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Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 2015

Special issue on Demographic differential vulnerability to climate-related disasters

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Refereed Articles

Differential mortality from extreme climate events

Differential mortality patterns from hydro-meteorological disasters: Evidence from cause-of-death data by age and sex (Emilio Zagheni, Raya Muttarak, Erich Striessnig)

Daily mortality changes in Taiwan in the 1970s: An examination of the relationship between temperature and mortality (Zhongwei Zhao, Yuan Zhu and Edward Jow-Ching Tu)

Spatial patterns of social vulnerability to weather and climate extremes

Assessing the effectiveness of a social vulnerability index in predicting heterogeneity in the impacts of natural hazards: Case study of the Tropical Storm Washi flood in the Philippines (J. Andres F. Ignacio, Grace T. Cruz, Fernando Nardi and Sabine Henry)

Social vulnerability to floods in two coastal megacities: New York City and Mumbai (Alex de Sherbinin and Guillem Bardy)

Who perceives what? A demographic analysis of subjective perception in rural Thailand (Jacqueline Meijer-Irons)

Who is concerned about and takes action on climate change? Gender and education divides among Thais (Raya Muttarak and Thanyaporn Chankrajang)

Forecasting future societies vulnerability and adaptive capacity through the lens of human capital

Future differential vulnerability to natural disasters by level of education (Erich Striessnig and Elke Loichinger)

The demography of human development and climate change vulnerability: A projection exercise (Jesus Crespo Cuaresma and Wolfgang Lutz)

A four-dimensional population module for the analysis of future adaptive capacity in the Phang Nga province of Thailand (Elke Loichinger, Samir KC and Wolfgang Lutz)

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Assessing the effectiveness of a social vulnerability index in predicting heterogeneity in the impacts of natural hazards: Case study of the Tropical Storm Washi flood in the Philippines

    J. Andres F. Ignacio, Grace T. Cruz, Fernando Nardi, Sabine Henry

Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 2015, pp. 91-129, 2024/12/12

Special issue on Demographic differential vulnerability to climate-related disasters

doi: 10.1553/populationyearbook2015s91


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doi:10.1553/populationyearbook2015s91

Abstract

As global warming and climate change predictions become increasingly certain, there is mounting pressure to gain a better understanding of disaster risk. Climate change is seen as a major contributing factor in the recent increases in the losses and damages attributed to hazard extremes. Vulnerability is one of the key components of risk. Yet identifying who the vulnerable segments of the population are, and to which specific hazards different groups are vulnerable, remains a challenge. Measuring social vulnerability has become an active area of research, with scholars attempting to capture the differential vulnerabilities of the population exposed to certain hazards. To address these research challenges, we developed in this study social vulnerability indices at the most basic level of governance in the Philippines using raw, individual-level census data for the entire country. Our goal in conducting this research is to establish relationships between the derived vulnerability measurements and flood exposure and the impacts of coastal flash floods triggered by Tropical Storm Washi in the southern Philippines in December 2011. We find that exposure rather than vulnerability appears to play a greater role in the magnitude of the losses and damages resulting from this particular type of hazard at the localized scale.

Keywords: Demography; Environment; Climate Change; Philippines

Published Online: 2024/12/12 23:16:22

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