Natural Hazards and Social Vulnerability of Place: The Strength-Based Approach Applied to Wollongong, Australia
Natural Hazards and Social Vulnerability of Place: The Strength-Based Approach Applied to Wollongong, Australia
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地方的自然灾害和社会脆弱性：基于强度的方法应用于澳大利亚卧龙岗
DOI：
10.1007/s13753-019-0224-y
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发表时间：
2019
影响因子：
4
通讯作者：
B. Pradhan
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文献类型：
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作者：
R. Ogie;B. Pradhan
自然灾害对世界各地的不同社区和地区构成重大威胁。如果不能识别和支持最脆弱的社区，就会导致灾难。许多研究提出了社会脆弱性指数，用来衡量人口对自然灾害的敏感性及其应对和恢复的能力。然而，现有的技术还没有考虑到不同社区中存在的独特优势，以帮助将灾害损失降至最低。这项研究提出了一种更平衡的方法，称为基于强度的社会脆弱性指数(SSVI)。建议的SSVI技术建立在关于人们在灾害和紧急情况下如何行为的健全的社会心理学理论的基础上，被应用于对澳大利亚新南威尔士州卧龙岗地区不同郊区的社会脆弱性进行比较评估。结果突出了高度脆弱的郊区，并证明了该技术在提高对热点地区的了解方面的有效性，在这些热点地区，有限的资源应该被明智地分配，以帮助社区改善准备、反应和从自然灾害中恢复。
Natural hazards pose significant threats to different communities and various places around the world. Failing to identify and support the most vulnerable communities is a recipe for disaster. Many studies have proposed social vulnerability indices for measuring both the sensitivity of a population to natural hazards and its ability to respond and recover from them. Existing techniques, however, have not accounted for the unique strengths that exist within different communities to help minimize disaster loss. This study proposes a more balanced approach referred to as the strength-based social vulnerability index (SSVI). The proposed SSVI technique, which is built on sound sociopsychological theories of how people act during disasters and emergencies, is applied to assess comparatively the social vulnerability of different suburbs in the Wollongong area of New South Wales, Australia. The results highlight suburbs that are highly vulnerable, and demonstrates the usefulness of the technique in improving understanding of hotspots where limited resources should be judiciously allocated to help communities improve preparedness, response, and recovery from natural hazards.
DOI：
10.1016/j.ijdrr.2015.09.013
发表时间：
2015-12-01
影响因子：
5
作者：
Rufat, Samuel;Tate, Eric;Maroof, Abu Sayeed
通讯作者：
Maroof, Abu Sayeed