Anthropogenic climate change is increasingly affecting every city in the world, including through more intense weather and extremes. Climate impacts risks are magnified cities, which home to than half world's population. Projections show one billion people will live areas at risk of coastal hazards by 2050. Sea level rise jeopardizes cities complicated wind, water, hazards. Potential on wellbei...

Located in the Southeast Asian region, country of Indonesia is one areas prone to disasters related demographic, geological and geographical conditions that trigger both caused by natural factors, non-natural factors human factors. Purbalingga an area Central Java Province which has potential for occur when weather are uncertain. The K-Means clustering method used make it easier analyze group d...

Current approaches of measuring vulnerability to natural hazards generally use a rather static perspective that focuses on a single point in time—often before a hazardous event occurs. In contrast, the paper argues that vulnerability assessment should also take into account the changing dynamics during and after a disaster. This paper provides a comparative analysis of the situation in Sri Lank...

5.2 As traditionally defined and measured, poverty is a static concept. But vulnerability and insecurity are dynamic. Insecurity is exposure to risk; vulnerability is the resulting possibility to suffer a decline in well-being. The event triggering the decline is often referred to as a “shock.” Shocks can affect individuals (illness, death), a community, region, or even a nation (natural disast...

This paper aims to analyze how the terms ‘vulnerability’ and ‘poverty’ can be elucidated in a variety of ways, with different meanings, different implications and their interrelationship. The analysis shows poverty is generally associated with deprivation of health, education, food, knowledge, influence over one’s environment and the many other things that make the difference between truly livi...