Social factors are one of the most important causes of vulnerability of exposed communities
to disasters. Until now, however, most studies have been done in the developed countries …

Resilience is a multifaceted phenomenon, and approaches to measure resilience across
disciplines have produced wide-ranging methods. This paper presents an inclusive and …

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 …

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 …

The seventh edition of Environmental Hazards provides a much expanded and fully up-to-
date overview of all the extreme environmental events that threaten people and what they …

Tsunamis are unpredictable and infrequent but potentially large impact natural disasters. To
prepare, mitigate and prevent losses from tsunamis, probabilistic hazard and risk analysis …

Authoritative and comprehensive, this is the leading text and professional resource on using
geographic information systems (GIS) to analyze and address public health problems. Basic …

This paper presents a multimodal evacuation simulation for a near-field tsunami through an
agent-based modeling framework in Netlogo. The goals of this paper are to investigate (1) …

Large-Scale Evacuation introduces the reader to the steps involved in evacuation modelling
for towns and cities, from understanding the hazards that can require large-scale …