Assessment of Social Vulnerability in Malaga Province, Spain: A Comparison of Indicator Standardization Techniques.

Gayen, Sumita; Villalta, Ismael Vallejo; Haque, Sk. Mafizul

doi:10.12795/rea.2021.i41.05

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“…Our variables, together with their definition, territorial unit, source and reference date, largely coincide with those used by other studies and authors to perform vulnerability analyses for other cities of Spain (see, for instance, Egea Jiménez et al, 2008 ; Ayuntamiento de Madrid, 2018; Esteban y Peña et al 2021 ; Gayen et al 2021 ).…”

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confidence: 99%

Vulnerability and COVID-19 infection rates: A changing relationship during the first year of the pandemic

Bárcena‐Martín¹,

Molina²,

Muñoz-Fernandez³

et al. 2022

Economics & Human Biology

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Vulnerability and COVID-19 infection rates: A changing relationship during the first year of the pandemic

Bárcena‐Martín¹,

Molina²,

Muñoz-Fernandez³

et al. 2022

Economics & Human Biology

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“…Natural disasters may cause more deaths in areas with a high population density, making these areas more vulnerable to natural disasters (Cutter et al, 2003;Yoon, 2012). Agriculture is a highly naturedependent economic activity and is susceptible to coastal flooding (Gayen et al, 2021). The region with more agricultural output might suffer agricultural damage and a declining rice yield from storm surge flooding due to a higher value of exposed agricultural production.…”

Section: Social Vulnerabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

The utilization of physically based models and GIS techniques for comprehensive risk assessment of storm surge: A case study of Huizhou

Wang

Mu²,

Qin³

et al. 2022

Front. Mar. Sci.

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Quantitative analyses of storm surge risk, which are mostly focused on physical vulnerability, have been widely used to help coastal communities mitigate impacts and damage. Such assessments, however, overlook the social aspect of vulnerability in storm surge risk. By considering both the community’s social vulnerability and buildings’ physical vulnerability, this study proposed a methodology that incorporates social vulnerability into the framework for making quantitative risk assessments of storm surge using a coupled hydrodynamic and wave model, Geographical Information System (GIS) techniques, and the Principal Component Analysis (PCA) method. The coastal area of Huizhou was chosen as the case study due to its high concentration of oil and gas infrastructure in China’s southern Guangdong Province. By combining hazard, exposure, physical vulnerability, and social vulnerability, it was possible to explore the effect of social vulnerability on the physical vulnerability-based risk assessment of storm surge and determine the overall risk level. First, the Gumbel distribution was utilized to establish five representative and plausible hypothetical typhoon events with different return periods (10, 20, 50, 100, and 1000 years) for the study area. Then, using the well-validated fully-coupled model, the Simulating Waves Nearshore (SWAN) model and the ADvanced CIRCulation (ADCIRC) model, storm surge simulations for defined return periods were run, and the geographical distribution of the maximum surge elevations displayed on a GIS platform was used to assess hazard levels. In terms of the physical aspect, the depth-damage functions for buildings were established to estimate direct economic losses and assign risk levels accordingly. For the social vulnerability of a community, a composite score was computed using the PCA method by combining and aggregating indicators representing various characteristics of the social group. The results show that the overall risk level, taking into account both social vulnerability and physical vulnerability, has decreased on average. It suggests that social vulnerability-based risk assessment may account for a significant portion of the overall risk assessment, which is frequently overlooked in traditional storm surge risk assessment. Additionally, the comprehensive and precise risk maps can assist local policymakers in identifying areas at different risk levels and developing evacuation plans, thereby minimizing potential losses, especially in high-risk areas.

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“…In this method, data are transformed to a specific range (0-1), which confirms that all the features have the exact same scale. Min-max rescaling transformation is determined by the following Equations ( 2) and (3) [59,61].…”

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Flood Risk Assessment and Its Mapping in Purba Medinipur District, West Bengal, India

Gayen

Villalta

Haque

2022

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Floods are one of the most common quasi-natural hazards in costal districts of West Bengal, India and thousands of people are affected every year. From the destruction of crop lands and buildings to the disruption of balance of the environment and the spreading of disease, floods can devastate entire regions. The risk of flood depends on the flood intensity, frequency, and duration, the vulnerability of the people, etc. The spatiality of flood risk is still insufficient at micro level study for the management of resource disasters. In consequence, the present study on ‘flood risk mapping’ is performed in Purba Medinipur (one of the coastal districts of West Bengal, India) by considering the flood frequency and vulnerability of the people as flood risk components. The frequency of floods from 2002 to 2019 is considered as a variable of assessment and twenty-five key indicators are employed to understand the vulnerability of the people of the region. From the analysis, Moyna emerges as the highest flood risk prone block and Contai-I is the least flood prone block of the district. The results can help to minimize the chances of death, injury, loss, or harm and establish a good disaster management plan against floods.

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Assessment of Social Vulnerability in Malaga Province, Spain: A Comparison of Indicator Standardization Techniques.

Cited by 10 publications

References 67 publications

Vulnerability and COVID-19 infection rates: A changing relationship during the first year of the pandemic

Vulnerability and COVID-19 infection rates: A changing relationship during the first year of the pandemic

The utilization of physically based models and GIS techniques for comprehensive risk assessment of storm surge: A case study of Huizhou

Flood Risk Assessment and Its Mapping in Purba Medinipur District, West Bengal, India

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