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Vulnerability to coastal flood hazards in Revere, Massachusetts: A social component of risk.

机译：马萨诸塞州里维尔市的沿海洪灾脆弱性：风险的社会组成部分。

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Social vulnerability to disasters is the differential inability to cope with disasters based on an individual or group's social characteristics, such as socioeconomic status, age, disability, language, and so on. This study examines two key questions regarding vulnerability: to what extent does the conventional wisdom hold true that poorer people suffer greater relative damages from storms, and to what extent do other variables influence damages? Further, this study explores how data on coping ability can be used to mitigate damages from disasters, both existing threats and those associated with potential global environmental charge. In addition, this study examines coping ability in light of the larger “social approaches to hazards” project by exploring the usefulness of various existing hazards models in a vulnerability context.; To get an area-wide picture of vulnerability, I analyzed and mapped the physical exposure and social vulnerability of Revere, Massachusetts using FEMA Flood Insurance Rate Maps and a factor analysis of U.S. census data. I then conducted a detailed phone survey of residents of the Revere floodplain. The interview included a series of questions to determine residents' sociodemographic characteristics, their economic and other damages experienced in past flooding events, and their perceptions of future hazards. As the conventional wisdom on vulnerability to hazards predicts, lower-income floodplain residents of this North Shore city suffer greater relative economic damages from flooding. Surprisingly, though, the picture of absolute damages was more complex than expected, decreasing with income after an initial peak. Other factors, including employment status, age, and roots in the city enrich this picture of the differential ability to cope with coastal flooding events.
机译：社会对灾害的脆弱性是基于个人或群体的社会特征（例如社会经济地位，年龄，残疾，语言等）而无法应对灾害的不同能力。这项研究探讨了两个与脆弱性有关的关键问题：传统观念在多大程度上适用于穷人遭受暴风雨的更大相对损害，以及其他变量在多大程度上影响损害？此外，本研究探讨了如何将应对能力的数据用于减轻灾害，既有威胁以及与潜在全球环境负担相关的灾害造成的损害。此外，本研究通过探讨各种现有的危害模型在脆弱性背景下的实用性，根据较大的“危害的社会方法”项目来检验应对能力。为了了解整个地区的脆弱性，我使用FEMA洪水保险费率图和美国人口普查数据的因子分析来分析和绘制马萨诸塞州里维尔的实际暴露和社会脆弱性。然后，我对里维尔泛滥区的居民进行了详细的电话调查。采访包括一系列问题，以确定居民的社会人口统计学特征，他们在过去洪水事件中遭受的经济和其他损失以及对未来危害的看法。正如关于危险易感性的传统观点所预测的那样，该北岸城市的低收入洪泛区居民因洪水而遭受更大的相对经济损失。但是，令人惊讶的是，绝对损失的情况比预期的要复杂得多，在最初的峰值之后随着收入的增加而下降。其他因素，包括就业状况，年龄和城市根源，也丰富了这种应对沿海洪灾能力的差异。

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