This thesis examines the scalar politics within spaces of refugee governance in Boa Vista, Roraima, Brazil. Centering on Operação Acolhida (Operation Welcome), the Brazilian governmental response to the increase in Venezuelan migration to Brazil, this thesis expands on neo-liber…
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Bangladesh is one of the most vulnerable countries in terms of natural hazards due to its location and population density. Fishing communities of the coastal areas of Bangladesh are an especially vulnerable group of people due to natural disasters as well as socio-economic facto…
The Central Asian country of Tajikistan is the poorest of the former Soviet republics; it is also prone to a plethora of natural hazards including mass wasting, flood, and extreme temperature. This thesis seeks to characterize how vulnerable rural Tajik mountain communities are …
This dissertation serves two distinct purposes. First, it fills a void in the study of the Jola people of southwestern Senegal by providing the first comprehensive ethnomedical analysis of a Jola subgroup. Second, it examines the full range of circumstances that render young Jol…
In this thesis I explore the effect on the lived experience of care workers and their managers in the residential elderly care sector of The Netherlands in relation to changes in and around the sector. Like in most western societies The Netherlands has to deal with ever increasi…
Both Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) aim at reducing the vulnerabilities and enhancing the capacities of men and women when facing natural hazards and climate change. Despite conceptual bridges existing between both sectors, the literature sugge…
Software is still being produced and used that is vulnerable to exploitation. As well as being in devices in the homes of many people around the world, programs with these vulnerabilities are maintaining life-critical systems such as power-stations, aircraft and medical devices …
The Mental Capacity Act 2005, and the domestic law surrounding it, is currently in a state of instability, having undergone rigorous scrutiny by the House of Lords Select Committee. At an international level, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabiliti…
In recent years there has been increased focus on vulnerability and abuse however greater attention has been paid to this in relation to children, elders and in domestic situations. Within learning disability service there has been increasing attention on physical and sexual abu…
The increase in online social network (OSN) usage has led to personal details known as attributes being readily displayed in OSN profiles. This can lead to the profile owners being vulnerable to privacy and social engineering attacks which include identity theft, stalking and re…
This thesis presents a new perspective on the study of past farm success and failure; it builds on the concepts of resilience and vulnerability to construct a theoretical framework which integrates environmental, historical and ethnographical data. The basic framework establishe…
The world is guaranteed a certain level of climate change due to the emissions already released into the atmosphere. Therefore, adaptation to climate change is necessary. Increases in diarrheal disease and malnutrition due to climate change are analyzed for Bangladesh. Relative …
This dissertation examines the interplay between natural disasters, vulnerability, and sustainable development. It analyzes the way natural disasters influence sustainable development, in addition to investigating how sustainability of a development shapes its vulnerability from…
Lack of resources in South Asian countries compel many people to migrate to other countries, some legally, others illegally. In 2005, Over 100,000 bar dancers in Mumbai became unemployed overnight when the state government banned bar dancing under international pressure. Some of…
A natural disaster is a major adverse event resulting from natural processes of the earth that overwhelm local response and affect the social and economic development of the affected region. Natural disasters have been seen as situations that create challenges and difficulties m…
Environmental surprises are bound to occur. Surprise is a phenomenon relative to human perception and is felt when events deviate from the expected or are entirely unanticipated prior to their occurrence. Surprise is induced by uncertainty, complexity, and chaos in environmental…
Progress in human development is threatened by the complexities of global environmental change - a defining challenge of our time. Appropriate societal responses are needed to address disturbances and increasing vulnerability of social-ecological systems. This changing context c…
Liberal feminism views vulnerability as weakness and dominance as strength. This binary parallels nationalistic assertions of sovereignty. Within militaristic responses such as the U.S. retaliation to 9/11, however, we see the cost of refusing to acknowledge our vulnerability. I…
This dissertation investigates livelihood and land use change dynamics in a community at the farm-forest periphery in highland Ethiopia. I use interviews and livelihood assessment data to compare the strategies used by members of different wealth groups to negotiate and maintain…