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Driving factors for social vulnerability to coastal hazards in Southeast Asia: results from the meta-analysis

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Several decades of research has produced considerable understanding of the complex and interacting factors contributing to the construction of social vulnerability to natural hazards. However, natural hazards remain a considerable challenge to poverty reduction and development in many countries around the world and particularly in South and Southeast Asia. The objective of this paper is to undertake a comprehensive systematic analysis of the scientific literature on coastal hazards to identify the factors contributing to hazard vulnerability, to determine the relationships between them, and to review recommendations for vulnerability reduction. With the employment of meta-analysis methodology, 361 social-economic impacting factors to vulnerability are determined, as well as the complex causal relationship between them. Combined with the analysis on the current popular recommendations in the literature, some important insights into the gaps between the driving factors and the coping policy and measures are concluded.

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Acknowledgments

We would like to thank Dr. Frank Thomalla for his helpful comments and valuable discussion on the earlier draft of this manuscript when Dr. Le-Le Zou worked at SEI, also thanks to Professor T. S. Murty and the anonymous referees for their helpful suggestions and corrections on our paper according to which we improved the content. We also gratefully acknowledge the financial support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China under grant Nos. 40971276, 70425001, SRFDP under the grant No. 20091101110044 and the National Key Projects from the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (grants 2006-BAB08B01 and 2008BAC44B04).

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    Yi-Ming Wei

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Appendix: Meta-analysis study literature search and driver coding reference

Appendix: Meta-analysis study literature search and driver coding reference

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Zou, LL., Wei, YM. Driving factors for social vulnerability to coastal hazards in Southeast Asia: results from the meta-analysis. Nat Hazards 54, 901–929 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-010-9513-x

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