Contextualizing social vulnerability: findings from case studies across Europe
Article
Kuhlicke, C., Scolobig, A., Tapsell, S., Steinfuhrer, A. and De Marchi, B. 2011. Contextualizing social vulnerability: findings from case studies across Europe. Natural Hazards. 58 (2), pp. 789-810.
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Title | Contextualizing social vulnerability: findings from case studies across Europe |
Authors | Kuhlicke, C., Scolobig, A., Tapsell, S., Steinfuhrer, A. and De Marchi, B. |
Abstract | Social vulnerability is a term that has been widely used in the natural hazards literature for quite a few years now. Yet, regardless of how scholars define the term, the approaches and indicators they use remain contested. This article presents findings from social vulnerability assessments conducted in different case studies of flood events in Europe (Germany, Italy and the UK). The case studies relied upon a common set of comparable indicators, but they also adopted a context-sensitive, qualitative approach. A shared finding across the case studies was that it was not possible to identify a common set of socio-economic–demographic indicators to explain social vulnerability of groups and/or individuals for all phases of the disastrous events. Similarly, network-related indicators as well as location- and event-specific indicators did not have the relevance we expected them |
Keywords | Flood; Social vulnerability assessment; Indicators; Case studies; Europe; Interviews; Focus groups; Qualitative and quantitative methods; Triangulation |
Research Group | Flood Hazard Research Centre |
Publisher | Springer |
Journal | Natural Hazards |
ISSN | 0921-030X |
Publication dates | |
Aug 2011 | |
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Deposited | 30 Jul 2012 |
Output status | Published |
Additional information | From the issue entitled "Vulnerability to natural hazards? The challenge of integration" |
Web address (URL) | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11069-011-9751-6 |
Language | English |
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