Publications related to Vulnerability

The challenges of impact evaluation: Attempting to measure the effectiveness of community-based disaster risk management

Anthony Christopher Davison, Nicola Mary Banwell, Silvia Hostettler, Alfredo Rafael Kägi Trejo

Although disaster risk management is becoming increasingly important in development cooperation, there is still a lack of robust evidence regarding its effectiveness. Few studies based on a counterfactual have been conducted in the fields of disaster manag ...

2020

Vulnerability Assessment of Buildings in Ranau Township: Methodological Design

Pierino Lestuzzi, Noor Sheena Herayani Harith

Structural damage usually happens during earthquake events. This had caused damage of properties and even worse, loss of lives. Usually, the greatest losses were not caused by the quake specifically, but rather because of the fall of the structures. The vu ...

UKM PRESS2019

High anxiety trait: A vulnerable phenotype for stress-induced depression

Maria del Carmen Sandi Perez, Meltem Weger

A great deal of research aims to identify risk factors related to individual vulnerability to develop stress-induced psychopathologies. Here, we summarize evidence that point at anxiety trait as a significant contributor to inter-individual differences in ...

2018

Governing Cybersecurity Risks and Benefits of the Internet of Things: Connected Medical and Health Devices and Connected Vehicles

Marie-Valentine Renée Agnès Florin

IRGC organised in 2016 an expert workshop on 'Governing Cybersecurity Risks and Benefits in the Internet of Things (IoT), applied to connected vehicles and medical devices. In those sectors, connectivity improves both safety and vulnerability, but cybersec ...

International Risk Governance Center2017

Great Balls of Fire: A probabilistic approach to quantify the hazard related to ballistics – A case study at La Fossa volcano, Vulcano Island, Italy

Pierino Lestuzzi

We present a probabilistic approach to quantify the hazard posed by volcanic ballistic projectiles (VBP) and their potential impact on the built environment. A model named Great Balls of Fire (GBF) is introduced to describe ballistic trajectories of VBPs a ...

Elsevier Science Bv2016

Le facteur séisme dans l'architecture vernaculaire : un décryptage entre déterminants culturels, types de structures et ressources cognitives parasismiques

Milo Hofmann

A large part of ancient built environments in earthquake prone areas have been accomplished exclusively thanks to the experience that their builders developed over centuries of practice. Several of the resulting techniques have showed a satisfactory perfor ...

EPFL2015

On the vulnerability Analysis against IEMI

Marcos Rubinstein, Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Sidi-Rachid Cherkaoui, Nicolas Mora Parra, Gaspard Lugrin

Vulnerability is estimated in terms of the effects that IEMI may induce to the services provided by the facility under study. We estimate the vulnerability by considering three variables: the likelihood, the risk, and the hardness. The different parameters ...

2012

The vulnerability of Swiss Alpine tourism to climate change. An analysis of its causes, its magnitude, and its spatial heterogeneity

Cecilia Matasci

In this work, we analyze the vulnerability of tourism to climate change in 53 Swiss alpine regions. We analyzed in particular the impacts generated by changes in climate suitability for tourism activities, snowpack reduction, glaciers melting, permafrost m ...

Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften2011

Climate Change and Tourism in Switzerland : Impacts, Vulnerability and Possible Adaptation Measures

Cecilia Matasci, Juan Carlos Altamirano Cabrera

Climate change is a global phenomenon, but its effects occur on a local scale. An example is provided by tourism. Tourism is closely interlinked with climate change both as culprit and as victim. On the one hand, it is responsible for a large portion of GH ...

Innsbruck University Press2009

Landslide and clinate change : a World Perspective, but a Complex Question

The incidence of disasters around the world and the role of the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR) in relation to reducing vulnerability are reviewed, with reference to the relationship between climate change and landslid ...

Taylor & Francis2007