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

DOI

10.1111/1540-6237.8402002

Link

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

Cited from

public_administration_policy, systems_cybernetics

Cited by

3 citations across 3 artifacts.

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Primes

• Vulnerability Decomposition
  • … date of the community's first Flood Insurance Rate Map, is highly sensitive (no flood-resistant construction), post-FIRM stock moderately so, recent hardened commercial development barely. 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.

Domain-specific

• Vulnerability Index
  • It reduced forty-two U.S. county-level socioeconomic and demographic variables to eleven independent factors by factor analysis and then placed the factors in an additive model.

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