Assessment of social vulnerability to natural hazards in the Yangtze River Delta, China

Yi, Ge; Dou, Wenbin; Gu, Zheng; Qian, Xin; Wang, Jinfei; Xü, Wei; Shi, Peijun; Ming, Xiaodong; Zhou, Xin; Chen, Yuan

doi:10.1007/s00477-013-0725-y

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“…Based on a wide range of academic literature of social vulnerability and social inequality to air pollution, major influencing factors of social vulnerability to air pollution were identified and relevant indicators were initially selected (see Table 1) [29,30,34,36,38,41,[48][49][50][51][52]. …”

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Mapping Social Vulnerability to Air Pollution: A Case Study of the Yangtze River Delta Region, China

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Many frequent and severe air pollution incidents have emerged across the vast parts of China recently. The identification of factors and mapping social vulnerability has become extremely necessary for environmental management and sustainable development. However, studies associating social vulnerability with air pollution remain sparse. With reference to research achievements of social vulnerability, this study made a new trial regarding social vulnerability assessment to air pollution. With the projection pursuit cluster (PPC) model, the top three factors contributing to social vulnerability index (SVI) were discovered and SVI and SVI dimensions (susceptibility, exposure, and adaptability) were evaluated. Results revealed that adaptability values are higher than susceptibility and exposure values. SVI is in a poor condition as, for the whole region, most values belong to the high-medium level. High SVI values mainly appear in the northern and the southern ends of study area. SVI in Shanghai is lower than in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces. On the scale of prefecture-level city, it can be found that the low-value centers of SVI always occurred in urban core areas. The spatial variation and inequality in social vulnerability provide policy-makers a scientific basis for air pollution prevention and sustainable management.

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“…Rygel constructed a social vulnerability index for hurricane storm surges in a developed country with the Pareto ranking method [47]. Moreover, Ge explored the method of projection pursuit cluster (PPC) for quantifying social vulnerability to floods of the Yangtze River Delta in China [36].…”

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Mapping Social Vulnerability to Air Pollution: A Case Study of the Yangtze River Delta Region, China

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“…The number of natural disasters as well as the number of people affected by them has been increasing in the last decades, showing that societies are currently more vulnerable and exposed to these phenomena (Ge et al, 2013). Extreme climate events are responsible for 80 % of the damage caused by those natural disasters worldwide, with floods affecting more than a billion people in the last decade and causing thousands of deaths every year (Vörösmarty et al, 2013).…”

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“…In the last decades the frequency and intensity of natural extreme events has been increasing (Ge et al, 2013) as a result of climate-change-induced changes in climatic patterns, which, most likely, will be aggravated in the next years (e.g. Hov et al, 2013;IPCC, 2012).…”

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“…For that reason, most of the studies developed at this scale only include the main characteristics that define the societal or individual predisposition to be affected, resist, adapt or recover, when exposed to a flood (Ge et al, 2013;Armaş and Gavriş, 2013). In the opinion of the authors of this paper, this characterization, also adopted here, is better suited to define flood social susceptibility (FSS) and therefore the developed index was designated as a social susceptibility index (SSI).…”

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Continental Portuguese Territory Flood Social Susceptibility Index

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Abstract. The combination of human exposure, extreme weather events and lack of adaptation strategies to cope with flood-related impacts can potentially increase losses not only on infrastructure but also on human lives. These impacts are usually difficult to quantify due to the lack of data, and for this reason most of the studies developed at the national scale only include the main characteristics that define the societal or individual predisposition to be affected, resist, adapt or recover, when exposed to a flood.The main objective of this work was to develop a flood social susceptibility index for the continental Portuguese territory based on the most representative variables able to characterize different influencing factors. This index is a component of the national vulnerability index developed in the scope of Flood Maps in Climate Change Scenarios (CIRAC) project, supported by the Portuguese Association of Insurers (APS).The main results showed that the proposed index correctly identified populations less prepared to avoid flood effects or able to cope with them, mostly concentrated in rural inland areas with lower income and education levels when compared with the coastal region between Viana do Castelo and Setúbal.

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Assessment of social vulnerability to natural hazards in the Yangtze River Delta, China

Cited by 78 publications

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Mapping Social Vulnerability to Air Pollution: A Case Study of the Yangtze River Delta Region, China

Mapping Social Vulnerability to Air Pollution: A Case Study of the Yangtze River Delta Region, China

Continental Portuguese Territory Flood Social Susceptibility Index

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