A theoretical and methodological essay on the concept of vulnerability.

This paper presents a bibliographical review onthe concept and methods of identifying vulnerabilityin urban areas. From systematic bibliographicsearches, the main concepts that orbit around vulnerabilityare defined, as well as their concretionaround the most disadvantaged groups or groupssuch as wom...

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Main Authors: Palacios García, Antonio, Mateos, Pablo, Hidalgo Giralt, Carmen
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Published: Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León 2018
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Mateos, Pablo
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description This paper presents a bibliographical review onthe concept and methods of identifying vulnerabilityin urban areas. From systematic bibliographicsearches, the main concepts that orbit around vulnerabilityare defined, as well as their concretionaround the most disadvantaged groups or groupssuch as women, children, the elderly or immigrants.Subsequently, the causes that are usuallypresented to explain the phenomenon and its differentvariants or typologies, environmental, social,economic, residential or subjective, are analyzed.In addition, it also outlines the main methods that,from variables and indices, have been formulatedto try to measure and visualize socio-spatialinequalities in a multidimensional way. Finally,geodemographic analysis is presented as anotherapproach to the analysis of socio-spatial differentiationfrom Sociology and Urban geography.
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physical CONTEXTO. Revista de la Facultad de Arquitectura de la Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León; Vol. 12 No. 17 (2018): CONTEXTO; 109-122
CONTEXTO. Revista de la Facultad de Arquitectura de la Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León; Vol. 12 Núm. 17 (2018): CONTEXTO; 109-122
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spelling contexto-article-1852024-10-01T05:37:32Z A theoretical and methodological essay on the concept of vulnerability. Palacios García, Antonio Mateos, Pablo Hidalgo Giralt, Carmen Vulnerability Social vulnerability Social vulnerability index. This paper presents a bibliographical review onthe concept and methods of identifying vulnerabilityin urban areas. From systematic bibliographicsearches, the main concepts that orbit around vulnerabilityare defined, as well as their concretionaround the most disadvantaged groups or groupssuch as women, children, the elderly or immigrants.Subsequently, the causes that are usuallypresented to explain the phenomenon and its differentvariants or typologies, environmental, social,economic, residential or subjective, are analyzed.In addition, it also outlines the main methods that,from variables and indices, have been formulatedto try to measure and visualize socio-spatialinequalities in a multidimensional way. Finally,geodemographic analysis is presented as anotherapproach to the analysis of socio-spatial differentiationfrom Sociology and Urban geography. Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León 2018-10-02 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion application/pdf https://contexto.uanl.mx/index.php/contexto/article/view/185 CONTEXTO. Revista de la Facultad de Arquitectura de la Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León; Vol. 12 No. 17 (2018): CONTEXTO; 109-122 CONTEXTO. Revista de la Facultad de Arquitectura de la Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León; Vol. 12 Núm. 17 (2018): CONTEXTO; 109-122 2007-1639 spa https://contexto.uanl.mx/index.php/contexto/article/view/185/138 Derechos de autor 2018 CONTEXTO. Revista de la Facultad de Arquitectura de la Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
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Mateos, Pablo
Hidalgo Giralt, Carmen
A theoretical and methodological essay on the concept of vulnerability.
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Social vulnerability
Social vulnerability index.
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Social vulnerability
Social vulnerability index.
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