Brazilian researchers combined environmental physical, social and economic indicators to create an index that measures a region’s vulnerability and used it to analyze the basins of the Parnaíba River ...

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Characterizing the science/practice gap / Roger E. Kasperson -- Knowledge to practice in the vulnerability, adaptation and resilience literature: a propositional inventory / Rebecca Morgenstern ...

When Cleophus Sharp was four years old, his parents rushed him to the hospital in Houston because he couldn’t catch his breath, no matter how much he tried. Sharp, who grew up in the historically ...