The U.S. Hurricane Coasts: Increasingly Vulnerable?

Cutter, Susan L.; Johnson, Laurie A.; Finch, Christina; Berry, Melissa M.

doi:10.3200/envt.49.7.8-21

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“…Thus, extensive public participation in disaster risk reduction by education and training is essential (Djalante et al, 2011). Therefore, all stakeholders, including emergency management personnel at all levels of government, the community residents, the volunteers, and other social organizations (Cutter et al, 2007) should be included in the disaster education and training system to foster a culture of universal participation in disaster risk reduction.…”

Section: Fostering a Culture Of Public Participation In Disaster Riskmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Adaptive governance to typhoon disasters for coastal sustainability: A case study in Guangdong, China

Lei

Liu

Zhang

et al. 2015

Environmental Science & Policy

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Section: Fostering a Culture Of Public Participation In Disaster Riskmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Is a high rate of socio-economic development inevitably accompanied by higher risk? The social vulnerability and the absence of effective adaptation actually transform a hazard to a disaster (Smit and Wandel, 2006;Cutter et al, 2007).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Adaptive governance to typhoon disasters for coastal sustainability: A case study in Guangdong, China

Lei

Liu

Zhang

et al. 2015

Environmental Science & Policy

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“…There has also been an increase in vulnerability as a result of more people in hurricane-affected coastal counties living in mobile homes. Between 1970 and 2000, the percentage of the total population living in mobile homes in coastal counties increased from 8.4 to 23.2 % (Cutter et al, 2007). Coastal flooding may be further exacerbated by climate change, including changing sea levels.…”

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confidence: 99%

Enhancing resilience to coastal flooding from severe storms in the USA: international lessons

Lumbroso

Suckall

Nicholls

et al. 2017

Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci.

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Abstract. Recent events in the USA have highlighted a lack of resilience in the coastal population to coastal flooding, especially amongst disadvantaged and isolated communities. Some low-income countries, such as Cuba and Bangladesh, have made significant progress towards transformed societies that are more resilient to the impacts of cyclones and coastal flooding. To understand how this has come about, a systematic review of the peer-reviewed and grey literature related to resilience of communities to coastal flooding was undertaken in both countries. In both Cuba and Bangladesh the trust between national and local authorities, community leaders and civil society is high. As a consequence evacuation warnings are generally followed and communities are well prepared. As a result over the past 25 years in Bangladesh the number of deaths directly related to cyclones and coastal flooding has decreased, despite an increase of almost 50 % in the number of people exposed to these hazards. In Cuba, over the course of eight hurricanes between 2003 and 2011, the normalized number of deaths related to cyclones and coastal floods was an order of magnitude less than in the USA. In low-income countries, warning systems and effective shelter/evacuation systems, combined with high levels of disaster risk-reduction education and social cohesion, coupled with trust between government authorities and vulnerable communities can help to increase resilience to coastal hazards and tropical cyclones. In the USA, transferable lessons include improving communication and the awareness of the risk posed by coastal surges, mainstreaming disaster risk reduction into the education system and building trusted community networks to help isolated and disadvantaged communities, and improve community resilience.

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“…Cutter, Boruff and Shirley [6] used the hazards of place vulnerability model to create an index of social vulnerability to environmental hazards, calling it the Social Vulnerability Index (SoVI). The SoVI approach has been applied at various spatial and temporal scales [17,[19][20][21][22] in the areas of climate change, mortality, morbidity, heat waves, flood disasters and agriculture [23][24][25][26].…”

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Developing a Relative Ranking of Social Vulnerability of Governorates of Yemen to Humanitarian Crisis

Kandeh

Kumar

2015

IJGI

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Abstract:The social vulnerability of the Yemeni population to humanitarian emergencies is not evenly distributed between the governorates. Some governorates may be more susceptible to the impacts than others, based on the circumstances of the people residing within them. In this paper, we present a methodology for assessing social vulnerability of governorates of Yemen to humanitarian emergencies using a Geographic Information Systems approach. We develop a spatial index of social vulnerability from an initial list of 80 variables that were reduced to 12 factors through Principal Component Analysis. Our findings show that the differences in social vulnerability between governorates are primarily driven by 12 factors, of which education, lack of basic services in health, water and sanitation, electricity, housing quality, poverty, limited livelihood opportunities, and internal and external displacement are the major determinants. The results show that the factors that contribute to social vulnerability are different for each governorate, underpinning the need for context-specific vulnerability reduction approaches. The most vulnerable governorates are characterized by conflicts, armed clashes and violence. The geographic variability in social vulnerability further underpins the need for different mitigation, humanitarian response and recovery actions. The use of Geographic Information Systems approach has contributed to our understanding of the geographies of vulnerability to humanitarian emergencies in Yemen.

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The U.S. Hurricane Coasts: Increasingly Vulnerable?

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Adaptive governance to typhoon disasters for coastal sustainability: A case study in Guangdong, China

Adaptive governance to typhoon disasters for coastal sustainability: A case study in Guangdong, China

Enhancing resilience to coastal flooding from severe storms in the USA: international lessons

Developing a Relative Ranking of Social Vulnerability of Governorates of Yemen to Humanitarian Crisis

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