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 occurrence of major natural disasters in recent years has impacted large cities
worldwide and boosted the need of assessing urban resilience. As a key factor of resilience …

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 emergence of social and environmental emergencies has greatly challenged the
capacity of economic systems to withstand risks. This study discusses how economic …

Recently, scholars have turned to publicly available data to measure the resources and
vulnerability of communities in the face of disasters [1, 2]. However, when measuring …

Understanding disaster risk in all its dimensions is a priority on global agendas. This study
developed an integrated analysis of flood risk drivers using a methodology based on …

This paper investigates district-wide social vulnerability to natural hazards in Nepal.
Disasters such as earthquakes, floods, landslides, epidemics, and droughts are common in …

Social vulnerability helps to identify the population groups who may disproportionally suffer
from natural hazards. The social vulnerability index (SoVI) has equipped extensive efforts to …

Social media, as a new data source, is a promising field in disaster research. Despite doubts
about its validity, a growing number of research institutes and commercial companies are …

The identification of vulnerable people and places to flood is crucial for effective disaster risk
management. Here, we combine flood hazard and social vulnerability index to capture the …