Pinning down vulnerability
From Narratives to Numbers
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3897849 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Daanish Mustafa (0000-0002-1637-3763, King's College London), Sara Ahmed (0000-0001-5172-6790, International Development Research Centre), Eva Saroch, Heather Bell (0000-0002-1275-2168, Pacific Disaster Center) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 62-86 |
| Publication date | 2011-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Disasters (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0361-3666 • E-ISSN: 1467-7717 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-7717.2010.01193.x |
| PMID | 20722691 |
| OpenAlex | W2090199634 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 36 |
| References cited | 32 |
Social vulnerability analyses have typically relied upon narratives to capture the nuances of the concept. While narratives have enhanced our understanding of the multiple drivers of vulnerability, they have had limited influence on hazards and climate adaptation policy. This is partially a function of the different needs and goals of the policy and research communities. The former prioritises generalised quantitative information, while the latter is more concerned with capturing complexity. A theoretically driven and empirically tested quantitative vulnerability and capacities index (VCI) for use at the local scale is presented to help connect vulnerability research and policy. There are four versions of the index for use in rural and urban contexts at the household and community levels. There can be an infinite number of drivers of vulnerability, but the VCI draws upon 12 indicators to represent material, institutional and attitudinal aspects of differential vulnerability and capacities
Adaptation (eye · Adaptive capacity · Climate change · Computer security · Economics · Environmental health · Environmental planning · Environmental resource management · Function (biology · Geography · Index (typography · Narrative · Poison control · Political science · Psychological resilience · Scale (ratio · Social vulnerability · Sociology · Vulnerability (computing · Vulnerability assessment · Vulnerability index · Climate change impacts on agriculture · Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration · Computer Science · Disaster Management and Resilience · Medicine · Psychology · Social Psychology
Biophysical, Socioeconomic, and Geopolitical Vulnerabilities to Hydropower Development on the Nu River, China
Climate Change and Adaptation
A thematic mapping method to assess and analyze potential urban hazards and risks caused by flooding
Assessing community vulnerability to landslide and flood in northwestern Rwanda
Practitioner approaches to measuring community resilience
Towards integrated flood management
A Quick-Scan Methodology Incorporating Local Knowledge for Climate Risk and Vulnerability Assessments Applied in Kampala
Social vulnerability to floods
Historical waterscape trajectories that need care
A review and classification of analytical methods for climate change adaptation
Explaining differential vulnerability to climate change
Unequal Recovery? Federal Resource Distribution after a Midwest Flood Disaster
Development of an individual index of social vulnerability that predicts negative healthcare events
Assessing the impact of shocks on household vulnerability
The politics of framing risk
Investigating the origins of differentiated vulnerabilities to climate change through the lenses of the Capability Approach
Mapping social vulnerability to flood hazard in Norfolk, England
Applying recent advances in climate adaptation research to urban heat risk management
Collective vulnerability between the researcher and the researched
Perspectives on social capacity building for natural hazards
Adaptive governance to typhoon disasters for coastal sustainability
Examining relationships between traditional vulnerability data proxies and hurricane risk perception indicators
Engendering adaptation to climate variability in Gujarat, India
Social Vulnerability Index for the Older People—Hong Kong and New York City as Examples
Modeling multiscalar influences on natural hazards vulnerability
Re-specifying disaster risk
Assessing girls’ HIV vulnerability
Complimentary intersections? Water commodification through the lens of philosophy and geography
Unequal Vulnerability to Flood Hazards
Uncertainty Analysis for a Social Vulnerability Index
Hybrid governance and disaster management in Freetown, Sierra Leone, Monrovia, Liberia, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
How Valid Are Social Vulnerability Models
Performative Vulnerability
Social Vulnerability to Climate Change in Temperate Forest Areas
Pinning down social vulnerability in Sindh Province, Pakistan
Assessing the Relationship Between Social Vulnerability and Community Resilience to Hazards
Land Degradation and Society
Land Degradation and Society
Whose Reality Counts
Rising from the Ashes
From risk to resilience
Vulnerability
The surface of vulnerability
A method for quantifying vulnerability, applied to the agricultural system of the Yaqui Valley, Mexico
Vulnerability to environmental hazards
Small island developing states and their economic vulnerabilities
Why are Rural People Vulnerable to Famine
The Gendered Terrain of Disaster
The political ecology of flood hazard in urban Guyana
A Diamond Anniversary
The Production of an Urban Hazardscape in Pakistan
The effects of hazard zone information on judgements about earthquake damage
Common Themes in the Work of Gilbert White and John Dewey
The Geography of Things That May Become Memories
Disaster vulnerability
Revealing the Vulnerability of People and Places
Vulnerability
The space of vulnerability
Measuring revealed and emergent vulnerabilities of coastal communities to tsunami in Sri Lanka
To Each According to his Power? Participation, Access, and Vulnerability in Irrigation and Flood Management in Pakistan
Persistent Inequalities
Structural Causes of Vulnerability to Flood Hazard in Pakistan
Disaster risk, climate change and international development
Community Resilience and Volcano Hazard
Resource Accessibility and Vulnerability in Andhra Pradesh
| Unique citing works | 36 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,12 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2025 (17) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 35 |