Measuring the unmeasurable: the challenge of vulnerability

By J. Birkmann, B. Wisner. 2006

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1. T. Madhuri
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• Livelihood vulnerability index analysis : an approach to study vulnerability in the context of Bihar : original research (2014, background): “Adger (2006) and Birkmann and Wisner (2006) purport that resilience is part of the adaptive capacity of households.”
• Risk and vulnerability indicators at different scales: Applicability, usefulness and policy implications (2007, background): “In this regard, ‘measuring vulnerability’ is not limited to quantitative approaches; rather, it encompasses both quantitative and qualitative methods to describe and operationalise vulnerability (see in detail Birkmann and Wisner, 2006).”