The Hazards of Indicators: Insights from the Environmental Vulnerability Index

Barnett, Jon; J. Lambert, Simon; Kelsey Fry, I.

doi:10.1080/00045600701734315

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The Hazards of Indicators: Insights from the Environmental Vulnerability Index

Published in Annals of the Association of American Geographers • Feb 5, 2008

Authors:

Jon Barnett

Simon J. Lambert

I. Kelsey Fry

Abstract

Since the early 1990s a number of projects have developed indexes to measure vulnerability to environmental change. This article investigates the key conceptual and methodological problems associated with such indexes. It examines in detail an index that explicitly addresses environmental change as ...

Subject

Vulnerability (computing)

Index (typography)

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