increase in natural disasters and population exposure, represented by population densities. Population vulnerability also … Asia and the Pacific? This paper considers three main disaster risk factors - rising population exposure, greater … population vulnerability, and increasing climate-related hazards - behind the increased frequency of intense natural disasters …

resilience as indicated by its high-risk exposure and vulnerability. The objective of this paper is to point to policymakers the … importance of resilience thinking and the formulation of appropriate policy interventions to build economic resilience … economic resilience requires finding effective instruments, that is, policies and interventions to deal with different risks …

This paper investigates the vulnerability of households to climatic disasters in the low-lying atoll nation of Tuvalu … the different islands of Tuvalu, and combine these with geographic and topographic information to assess the exposure …

-being of the country’s farmers. This brief is based on a study that examines the level of vulnerability to climate change in … South Africa’s farming sector by developing a nationwide provincial-level vulnerability profile. Particular attention is …

This paper presents the construction classification of the existing engineering covers in Taiwan. The exposure profile … and variable vulnerability during different construction phases are established for some kinds of classes of construction … earthquake with consideration of the dynamic nature of structural changes and exposure values during a construction project …

was quantified by multiplying the exposure value with vulnerability value of residences. The results reveal that Laoximen … degree of exposure indicated by the inundation depth of that residence, and an exposure analysis model was then built. It is … found from the exposure analysis that residences in the sub-districts like Linfen Road, Pengpu Village, Gonghe New Village …

Pacific? This paper considers three main disaster risk factors—rising population exposure, greater population vulnerability … disasters and population exposure, represented by population densities. Population vulnerability also matters, but increasing … incomes seem to be associated first with greater and then lesser vulnerability. Finally, there is a notable association …

exposure and sensitivity minus the adaptive capacity to obtain the vulnerability index. We discuss the similarities and …We applied two methods to assess vulnerability to climate change in Mexico’s agricultural sector. The first one was a … agricultural sector in Mexico gave us the spatial distribution of the high- and very-high vulnerability categories, which we …