Patrick Stone lays out the five steps of a vulnerability assessment for a new firehouse that identifies ways that the building can be hardened against natural disasters via ...

Therefore, comparable tools from the climate change field (eg, vulnerability assessment in natural hazards) will also be considered. We will include all infectious diseases but will have a special ...

In this talk, I will reflect on the current state of art of multi-hazard vulnerability assessment of physical infrastructure, drawing from experience of generating fragility functions using expert ...

Although models of social vulnerability to environmental hazards are commonly developed to support policy ... we perform a segmentation analysis to generalize them into thematic cohort vulnerability ...

exposure and vulnerability. For example, when a settlement is established on the shores of a river, hydrologists can identify and characterise flood hazard by carrying out a hydraulic analysis.