From social vulnerability to resilience: measuring progress toward disaster risk reduction

Focusing on the overall topic of resilience and social vulnerability, this publication presents the outcomes of the 2012 UNU-EHS/MRF Summer Academy "From Social Vulnerability to Resilience: Measuring Progress toward Disaster Risk Reduction" and discusses and analyses specific approaches or topics related thereto. Within SOURCE No. 17, seven scientific papers present different case studies, such as social vulnerability assessment to natural hazards in Indonesia or risk assessment to extreme hydrometeorological events in Italy.