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Climate Change 2022 – Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability Open
The Working Group II contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) provides a comprehensive assessment of the scientific literature relevant to climate change impacts, adaptation and vu…
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Explaining differential vulnerability to climate change: A social science review Open
The varied effects of recent extreme weather events around the world exemplify the uneven impacts of climate change on populations, even within relatively small geographic regions. Differential human vulnerability to environmental hazards …
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A Vulnerability Assessment of Fish and Invertebrates to Climate Change on the Northeast U.S. Continental Shelf Open
Climate change and decadal variability are impacting marine fish and invertebrate species worldwide and these impacts will continue for the foreseeable future. Quantitative approaches have been developed to examine climate impacts on produ…
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Climate change vulnerability assessment of species Open
Assessing species' vulnerability to climate change is a prerequisite for developing effective strategies to conserve them. The last three decades have seen exponential growth in the number of studies evaluating how, how much, why, when, an…
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Machine Learning-Based Network Vulnerability Analysis of Industrial Internet of Things Open
It is critical to secure the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) devices because of potentially devastating consequences in case of an attack. Machine learning (ML) and big data analytics are the two powerful leverages for analyzing and s…
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Flood exposure and social vulnerability in the United States Open
Human exposure to floods continues to increase, driven by changes in hydrology and land use. Adverse impacts amplify for socially vulnerable populations, who disproportionately inhabit flood-prone areas. This study explores the geography o…
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Social vulnerability to climate change: a review of concepts and evidence Open
This article provides a review of recent scientific literature on social vulnerability to climate change, aiming to determine which social and demographic groups, across a wide range of geographical locations, are the most vulnerable to cl…
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Critical infrastructure, panarchies and the vulnerability paths of cascading disasters Open
Cascading effects and cascading disasters are emerging fields of scientific research. The widespread diffusion of functional networks increases the complexity of interdependent systems and their vulnerability to large-scale disruptions. Al…
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Devign: Effective Vulnerability Identification by Learning Comprehensive\n Program Semantics via Graph Neural Networks Open
Vulnerability identification is crucial to protect the software systems from\nattacks for cyber security. It is especially important to localize the\nvulnerable functions among the source code to facilitate the fix. However, it\nis a chall…
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Smart Contract Vulnerability Detection using Graph Neural Network Open
The security problems of smart contracts have drawn extensive attention due to the enormous financial losses caused by vulnerabilities. Existing methods on smart contract vulnerability detection heavily rely on fixed expert rules, leading …
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Validating Resilience and Vulnerability Indices in the Context of Natural Disasters Open
Due to persistent and serious threats from natural disasters around the globe, many have turned to resilience and vulnerability research to guide disaster preparation, recovery, and adaptation decisions. In response, scholars and practitio…
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U.S. Pacific coastal wetland resilience and vulnerability to sea-level rise Open
A comprehensive field and modeling study indicates vulnerability of tidal wetlands to sea-level rise on the U.S. Pacific coast.
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Machine Learning in Disaster Management: Recent Developments in Methods and Applications Open
Recent years include the world’s hottest year, while they have been marked mainly, besides the COVID-19 pandemic, by climate-related disasters, based on data collected by the Emergency Events Database (EM-DAT). Besides the human losses, di…
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Q-Learning-Based Vulnerability Analysis of Smart Grid Against Sequential Topology Attacks Open
Recent studies on sequential attack schemes revealed new smart grid vulnerability that can be exploited by attacks on the network topology. Traditional power systems contingency analysis needs to be expanded to handle the complex risk of c…
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A systematic review of dynamics in climate risk and vulnerability assessments Open
Understanding climate risk is crucial for effective adaptation action, and a number of assessment methodologies have emerged. We argue that the dynamics of the individual components in climate risk and vulnerability assessments has receive…
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Global-scale drought risk assessment for agricultural systems Open
Droughts continue to affect ecosystems, communities and entire economies. Agriculture bears much of the impact, and in many countries it is the most heavily affected sector. Over the past decades, efforts have been made to assess drought r…
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How Valid Are Social Vulnerability Models? Open
Social vulnerability models are becoming increasingly important for hazard mitigation and recovery planning, but it remains unclear how well they explain disaster outcomes. Most studies using indicators and indexes employ them to either de…
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An overview to flood vulnerability assessment methods Open
Vulnerability is the main construct in flood risk management. One of the most significant aims of flood vulnerability assessment is to make a clear association between the theoretical conceptions of flood vulnerability and the daily admini…
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Estimating drought risk across Europe from reported drought impacts, drought indices, and vulnerability factors Open
Drought is one of the most costly natural hazards in Europe. Due to its complexity, drought risk, meant as the combination of the natural hazard and societal vulnerability, is difficult to define and challenging to detect and predict, as t…
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A Comparative Analysis of Disaster Risk, Vulnerability and Resilience Composite Indicators Open
A number of potential limitations of the present state of practice and how these might impact on decision makers are discussed. In particular the limited deployment of sensitivity and uncertainty analysis and the low use of direct measures…
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Flood Risk Mapping Using GIS and Multi-Criteria Analysis: A Greater Toronto Area Case Study Open
Given the increase in flood events in recent years, accurate flood risk assessment is an important component of flood mitigation in urban areas. This research aims to develop updated and accurate flood risk maps in the Don River Watershed …
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Machine learning-based seismic fragility and seismic vulnerability assessment of reinforced concrete structures Open
Many studies have been performed to put quantifying uncertainties into the seismic risk assessment of reinforced concrete (RC) buildings. This paper provides a risk-assessment support tool for purpose of retrofitting and potential design s…
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Error Handling of In-vehicle Networks Makes Them Vulnerable Open
Contemporary vehicles are getting equipped with an increasing number of Electronic Control Units (ECUs) and wireless connectivities. Although these have enhanced vehicle safety and efficiency, they are accompanied with new vulnerabilities.…
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Matrices, curves and indicators: A review of approaches to assess physical vulnerability to debris flows Open
Debris flows are natural processes that cause considerable economic loss and sometimes also casualties. The motion of the debris flow is influenced by both solid and fluid forces making it particularly destructive. Although a large amount …
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Assessing vulnerability: an integrated approach for mapping adaptive capacity, sensitivity, and exposure Open
Making decisions and efficiently allocating resources to reduce the vulnerability of coastal communities requires, among other things, an understanding of the factors that make a society vulnerable to climate and coastal hazards. One way o…
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Applying IPCC 2014 framework for hazard-specific vulnerability assessment under climate change Open
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Working Group II Report (2014) presents vulnerability as a pre-existing characteristic property of a system. Accordingly, indicators for ‘sensitivity’ and ‘adaptive capacity’, which are…
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Ecological vulnerability assessment based on AHP-PSR method and analysis of its single parameter sensitivity and spatial autocorrelation for ecological protection – A case of Weifang City, China Open
With the continuous development of society, the contradiction between human and nature becomes increasingly prominent, and ecological vulnerability assessment is an effective tool to alleviate the contradiction. In this study, AHP-PSR (Ana…
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A Heat Vulnerability Index: Spatial Patterns of Exposure, Sensitivity and Adaptive Capacity for Santiago de Chile Open
Climate change will worsen the high levels of urban vulnerability in Latin American cities due to specific environmental stressors. Some impacts of climate change, such as high temperatures in urban environments, have not yet been addresse…
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Persist in place or shift in space? Evaluating the adaptive capacity of species to climate change Open
Assessing the vulnerability of species to climate change serves as the basis for climate‐adaptation planning and climate‐smart conservation, and typically involves an evaluation of exposure, sensitivity, and adaptive capacity ( AC ). AC is…
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Vulnerability of the agricultural sector to climate change: The development of a pan-tropical Climate Risk Vulnerability Assessment to inform sub-national decision making Open
As climate change continues to exert increasing pressure upon the livelihoods and agricultural sector of many developing and developed nations, a need exists to understand and prioritise at the sub national scale which areas and communitie…