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Assessment of Drought Vulnerability and Occurrence Zones in North Central Nigeria
... Lafia was only affected by drought event of moderate category in 2001, 2004, 2007 and 2010 as shown in Figure 7. This implies that Lafia is relatively low in terms of drought risk and vulnerability compared to ...
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Migration and vulnerability of hiv/aids: a study of migrants from uttar pradesh and bihar in delhi
... Different studies also have recognized that migrants are at having risky sexual behaviors and Simonet, 2004; Soskolne & Shtarkshall, 2002; Zuma, Gouws, Williams, & Lurie, 2003). Migrant’s susceptibility has ...
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Characterising the nature of household vulnerability to climate variability: empirical evidence from two regions of Ghana
... of vulnerability is the idea of resilience of social-ecological systems (Miller et ...and vulnerability are closely related, Gallopín (2006) stresses that care should be taken not to confuse resilience as a ...
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Assessment of coastal vulnerability to climate change hazards at the regional scale: the case study of the North Adriatic Sea
... to vulnerability classes was performed using a 1–5 ...of vulnerability classes associated with each vulnerability ...higher) vulnerability class and does not represent the maxi- mum ...
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A profile of four patterns of vulnerability to functional decline in older general medicine patients in Victoria, Australia: a cross sectional survey
... The VES-13 is a validated survey used to identify patients at risk of functional decline. It comprises 13 items that as- sess age, self-rated health, and difficulty performing 6 physical activities and five functional ...
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A literature survey about risk and vulnerability in drylands, with a focus on the Sahel
... Sen’s entitlement approach to hunger and famine is still very influential in vulnerability research. It argues that hunger and famines are often not caused by a decline in availability of food (i.e. production ...
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INTEGRATED ASSESSMENT OF VULNERABILITY OF RURAL HOUSEHOLDS TO CLIMATE STRESS ACROSS REGIONS IN NIGER
... with vulnerability status such as the number of children less than 5 years, household size and increase in food ...the vulnerability status of order of the value of the corresponding regression ...and ...
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Resistance in vulnerability with an eye to the vulnerability of power
... refer more to a general patriarchical binary code and to a generic humanitarian discourse largely relying upon the liberal and neoliberal discourse of human rights. Sarah Bracke’s essay is the only one that tries to ...
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Susceptibility versus resilience to mountain hazards in Austria - paradigms of vulnerability revisited
... of vulnerability presented in the previous sections have different roots, different scien- tific objects, and therefore different informative ...of vulnerability in natural sciences, a functional re- lation ...
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Climate security and a vulnerability model for conflict prevention: a systematic literature review focusing on African agriculture
... this Vulnerability Model considers the various factors that mediate the impact of cli- matic variables on a given agricultural community and the risk for violent conflict ...for vulnerability, presents a ...
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The Principle of Vulnerability
... I call it The Principle of Vulnerability: arguments must be open to criticism; hence no Arguer should represent the argument as being invulnerable, or immune to criti[r] ...
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The governance of vulnerability
... simultaneously conflicting and deeply imbued with ambiguity (Bauman, 1993). Hoggett (2001) has noted that accounts of agency in social policy scholarship often risk a false dichotomy between emphasising a system as to ...
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Flood Vulnerability Index for Critical Infrastructure Towards Flood Risk Management
... Flood Vulnerability Index Starts by converting each identified indicator as shown in Table 3, 4 and 5 into a normalized (on scale from 0 to 1), dimensionless number using predefined minimum and maximum values from ...
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Research and Design of Network Version Vulnerability Scanning System Based on WEB
... to vulnerability one to one. In order to solve the vulnerability timely and comfortably, vulnerability is contact to repair base one to one in the backstage, also the result will integrate the repair ...
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Identifying vulnerability indicators to climate change of rural fresh water and sanitation
... assessments vulnerability due to CC of RFWS in general and using integrated assessment approach in particular (by IPCC) have not yet been ...establish vulnerability indicators to CC of RFWS via exposure, ...
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The Vulnerability of Rice Value Chains in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Review
... the vulnerability of RVCs to economic globalization, as experienced, for example, through agricultural trade liberalization: limited government support for rice farmers, lack of investment in post-harvesting ...
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Mechanism of Social Vulnerability to Industrial Pollution in Peri-Urban Danang City, Vietnam
... The aspects of change ability of access to resources are the mechanism of vulnerability in Hong Phuoc community which represents for the vulnerability communities around industrial zone development of ...
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Fear and Cheating in Atlanta: Evidence for the Vulnerability Thesis
... fear, vulnerability, its other, is constructed socially and individually as a psychopathology of ...enforce vulnerability and woundedness as ‘lack’ of power, knowledge, and agency, construct, and regulate ...
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Towards an integrated framework for assessing the vulnerability of species to climate change
... The exposure to climatic changes will depend on the degree of regional climatic change that occurs across the range of the organism or habitat in question and the degree to which local microhabitat buffering might reduce ...
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Analysis of coastal vulnerability of Rangsang Island due to climate changes
... vulnerable and very vulnerable. The areas with moderate level are villages of Segomeng, Bina Maju, Mekar Baru, Melai and Kedabu Rapat. Coastal zone of these villages had CVI within the range of 5.5 to 8.5. The most ...
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