over time, and among different social groups, vulnerability …

For over 50 years, hazards researchers have focused on a series of fundamental ques-tions:
1) what is the human occupancy of hazard zones? 2) How do people and societies respond …

The intimate connections between disaster recovery by and the resilience of affected
communities have become common features of disaster risk reduction programmes since …

Vulnerability is an emerging concept for climate science and policy. Over the past decade,
efforts to assess vulnerability to climate change triggered a process of theory development …

Losses from environmental hazards have escalated in the past decade, prompting a
reorientation of emergency management systems away from simple postevent response …