Disaster mitigation: the concept of vulnerability revisited

By J. Weichselgartner. 2001

467 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Civil and Structural Engineering, Global and Planetary Change, Sociology and Political Science

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In Civil and Structural Engineering

1. Vivian W. Y. Tam
2. David E. Alexander
3. I. Darnhofer
4. Jorge de Brito
5. L. Evangelista
6. Lindsey Jones

In Global and Planetary Change

1. David E. Alexander
2. Bayes Ahmed
3. I. Kelman

In Sociology and Political Science

1. David E. Alexander
2. I. Kelman
3. I. Darnhofer
4. Lindsey Jones

Citations in the corpus

• Resilience and disaster risk reduction: an etymological journey (2013, background): “Comparative tables of definitions of the term appear in Zhou et al. (2008) and Garschagen (2013), mirroring similar compilations for vulnerability (Weichselgartner, 2001, p. 88) and risk (Brooks 2003, p. 7).”
• Community Resilience to Cyclone Disasters in Coastal Bangladesh (2016, background): “, [12,13,15,20,21]) as well as being assessed in practice with interventions to reduce vulnerability and to increase resilience (e.”
• Social responsibility of major infrastructure projects in China (2015, background): “Developing major infrastructures plays a pivotal role in effectively preventing and mitigating disasters (Weichselgartner, 2001).”