Social Vulnerability to Environmental Hazards.

Cutter, S. L., Boruff, B. J., & Shirley, W. L. (2003). Social Vulnerability to Environmental Hazards. Social Science Quarterly, 84(2), 242-261.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

2003

Volume

84

Issue

2

Pages

242-261

ISSN

1540-6237

DOI

10.1111/1540-6237.8402002

DOI registrant

Wiley

Link

https://doi.org/10.1111/1540-6237.8402002

Cited from

public_administration_policy, systems_cybernetics

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2 citations across 2 artifacts.

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Primes

• Vulnerability Decomposition
  • Adaptive capacity: evacuation and recovery resources, weak in a low-mobility, elderly neighbourhood and stronger elsewhere.
• Vulnerability Hotspot
  • In public health, census tracts where pollution exposure, housing insecurity, and chronic disease co-occur take the brunt of a heat wave or pandemic far out of proportion to their share of population.

    This sourceThe Social Vulnerability Index combining correlated sensitivity variables (poverty, age, housing) into a composite map of where harm concentrates before an event.

    Supported in partVerified against the publisher's abstract

    Abstract grounds a county-level factor-analytic social vulnerability index that clusters spatially — not census-tract co-occurrence of pollution, housing and disease in heat waves or pandemics.

    “with the most vulnerable counties clustered in metropolitan counties in the east, south Texas, and the Mississippi Delta region”

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