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DOI	10.1007/s11069-019-03820-z
	Evaluating social vulnerability indicators: criteria and their application to the Social Vulnerability Index
	Spielman S.E.; Tuccillo J.; Folch D.C.; Schweikert A.; Davies R.; Wood N.; Tate E.
发表日期	2020
ISSN	0921030X
起始页码	417
结束页码	436
卷号	100 期号:1
英文摘要	As a concept, social vulnerability describes combinations of social, cultural, economic, political, and institutional processes that shape socioeconomic differentials in the experience of and recovery from hazards. Quantitative measures of social vulnerability are widely used in research and practice. In this paper, we establish criteria for the evaluation of social vulnerability indicators and apply those criteria to the most widely used measure of social vulnerability, the Social Vulnerability Index (SoVI). SoVI is a single quantitative indicator that purports to measure a place’s social vulnerability. We show that SoVI has some critical shortcomings regarding theoretical and internal consistency. Specifically, multiple SoVI-based measurements of the vulnerability of the same place, using the same data, can yield strikingly different results. We also show that the SoVI is often misaligned with theory; increases in variables that contribute to vulnerability, like the unemployment rate, often decrease vulnerability as measured by the SoVI. We caution against the use of the index in policy making or other risk-reduction efforts, and we suggest ways to more reliably assess social vulnerability in practice. © 2020, This is a U.S. Government work and not under copyright protection in the US; foreign copyright protection may apply.
关键词	Evaluation Social indicators Social vulnerability
英文关键词	social indicator; unemployment; vulnerability
语种	英语
来源期刊	Natural Hazards
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/205945
作者单位	Department of Geography, University of Colorado, 110 Guggenheim Hall, 260 UCB, Boulder, United States; Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, United States; Colorado School of Mines, Golden, United States; Western Geographic Science Center, US Geological Survey, 2130 SW 5th Avenue, Portland, OR 97201, United States; University of Iowa, Iowa City, United States
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Spielman S.E.,Tuccillo J.,Folch D.C.,et al. Evaluating social vulnerability indicators: criteria and their application to the Social Vulnerability Index[J],2020,100(1).
APA	Spielman S.E..,Tuccillo J..,Folch D.C..,Schweikert A..,Davies R..,...&Tate E..(2020).Evaluating social vulnerability indicators: criteria and their application to the Social Vulnerability Index.Natural Hazards,100(1).
MLA	Spielman S.E.,et al."Evaluating social vulnerability indicators: criteria and their application to the Social Vulnerability Index".Natural Hazards 100.1(2020).