DOI: 10.1007/s11069-019-03820-z
论文题名: Evaluating social vulnerability indicators: criteria and their application to the Social Vulnerability Index
作者: Spielman S.E. ; Tuccillo J. ; Folch D.C. ; Schweikert A. ; Davies R. ; Wood N. ; Tate E.
刊名: Natural Hazards
ISSN: 0921030X
出版年: 2020
卷: 100, 期: 1 起始页码: 417
结束页码: 436
语种: 英语
中文关键词: Evaluation
; Social indicators
; Social vulnerability
英文关键词: social indicator
; unemployment
; vulnerability
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. Citation statistics:
资源类型: 期刊论文
标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/168744
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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
Recommended Citation:
Spielman S.E.,Tuccillo J.,Folch D.C.,et al. Evaluating social vulnerability indicators: criteria and their application to the Social Vulnerability Index[J]. Natural Hazards,2020-01-01,100(1)