Measuring Social Vulnerability In Caribbean States
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Measuring Social Vulnerability In Caribbean States
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Author : Godfrey St Bernard
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Measuring Social Vulnerability In Caribbean States written by Godfrey St Bernard and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with categories.
Social Vulnerability Measurement In The Caribbean Sub Region A Pilot Test
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Author : Godfrey St. Bernard
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
Social Vulnerability Measurement In The Caribbean Sub Region A Pilot Test written by Godfrey St. Bernard and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Human services categories.
Measuring Social Vulnerability To Natural Hazards
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Author : Carly Hertz Dunno
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
Measuring Social Vulnerability To Natural Hazards written by Carly Hertz Dunno and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with categories.
This study measures social vulnerability in the United States Virgin Islands while testing the applicability of a Social Vulnerability Index that was developed for the United States. The main focus was to develop an understanding of the underlying social processes that cause certain people and places to be more vulnerable than others. Using subdistrict level data derived from the 2000 United States Census of Island Areas, a Principle Components Analysis was conducted that identified eight components of vulnerability that accounted for 93.42% of the variance among vulnerability indicator variables in the dataset. The component scores were summed using an additive model to create an index score of vulnerability for each subdistrict within the islands of St. Croix, St. John and St. Thomas. A comparative assessment of social vulnerability among subdistricts was conducted in a Geographic Information System. By mapping both the Social Vulnerability Index scores and the component scores, the most and least vulnerable subdistricts were identified and the underlying social processes contributing toward this vulnerability emerged. Because of the prevalence of less affluent minority groups, St. Croix was found to be the most vulnerable island, whereas St. John was found to be the least vulnerable island due in part to its affluence and cultural homogeneity. In general, subdistricts with densely built environments, large population densities, and a prevalence of low income minority groups and large concentrations of elderly and/or children were found to be more vulnerable than those with smaller population distributions and more affluent, racially and ethnically homogenous communities. A combination of all indicators of social vulnerability, rather than just one indicator, was necessary to define social vulnerability in the US Virgin Islands.
Towards A Social Vulnerability Index In The Caribbean
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Author : Godfrey St. Bernard
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Towards A Social Vulnerability Index In The Caribbean written by Godfrey St. Bernard and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Caribbean Area categories.
Measuring Social Vulnerability To Environmental Hazards In The Dutch Province Of Zeeland
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Author : Ryan Hamilton Kirby
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
Measuring Social Vulnerability To Environmental Hazards In The Dutch Province Of Zeeland written by Ryan Hamilton Kirby and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with categories.
A Methodological Framework For A Social Vulnerability Index In The Caribbean Sub Region
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Author : Godfrey St. Bernard
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
A Methodological Framework For A Social Vulnerability Index In The Caribbean Sub Region written by Godfrey St. Bernard and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Human services categories.
The Vulnerability Of The Small Island Developing States Of The Caribbean
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
The Vulnerability Of The Small Island Developing States Of The Caribbean written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Caribbean Area categories.
Social Vulnerability And Adaptation To Natural Disasters In Latin America And The Caribbean
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Author : María Paula Vincent Bertiz
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
Social Vulnerability And Adaptation To Natural Disasters In Latin America And The Caribbean written by María Paula Vincent Bertiz and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with categories.
Measuring Vulnerability To Natural Hazards
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Author : Birkmann
language : en
Publisher: The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI)
Release Date : 2007-01-01
Measuring Vulnerability To Natural Hazards written by Birkmann and has been published by The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-01-01 with Science categories.
Measuring Vulnerability to Natural Hazards presents a broad range of current approaches to measuring vulnerability. It provides a comprehensive overview of different concepts at the global, regional, national, and local levels, and explores various schools of thought. More than 40 distinguished academics and practitioners analyse quantitative and qualitative approaches, and examine their strengths and limitations. This book contains concrete experiences and examples from Africa, Asia, the Americas and Europe to illustrate the theoretical analyses.The authors provide answers to some of the key questions on how to measure vulnerability and they draw attention to issues with insufficient coverage, such as the environmental and institutional dimensions of vulnerability and methods to combine different methodologies.This book is a unique compilation of state-of-the-art vulnerability assessment and is essential reading for academics, students, policy makers, practitioners, and anybody else interested in understanding the fundamentals of measuring vulnerability. It is a critical review that provides important conclusions which can serve as an orientation for future research towards more disaster resilient communities.
Vulnerable States
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Author : Guillermina De Ferrari
language : en
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Release Date : 2012-06-29
Vulnerable States written by Guillermina De Ferrari and has been published by University of Virginia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-29 with Literary Criticism categories.
According to Martinican theorist Édouard Glissant, the twentieth century has been dominated in the Caribbean by a passion for the remembrance of colonial history. But while Glissant identifies this passion for memory in the thematizing of nature in Caribbean modernist life, scholar Guillermina De Ferrari claims it is the vulnerability of the human body that has become the trope to which Caribbean postmodernist authors largely appeal in their efforts to revise the discourse that has shaped postcolonial societies. In Vulnerable States: Bodies of Memory in Contemporary Caribbean Fiction, De Ferrari offers a comparative study of novels from across the Caribbean, arguing that vulnerability (symbolic and therefore political) should be seen as the true foundation of Caribbeanness. While most theories of the region have traditionally emphasized corporeality as a constitutive aspect of Caribbean societies, they assume its uniqueness is founded on race, itself understood either as a "fact" of the body or as the "ethnic" fusion of distinctive cultures of origin. In reconceptualizing corporeality as vulnerability, De Ferrari proposes an alternative view of Caribbeanness based on affect—that is, on an emotional disposition that results from the alienating role historical, medical, and anthropological notions of the body have traditionally played in determining how the region understands itself. While vulnerability thus addresses the role historically played by race in determining systems of social and political powerlessness, it also prefigures other ways in which Caribbeanness is currently negotiated at local and international levels, ranging from the stigmatization of the ill to the global fetishization of the region’s physical beauty, material degradation, and political stagnation.Positioned at the intersection of literary and anthropological study, Vulnerable States will appeal to Caribbeanists of the three major language areas of the region as well as to postcolonial scholars interested in issues of race, gender, and nation formation