• Communication-related vulnerability to disasters: A heuristic framework 

      Hansson, Sten; Orru, Kati; Siibak, Andra; Bäck, Asta; Krüger, Marco; Gabel, Friedrich; Morsut, Claudia (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-11)
      The concept of social vulnerability has been increasingly applied in disaster literature, but its communicative drivers have remained understudied. In this article, we put forward a heuristic framework for explaining how ...
    • A critical appraisal of individual social capital in crisis response 

      Morsut, Claudia; Kuran, Christian Henrik Alexander; Kruke, Bjørn Ivar; Nævestad, Tor-Olav; Orru, Kati; Hansson, Sten (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-09)
      While there is still a vast body of scholarly research in crisis and disaster management that considers social capital an asset for lessening negative impacts from crises, this paper investigates an underexplored aspect ...
    • Linking resilience, vulnerability, social capital and risk awareness for crisis and disaster research 

      Morsut, Claudia; Kuran, Christian Henrik Alexander; Kruke, Bjørn Ivar; Orru, Kati; Hansson, Sten (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-09)
      Crisis and disaster research has extensively contributed to theoretical, conceptual, methodological and empirical advances in the understanding of resilience, vulnerability, social capital and risk awareness. These concepts ...
    • Vulnerability and vulnerable groups from an intersectionality perspective 

      Kuran, Christian Henrik Alexander; Morsut, Claudia; Kruke, Bjørn Ivar; Krüger, Marco; Segnestam, Lisa; Orru, Kati; Nævestad, Tor-Olav; Airola, Merja; Keränen, Jaana; Gabel, Friedrich; Hansson, Sten; Torpan, Sten (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-11)
      In general, the identification and protection of vulnerable groups in the case of hazards or when a crisis unfolds is an issue that any crisis and disaster risk management should address, since people have different levels ...