Household Level Vulnerability Analysis—Index and Fuzzy Based Methods

Getting the scale right: a comparison of analytical methods for vulnerability assessment and household-level targeting.

This paper introduces broad concepts of vulnerability, food security and famine. It argues that the concepts and theories driving development and implementation of vulnerability assessment tools are related to their utility. The review concludes that socio-geographic scale is a key issue, and challenge. It analyses three vulnerability assessment (VA) methods, using Ethiopia as a case study. Fac...

Household Vulnerability in Austria – A Microeconomic Analysis based on the Household Finance and consumption survey

57 As we have seen at the beginning of the Great Recession, the household sector of an economy played a central role in the financial (in)stability that developed after the bust of the housing bubble in the U.S.A. (see e.g. Acharya et al., 2009; Claessens et al., 2010). Debelle (2004) had already pointed out that it is the distribution of debt that needs to be analyzed to investigate the effect...

Risk, Risk Management and Vulnerability to Poverty at Household Level in Malawi

Wi-Fi Protocol Vulnerability Discovery based on Fuzzy Testing

To detect the wireless network equipment whether there is protocol vulnerability, using the method of modular design and implementation of a new suitable for Wi-Fi protocol vulnerability discovery fuzzy test framework. It can be independent of its transmission medium, produce deformity packet and implementation of the attack on the target system. The author firstly describes the wireless networ...

Landslide Hazards: Household Vulnerability, Resilience and Coping in Malaysia

Landslide is one of the common hazards occurring globally and Malaysia is not spared as well. Over the past four decades, Malaysia has played host to a number of landslide incidents, resulting in significant loss of lives and damage to property. The magnitude of landslide destruction is quite high in Malaysia. A survey has been carried out on 143 respondents in selected areas. This paper presen...