Social Vulnerability Index

Oct-24 : In this lesson, we will study the original Social Vulnerability Index (SoVI).

Discussion / Blog Ideas

Since no reanalysis is due this week, there is a discussion/blog to help think critically about the current problem. Here are two possibilities to prompt writing:

1. Given what you have seen in our reproductions of social vulnerability models (or similar models of adaptive capacity, resilience, etc.) and read about them, do you think it is important to be able to reproduce them? To replicate them? Why?
2. Do you have interests in other applications of multi-criteria models? If so, have you learned any important lessons from our reproductions and readings about vulnerability models which can be applied to other applications?

Reading

Cutter, S. L., Boruff, B. J., & Shirley, W. L. (2003). Social vulnerability to environmental hazards. Social Science Quarterly, 84(2), 242–261. https://doi.org/10.1111/1540-6237.8402002

Rufat, S., Tate, E., Emrich, C. T., & Antolini, F. (2019). How Valid Are Social Vulnerability Models? Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 109(4), 1131–1153. https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2018.1535887 * in the results of this article, focus on the SoVI model validation

Resources

• Slides
• Learn-PCA Github repository contains:
  • PCA_tutorial.ipynb Python breakdown of SoVI PCA method based on PSU stat505 lessons and the Spielman et al study repository
  • PCA_remote_sensing.Rmd Rmarkdown example of PCA applied to Landsat 7 remote sensing data, including knitted html webpage
• ritvikmath Youtube conceptual video and math details
• Data Carpentries Incubator lesson

Reference

Not required reading:

Hinkel, J. (2011). “Indicators of vulnerability and adaptive capacity”: Towards a clarification of the science-policy interface. Global Environmental Change, 21(1), 198–208. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2010.08.002

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