Essays about: "Hazard and vulnerability analysis"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 18 essays containing the words Hazard and vulnerability analysis.
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1. Potential and Limitations of the Sketch Map Tool in the International Red Cross Red Crescent Movement
University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Riskhantering och SamhällssäkerhetAbstract : In disaster risk management, participatory mapping (PM) closes spatial data gaps in communities by integrating local risk knowledge. The thesis examined the potential and limitations of the Sketch Map Tool (SMT) as a PM tool for community-based disaster risk reduction (DRR) through an International Red Cross Red Crescent Movement case study. READ MORE
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2. Using a social registry to assess household social vulnerability to natural hazards in Malawi
University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för geografiAbstract : Social factors moderate the impacts of natural hazards, which means that households are affected differently when exposed to the same hazard. This differential impact of hazards can be explained by the concept of social vulnerability, which is commonly assessed to inform disaster preparedness and response action. READ MORE
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3. Property Prices and Disaster (In)Justice: Fifty Years of Demographic Change in Hawai’i County’s Lava Hazard Zones
University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Riskhantering och SamhällssäkerhetAbstract : While there is a degree of homogeneity in the physical impact that volcanic hazards can cause, the experience of volcanic risk and the politics of exposure are far from equal. The purpose of this thesis is to expand on research citing population growth and property price dynamics as factors encouraging settlement in the Mauna Loa and Kīlauea lava hazard zones. READ MORE
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4. Including a Vulnerability Centred Adaptation Perspective in Urban Climate Assessment : The Case of International Women in the Malmö Lund Region
University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för Urbana Studier (US)Abstract : The topic of climate adaptation has gained momentum in the last decade as a response to the increasing rate at which global climate is changing. There are two leading discourses to climate adaptation, Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) perspectives, which focuses on adapting to specific climate hazards and scenarios, and Vulnerability Centred Adaptation (VCA), which focuses on the socio-economic and environmental factors that compound climate impacts. READ MORE
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5. LGBTQ+ People & Disasters - A Queer Human Rights-Based Critique of Vulnerability
University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakultetenAbstract : Climate change and hazard events pose an existential threat to human rights. Hazard events were traditionally viewed as ‘natural disasters’ which were beyond our control and the people caught up in them were unfortunate victims to the unstoppable force of nature. READ MORE
