A Method for Constructing a Social Vulnerability Index: An Application to Hurricane Storm Surges in a Developed Country

By Lisa Rygel, D. O'Sullivan, B. Yarnal. 2006

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Flood recovery and property acquisition in Cedar Rapids, Iowa (2016, methodology): “Differential weighting approaches applied in previous studies include statistical (Rygel et al. 2006; Bjarnadottir et al. 2011), expert (Brooks et al. 2005; Emrich 2005), author judgment (Mustafa et al. 2011; Vincent 2004), and stakeholder participation (Oulahen et al. 2015).”
Social vulnerability indices: a comparative assessment using uncertainty and sensitivity analysis (2012, methodology): “Aggregation techniques such as Pareto ranking and data envelopment analysis have also been employed (Clark et al. 1998; Rygel et al. 2006).”
Risks of sea level rise to disadvantaged communities in the United States (2013, methodology): “We review several here that are most relevant to our objective, but this paper does not attempt to review, as others have, the available literature on general social vulnerability (Rygel et al. 2006; Cutter 1996; Dow 1992).”
Social and economic vulnerability of coastal communities to sea-level rise and extreme flooding (2014, methodology): “Rygel et al. (2006) use a Pareto ranking method in order to avoid subjective weighting.”