Assessing the Vulnerability of Coastal Communities to Extreme Storms: The Case of Revere, MA., USA

Clark, George; Moser, Susanne C.; Ratick, Samuel J.; Dow, Kirstin; Meyer, William B.; Emani, Sirisha; Jin, Weigen; Kasperson, Jeanne X.; Kasperson, Roger E.; Schwarz, Harry E.

doi:10.1023/a:1009609710795

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“…Also crisis management includes planning, organizing, leadership, coordination, control and supporting urban vulnerability against natural disasters, such as earthquakes and it is a function of human behavior which indicates the degree of vulnerability or stability of socio-economic units and urban physical assets against natural hazards. Vulnerability is the probability of exposition of a person or group to adverse effects of a hazard (Clark, 1998).…”

Section: Earthquake Crisismentioning

confidence: 99%

Investigating the Mechanism of Confronting Earthquake Crisis, With the Approach of Rehabilitation of Urban Worn Textures

Shivaei¹,

Rahimi²

2016

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Seismic rehabilitation of structures subjected to earthquake is one of the most important engineering issues in earthquake-prone countries all over the world. Vast areas in the existing structures which are located in earthquake-prone areas do not enjoy enough seismic safety. The structure can be restored by using different rehabilitation techniques in order to avoid possible problems during severe earthquakes. There are several methods for seismic rehabilitation of structures and the designing engineer must select the most economical approach with the best performance during the earthquake. In this paper, at first the earthquake crisis has been defined and management methods have been expressed, through using library resources and qualitative-analytical methods. Then we have studied different buildings and their rehabilitation and renovation methods and finally we achieved a set of rehabilitation and crisis management strategies.

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Section: Earthquake Crisismentioning

confidence: 99%

Investigating the Mechanism of Confronting Earthquake Crisis, With the Approach of Rehabilitation of Urban Worn Textures

Shivaei¹,

Rahimi²

2016

TOJDAC

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“…It will be argued in this paper that vulnerability needs to be envisaged as a multifaceted concept that goes beyond a focus on the physical and built environment to socio-demographic characteristics of particular population groups and households. This viewpoint recognises that peoples' experiences of the impacts of global climate change and propensity for adaptation depend on their situations in the social and physical words and will vary on a continuum from positive to negative (Clark et al 1998). For instance, the impacts of climate change will be more pronounced for low income households, those in poor health and the homeless (Sherrard & Tate 2007).…”

Section: Social Exclusion/inclusionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For example, it is not surprising to find that low income households are generally more vulnerable to the impacts of a physical hazard than other income groups (Clark et al 1998) and that income is also associated with coping capacity. Low income households and individuals often lack the capacity to deal with the negative outcomes of extreme events in an appropriate manner and the requisite resources to recover from even modest loss.…”

Section: Place Social Exclusion and Climate Changementioning

confidence: 99%

Making space for social inclusion in conceptualising climate change vulnerability

Arthurson

Baum

2013

Local Environment

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(150 words)Impacts from climate change pose a raft of challenges for societies, governments and policy makers internationally. The anticipated changes are well documented, including rising sea levels, increased floods and other extreme weather conditions. Much research and policy emphasis has focused on technical and economic aspects. Less debated are questions about different communities' vulnerabilities, inequitable distributional impacts, social justice issues and how vulnerability links to social inclusion/exclusion. This paper explores a case study which maps social exclusion and vulnerability in Brisbane, Queensland, and found that while communities can be vulnerable through physical aspects of an area, when social dimensions are added to the equation it amplifies or exacerbates the scale of vulnerability. The findings also suggest that in developing research agendas and policy debates around climate change there could be benefits from interlinking the currently separate areas of work on social vulnerability to extreme weather events, to forms and processes of social inclusion/exclusion.

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“…According to the HPM, vulnerability is derived from the interaction of both a geophysical risk and a social response at a specific geographic location. To date, many vulnerability studies that implement the HPM have focused on the combination of geophysical risk and social factors in creating a composite place vulnerability index or map (Clark et al 1998;Cutter et al 2000;Chakraborty et al 2005;Wood et al 2010;Schmidtlein et al 2011;Kar & Hodgson 2012). For example, Cutter et al (2000) combined several geophysical variables and socioeconomic data of Georgetown County, South Carolina to develop geophysical and social vulnerability maps, respectively.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Over the last three decades, most hazard researchers that focused on vulnerability analyses have paid particular attention to the intersection of geophysical risk and social factors in generating place vulnerability (Clark et al 1998;Montz and Tobin 1998;Mileti 1999;Cutter et al 2000;Wu et al 2002;Brooks et al 2005;Chakraborty et al 2005;Cutter & Finch 2008;Wood et al 2010;Schmidtlein et al 2011;Kar & Hodgson 2012). This approach is derivative of the Hazards-of-Place Model (HPM) developed by Cutter (1996) which offers a conceptual framework through which place vulnerability is defined as a combination of social characteristics (expressed by selected socioeconomic demographics) and geophysical risk (expressed by probabilities of occurrence).…”

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Incorporating evacuation potential into place vulnerability analysis

Yorke

Zhan

et al. 2013

Geomatics, Natural Hazards and Risk

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The purpose of this research is to illustrate a three-component operationalization of the Hazards-of-Place Model (HPM) by integrating urban infrastructure (using the capacity of road networks to facilitate evacuation as an example) to describe place vulnerability. This approach is informed by the HPM first articulated by Cutter (Vulnerability to environmental hazards. Prog Hum Geog. 20:529-39, 1996). The HPM is a conceptual framework through which place vulnerability is defined as a combination of social characteristics (expressed by selected socioeconomic demographics) and geophysical risk (expressed by probabilities of occurrence). Using a geographic information system (GIS), the study models the capacity of road networks to facilitate evacuation and used it as an example of urban infrastructure within which place vulnerability occurs. The output of the model was integrated with a geophysical risk layer and social vulnerability index layer as components for assessing the overall place vulnerability. The threecomponent approach to operationalizing the HPM provides a detailed and nuanced illustration of place-based vulnerability. As an applied tool, the threecomponent approach presents emergency planners with a new method of integrating diverse geographic data when illustrating spatial patterns of vulnerability to environmental hazards.

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Assessing the Vulnerability of Coastal Communities to Extreme Storms: The Case of Revere, MA., USA

Cited by 313 publications

References 19 publications

Investigating the Mechanism of Confronting Earthquake Crisis, With the Approach of Rehabilitation of Urban Worn Textures

Investigating the Mechanism of Confronting Earthquake Crisis, With the Approach of Rehabilitation of Urban Worn Textures

Making space for social inclusion in conceptualising climate change vulnerability

Incorporating evacuation potential into place vulnerability analysis

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