Social vulnerability indices: a comparative assessment using uncertainty and sensitivity analysis

By Eric Tate. Natural Hazards, 2012

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Climate vulnerability mapping: A systematic review and future prospects (2019, methodology): “Many of the studies displayed scant awareness of the statistical implications of their index construction methods (e.g., issues of compensability or co-linearity in linear aggregation), a general failing across many studies of social vulnerability (Tate, 2012).”
Social vulnerability to floods: Review of case studies and implications for measurement (2015, background): “Previous research has demonstrated that hierarchical and inductive indices of social vulnerability are highly sensitive to the weighting approach employed [93].”
Flood recovery and property acquisition in Cedar Rapids, Iowa (2016, methodology): “Particularly when the stakes are high for decisions using indicators, sensitivity analysis should be an element of the index construction process because it helps identify input data and modeling choices that have disproportionate influence on the index (Kienberger and Hagenlocher 2014; Tate 2012).”