Samuel Rufat
Biographic Data
| ID | 1340391 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Samuel Rufat |
| GIVEN NAMES | Samuel |
| FAMILY NAME | Rufat |
| SIGNATURE | RUFAT S |
| AFFILIATIONS | CY Cergy Paris Université |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6356-1233 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 71 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 25 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Profiles of social vulnerability for flood risk reduction
Social vulnerability indices are increasingly employed as policy and planning instruments for disaster risk reduction. Although indices model the magnitude and spatial distribution of vulnerability, they are coarse and often misleading tools for revealing who is most vulnerable, due to uncertainty and information loss during aggregation. The mismatch inhibits the capacity to reveal intersectional vulnerability drivers and tailor risk reduction in…
Hinging on the preparedness of first responders. A case study on the 2021 flood operations in Romania
In this study, we surveyed a sample of 1023 professional first responders involved in the rescue operations to the floods in the summer of 2021 in Romania, when over two hundred lives were lost and five hundred needed to be evacuated. Our goal was to assess the perceived preparedness of rescuers for disaster response in Romania. We tested the relationship between preparedness and perception of the operative intervention from a cognitive aspect an…
Addressing the social vulnerability gap in disaster risk perception
While practitioners are often prompt to call for more risk communication campaigns, the impacts of disadvantage and vulnerability are often overlooked. This is related to social vulnerability frameworks that often fail to explicitly address risk perception, whereas risk perception theories usually overlook social vulnerability. The resulting social vulnerability research gap might be self-reinforcing: empirical studies will find it difficult to d…
Climate Captivity
The term captivity describes the condition in which people face increasing exposure to human-made climate disruptions or disaster risks without effective means to mitigate these impacts—whether through in-situ adaptation, mobility, or migration. Captivity offers an alternative to terms such as immobility or trapped, shifting the focus toward the root causes of why people remain in potentially uninhabitable places. This article establishes captivi…
Vulnérabilité, territoire, population
Au cours de la pandémie de Covid-19, le terme « vulnérable » a été appliqué aux « individus », « populations », « groupes » ou « pays », y compris dans les lois et les règlements. Plutôt qu’une étiquette pour gouverner les personnes et les territoires, la notion de vulnérabilité devait permettre de s’attaquer aux causes profondes des crises, à la pauvreté et au mal-développement ainsi qu’aux inégalités et aux injustices qu’elles entraînent, qu’el…
Vulnerability, Territory, Population
During the Covid-19 pandemic, the term "vulnerable" was applied to "individuals" and to "populations", "groups" and "countries" in discussions, laws and regulations; now it applies to all objects in relation to all kinds of threats. However, rather than a label for governing people and places, the notion of "vulnerability" was expected to become an instrument to tackle the root causes of disasters, poverty and maldevelopment, as well as the inequ…
Context matters when evacuating large cities
International audience
Should everyone in need be treated equally? A European survey of expert judgment on social vulnerability to floods and pandemics to validate multi-hazard vulnerability factors
Several European countries were affected by severe floods in 2021. At the same time, despite the deployment of vaccines, Europe was the COVID-19 pandemic's epicenter several times during 2021. One research aim of this study is to identify socio-demographic groups vulnerable to floods and whether the groups vulnerable to floods and pandemics overlap or are disjoint. We ran a survey in four languages (English, French, German, and Spanish) and colle…
Spinning in circles? A systematic review on the role of theory in social vulnerability, resilience and adaptation research
Small-Area Estimations from Survey Data for High-Resolution Maps of Urban Flood Risk Perception and Evacuation Behavior
International audience
Drivers and dimensions of flood risk perceptions
La fin du Game ?
À la maison ou dans les transports, au bureau ou aux toilettes, les jeux vidéo sont partout. La banalisation de ce loisir électronique dans toutes les tranches d’âge et toutes les catégories de la société s’est accompagnée d’une diversification des publics mais aussi des manières de jouer. Loin de l’image caricaturale du mâle adolescent jouant des heures durant à des jeux de tir, désormais les jeux vidéo sont pour beaucoup une activité ordinaire …
How fast is fast enough? Twitter usability during emergencies
Answer to the CDC
We would like to thank the CDC colleagues for their Commentary in what constitutes the first comment on a paper published in the Annals in decades. We view critique as a strength of scientific exploration. The Commentary concludes with as statement agreeing with the findings and conclusions of our paper: “we recognize CDC SVI may not identify the most vulnerable populations in all applications and has not done so in the Rufat et al. study (...) w…
The equalising mirage? Socioeconomic segregation and environmental justice in post-socialist Bucharest
How Valid Are Social Vulnerability Models
Social vulnerability models are becoming increasingly important for hazard mitigation and recovery planning, but it remains unclear how well they explain disaster outcomes. Most studies using indicators and indexes employ them to either describe vulnerability patterns or compare newly devised measures to existing ones. The focus of this article is construct validation, in which we investigate the empirical validity of a range of models of social …
Vulnerability and Resilience to Natural Hazards
International audience
Le jeu dans tous ses espaces
The generalization of games as a product and cultural practice is covering a wide heterogeneity of production, consumption and uses. The purpose of this piece is to explain how space and territories are a reading key for the understanding of play phenomena in all their diversity. Our theoretical proposal is to distinguish the spatialities in the sphere of production and the sphere of consumption, we characterize the different spaces produced : th…
Résiliences
La résilience désigne aussi bien le pouvoir d’absorber et de digérer les coups du sort que celui de se relever encore et toujours. Elle promet le dépassement des dommages et de la catastrophe en permettant de retrouver une situation « normale », voire dans certains cas, « meilleure ». Lorsque les leçons d’un désastre ont été tirées, la résilience se présente comme une opportunité pour reconstruire quelque chose de plus sûr.Ce concept soulève pour…
Social vulnerability to floods
A leading challenge in measuring social vulnerability to hazards is for output metrics to better reflect the context in which vulnerability occurs. Through a meta-analysis of 67 flood disaster case studies (1997–2013), this paper profiles the leading drivers of social vulnerability to floods. The results identify demographic characteristics, socioeconomic status, and health as the leading empirical drivers of social vulnerability to damaging floo…
L'adaptation en Île-de-France entre injonction et recyclage. Techniques et politiques de la société de l'incertitude
À l’heure où nous basculons de la société du risque vers celle de l’incertitude, l’adaptation et la résilience, semblent des réponses pragmatiques aux impasses théoriques et opérationnelles. L’adaptation, devenue une injonction internationale, s’impose comme l’élément central des stratégies de réponse aux menaces et à l’incertitude. Héritée de l’écologie botanique, l’adaptation est reprise, souvent sans recul, par des praticiens qui peinent à s’e…
Playing videogames in France
L’étude de l’environnement et de la pratique du jeu vidéo dans une population nationale permet de repenser les questions spatiales dans l’analyse des loisirs. L’enquête Ludespace, réalisée par questionnaire en 2012, auprès d’un échantillon représentatif de la population française de 11 ans et plus (n = 2 542), explore la diversité des rapports au jeu vidéo et replace ces pratiques dans leur contexte social, spatial et culturel. Il s’agit à la foi…
Métropoles en débat
La compétitivité, un horizon incontournable de la ville ? Aucune ville n’y est en tout cas insensible, ni les favorites des classements internationaux, ni celles ne pouvant prétendre qu’à une place régionale, ni même les autres, reléguées de la hiérarchie mondiale mais impatientes de faire bonne figure. Cet ouvrage a précisément pour objectif d’interroger une telle unanimité. Que signifie au juste ce terme de « compétitivité » dont toutes les vil…
Urban Geographies of Hesitant Transition
Scholars have raised concerns about the social costs of the transition from state socialism to capitalism in Central andEasternEurope, and geographers are particularly interested in the spatial expressions and implications of these costs, including apparently increasing residential segregation. Applying a range of segregation measures to 1992 and 2002 census data, this contribution studies socio-occupational residential segregation in Bucharest. …
Spectroscopy of Urban Vulnerability
Despite the considerable work carried out in risk management, vulnerability indexes and aggregative assessments remain a serious issue. The main challenges facing vulnerability assessment are the collection, integration, and synthesis of large quantities of heterogeneous data to provide reliable estimations. This situation has led to the neglect of all significant interactions between the considered indicators, despite their being essential to vu…
How Valid Are Social Vulnerability Models
Social vulnerability models are becoming increasingly important for hazard mitigation and recovery planning, but it remains unclear how well they explain disaster outcomes. Most studies using indicators and indexes employ them to either describe vulnerability patterns or compare newly devised measures to existing ones. The focus of this article is construct validation, in which we investigate the empirical validity of a range of models of social …
Urban Geographies of Hesitant Transition
Scholars have raised concerns about the social costs of the transition from state socialism to capitalism in Central andEasternEurope, and geographers are particularly interested in the spatial expressions and implications of these costs, including apparently increasing residential segregation. Applying a range of segregation measures to 1992 and 2002 census data, this contribution studies socio-occupational residential segregation in Bucharest. …
The equalising mirage? Socioeconomic segregation and environmental justice in post-socialist Bucharest
Spectroscopy of Urban Vulnerability
Despite the considerable work carried out in risk management, vulnerability indexes and aggregative assessments remain a serious issue. The main challenges facing vulnerability assessment are the collection, integration, and synthesis of large quantities of heterogeneous data to provide reliable estimations. This situation has led to the neglect of all significant interactions between the considered indicators, despite their being essential to vu…
Small-Area Estimations from Survey Data for High-Resolution Maps of Urban Flood Risk Perception and Evacuation Behavior
International audience
Drivers and dimensions of flood risk perceptions
How fast is fast enough? Twitter usability during emergencies
Le jeu dans tous ses espaces
The generalization of games as a product and cultural practice is covering a wide heterogeneity of production, consumption and uses. The purpose of this piece is to explain how space and territories are a reading key for the understanding of play phenomena in all their diversity. Our theoretical proposal is to distinguish the spatialities in the sphere of production and the sphere of consumption, we characterize the different spaces produced : th…
Answer to the CDC
We would like to thank the CDC colleagues for their Commentary in what constitutes the first comment on a paper published in the Annals in decades. We view critique as a strength of scientific exploration. The Commentary concludes with as statement agreeing with the findings and conclusions of our paper: “we recognize CDC SVI may not identify the most vulnerable populations in all applications and has not done so in the Rufat et al. study (...) w…
L'adaptation en Île-de-France entre injonction et recyclage. Techniques et politiques de la société de l'incertitude
À l’heure où nous basculons de la société du risque vers celle de l’incertitude, l’adaptation et la résilience, semblent des réponses pragmatiques aux impasses théoriques et opérationnelles. L’adaptation, devenue une injonction internationale, s’impose comme l’élément central des stratégies de réponse aux menaces et à l’incertitude. Héritée de l’écologie botanique, l’adaptation est reprise, souvent sans recul, par des praticiens qui peinent à s’e…
La géographie française, du politique à l'éthique
Dans un monde qui semble avoir perdu ses illusions, l’actualité est dominée par une série de crises, environnementales, géopolitiques, financières, économiques et sociales, qui jettent le discrédit sur les ressorts de l’action, au point d’ouvrir ou de renforcer la crise du politique. Le relativisme moral de la post-modernité s’associe à ce désenchantement pour susciter la méfiance envers les idéologies. Cette perte de repères n’a pas remis en cau…
Spectroscopy of Urban Vulnerability
Despite the considerable work carried out in risk management, vulnerability indexes and aggregative assessments remain a serious issue. The main challenges facing vulnerability assessment are the collection, integration, and synthesis of large quantities of heterogeneous data to provide reliable estimations. This situation has led to the neglect of all significant interactions between the considered indicators, despite their being essential to vu…
Playing videogames in France
L’étude de l’environnement et de la pratique du jeu vidéo dans une population nationale permet de repenser les questions spatiales dans l’analyse des loisirs. L’enquête Ludespace, réalisée par questionnaire en 2012, auprès d’un échantillon représentatif de la population française de 11 ans et plus (n = 2 542), explore la diversité des rapports au jeu vidéo et replace ces pratiques dans leur contexte social, spatial et culturel. Il s’agit à la foi…
Métropoles en débat
La compétitivité, un horizon incontournable de la ville ? Aucune ville n’y est en tout cas insensible, ni les favorites des classements internationaux, ni celles ne pouvant prétendre qu’à une place régionale, ni même les autres, reléguées de la hiérarchie mondiale mais impatientes de faire bonne figure. Cet ouvrage a précisément pour objectif d’interroger une telle unanimité. Que signifie au juste ce terme de « compétitivité » dont toutes les vil…
Urban Geographies of Hesitant Transition
Scholars have raised concerns about the social costs of the transition from state socialism to capitalism in Central andEasternEurope, and geographers are particularly interested in the spatial expressions and implications of these costs, including apparently increasing residential segregation. Applying a range of segregation measures to 1992 and 2002 census data, this contribution studies socio-occupational residential segregation in Bucharest. …
Résiliences
La résilience désigne aussi bien le pouvoir d’absorber et de digérer les coups du sort que celui de se relever encore et toujours. Elle promet le dépassement des dommages et de la catastrophe en permettant de retrouver une situation « normale », voire dans certains cas, « meilleure ». Lorsque les leçons d’un désastre ont été tirées, la résilience se présente comme une opportunité pour reconstruire quelque chose de plus sûr.Ce concept soulève pour…
Social vulnerability to floods
A leading challenge in measuring social vulnerability to hazards is for output metrics to better reflect the context in which vulnerability occurs. Through a meta-analysis of 67 flood disaster case studies (1997–2013), this paper profiles the leading drivers of social vulnerability to floods. The results identify demographic characteristics, socioeconomic status, and health as the leading empirical drivers of social vulnerability to damaging floo…
L'adaptation en Île-de-France entre injonction et recyclage. Techniques et politiques de la société de l'incertitude
À l’heure où nous basculons de la société du risque vers celle de l’incertitude, l’adaptation et la résilience, semblent des réponses pragmatiques aux impasses théoriques et opérationnelles. L’adaptation, devenue une injonction internationale, s’impose comme l’élément central des stratégies de réponse aux menaces et à l’incertitude. Héritée de l’écologie botanique, l’adaptation est reprise, souvent sans recul, par des praticiens qui peinent à s’e…
Le jeu dans tous ses espaces
The generalization of games as a product and cultural practice is covering a wide heterogeneity of production, consumption and uses. The purpose of this piece is to explain how space and territories are a reading key for the understanding of play phenomena in all their diversity. Our theoretical proposal is to distinguish the spatialities in the sphere of production and the sphere of consumption, we characterize the different spaces produced : th…
Vulnerability and Resilience to Natural Hazards
International audience
How Valid Are Social Vulnerability Models
Social vulnerability models are becoming increasingly important for hazard mitigation and recovery planning, but it remains unclear how well they explain disaster outcomes. Most studies using indicators and indexes employ them to either describe vulnerability patterns or compare newly devised measures to existing ones. The focus of this article is construct validation, in which we investigate the empirical validity of a range of models of social …
The equalising mirage? Socioeconomic segregation and environmental justice in post-socialist Bucharest
La fin du Game ?
À la maison ou dans les transports, au bureau ou aux toilettes, les jeux vidéo sont partout. La banalisation de ce loisir électronique dans toutes les tranches d’âge et toutes les catégories de la société s’est accompagnée d’une diversification des publics mais aussi des manières de jouer. Loin de l’image caricaturale du mâle adolescent jouant des heures durant à des jeux de tir, désormais les jeux vidéo sont pour beaucoup une activité ordinaire …
How fast is fast enough? Twitter usability during emergencies
Answer to the CDC
We would like to thank the CDC colleagues for their Commentary in what constitutes the first comment on a paper published in the Annals in decades. We view critique as a strength of scientific exploration. The Commentary concludes with as statement agreeing with the findings and conclusions of our paper: “we recognize CDC SVI may not identify the most vulnerable populations in all applications and has not done so in the Rufat et al. study (...) w…
Drivers and dimensions of flood risk perceptions
Should everyone in need be treated equally? A European survey of expert judgment on social vulnerability to floods and pandemics to validate multi-hazard vulnerability factors
Several European countries were affected by severe floods in 2021. At the same time, despite the deployment of vaccines, Europe was the COVID-19 pandemic's epicenter several times during 2021. One research aim of this study is to identify socio-demographic groups vulnerable to floods and whether the groups vulnerable to floods and pandemics overlap or are disjoint. We ran a survey in four languages (English, French, German, and Spanish) and colle…
Spinning in circles? A systematic review on the role of theory in social vulnerability, resilience and adaptation research
Small-Area Estimations from Survey Data for High-Resolution Maps of Urban Flood Risk Perception and Evacuation Behavior
International audience
Vulnérabilité, territoire, population
Au cours de la pandémie de Covid-19, le terme « vulnérable » a été appliqué aux « individus », « populations », « groupes » ou « pays », y compris dans les lois et les règlements. Plutôt qu’une étiquette pour gouverner les personnes et les territoires, la notion de vulnérabilité devait permettre de s’attaquer aux causes profondes des crises, à la pauvreté et au mal-développement ainsi qu’aux inégalités et aux injustices qu’elles entraînent, qu’el…
Vulnerability, Territory, Population
During the Covid-19 pandemic, the term "vulnerable" was applied to "individuals" and to "populations", "groups" and "countries" in discussions, laws and regulations; now it applies to all objects in relation to all kinds of threats. However, rather than a label for governing people and places, the notion of "vulnerability" was expected to become an instrument to tackle the root causes of disasters, poverty and maldevelopment, as well as the inequ…
Context matters when evacuating large cities
International audience
Profiles of social vulnerability for flood risk reduction
Social vulnerability indices are increasingly employed as policy and planning instruments for disaster risk reduction. Although indices model the magnitude and spatial distribution of vulnerability, they are coarse and often misleading tools for revealing who is most vulnerable, due to uncertainty and information loss during aggregation. The mismatch inhibits the capacity to reveal intersectional vulnerability drivers and tailor risk reduction in…
Hinging on the preparedness of first responders. A case study on the 2021 flood operations in Romania
In this study, we surveyed a sample of 1023 professional first responders involved in the rescue operations to the floods in the summer of 2021 in Romania, when over two hundred lives were lost and five hundred needed to be evacuated. Our goal was to assess the perceived preparedness of rescuers for disaster response in Romania. We tested the relationship between preparedness and perception of the operative intervention from a cognitive aspect an…
Addressing the social vulnerability gap in disaster risk perception
While practitioners are often prompt to call for more risk communication campaigns, the impacts of disadvantage and vulnerability are often overlooked. This is related to social vulnerability frameworks that often fail to explicitly address risk perception, whereas risk perception theories usually overlook social vulnerability. The resulting social vulnerability research gap might be self-reinforcing: empirical studies will find it difficult to d…
Geography (16 works) · Computer Science (14 works) · Disaster Management and Resilience (13 works) · Political science (13 works) · Flood Risk Assessment and Management (11 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Computer security (9 works) · Environmental planning (9 works) · Environmental Science (8 works) · French Urban and Social Studies (8 works)