The GDL Vulnerability Index (GVI)

IF 2.8 2区社会学 Q1 SOCIAL SCIENCES, INTERDISCIPLINARY

Social Indicators Research Pub Date : 2024-08-17 DOI:10.1007/s11205-024-03399-4

Jeroen Smits, Janine Huisman

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Abstract

In this paper we present the GDL Vulnerability Index (GVI), a new composite index to monitor and analyse the human components of vulnerability to climate change, natural disasters, and other kinds of shocks, for societies and geographic areas across the globe. The GVI is a simple and flexible index designed for use by experts as well as non-experts in the climate field, including researchers, (local) politicians, NGO’s, journalists, advocacy groups and grassroot movements. The GVI is based on an additive formula that summarizes the essence of seven socioeconomic dimensions of vulnerability into a single number. This formula approach sets this index apart from other existing indices. Any person who knows the values of the underlying indicators can compute the vulnerability score of an area by filling in these values in the GVI formula. Validity tests show that the data-driven GVI measures the vulnerability dimensions coping capacity, adaptive capacity and susceptibility as well as major expert-based indices. This offers great prospects for use in situations where no other vulnerability information is available. Here we explain the construction of the GVI, test its validity and present GVI values for (almost) all countries of the world and for major global regions.

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GDL 脆弱性指数 (GVI)

在本文中，我们介绍了 GDL 脆弱性指数（GVI），这是一个新的综合指数，用于监测和分析全球社会和地理区域在气候变化、自然灾害和其他冲击面前的脆弱性的人为因素。全球脆弱性指数是一个简单而灵活的指数，设计用于气候领域的专家和非专家，包括研究人员、（地方）政治家、非政府组织、记者、宣传团体和基层运动。全球脆弱性指数基于一个加法公式，将脆弱性的七个社会经济方面的本质概括为一个数字。这一公式方法使该指数有别于其他现有指数。任何人只要知道基本指标的数值，就可以在全球脆弱性指数公式中填入这些数值，计算出一个地区的脆弱性得分。有效性测试表明，数据驱动的全球脆弱性指数在脆弱性的应对能力、适应能力和易感性方面的测量结果与主要的专家指数相同。这为在没有其他脆弱性信息的情况下使用提供了广阔的前景。在此，我们将解释全球脆弱性指数的构造，测试其有效性，并提供全球（几乎）所有国家和全球主要地区的全球脆弱性指数值。

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Social Indicators Research Multiple-

CiteScore

6.30

自引率

6.50%

发文量

174

期刊介绍： Since its foundation in 1974, Social Indicators Research has become the leading journal on problems related to the measurement of all aspects of the quality of life. The journal continues to publish results of research on all aspects of the quality of life and includes studies that reflect developments in the field. It devotes special attention to studies on such topics as sustainability of quality of life, sustainable development, and the relationship between quality of life and sustainability. The topics represented in the journal cover and involve a variety of segmentations, such as social groups, spatial and temporal coordinates, population composition, and life domains. The journal presents empirical, philosophical and methodological studies that cover the entire spectrum of society and are devoted to giving evidences through indicators. It considers indicators in their different typologies, and gives special attention to indicators that are able to meet the need of understanding social realities and phenomena that are increasingly more complex, interrelated, interacted and dynamical. In addition, it presents studies aimed at defining new approaches in constructing indicators.