Assessing Social Vulnerability of Households and Communities in Flood Prone Urban Areas

Sigrun Kabisch; Nathalie Jean-Baptiste; Regina John; Wilbard Kombe

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-03982-4_6

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Assessing Social Vulnerability of Households and Communities in Flood Prone Urban Areas

Sigrun Kabisch Nathalie Jean-Baptiste Regina John Wilbard Kombe

Year: 2015 Future city Pages: 197-228 Publisher: Springer International Publishing

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-03982-4_6

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Livelihood Flood myth Vulnerability (computing) Adaptive capacity Environmental planning Flooding (psychology) Geography Environmental resource management Vulnerability assessment Asset (computer security) Tanzania Citizen journalism Business Climate change Psychological resilience Political science Computer science Computer security Social psychology Psychology Environmental science

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Flood Risk Assessment and Management

Physical Sciences → Environmental Science → Global and Planetary Change

Disaster Management and Resilience

Social Sciences → Social Sciences → Sociology and Political Science

Climate change impacts on agriculture

Life Sciences → Agricultural and Biological Sciences → Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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