Natural hazards threaten everybody living in vulnerable areas. With the increasing concentration of people, infrastructure and facilities in them, urban areas are becoming particularly vulnerable to hazards (Pelling 2003, Perrow 2007). Hazards become disasters when they impact on human beings and their artefacts. The people and institutions involved include, amongst others, those participating ...

Abstract Energy poverty remains today one of the most important problems for a truly just urban energy transition. In addition, older people living alone are main target groups this problem. research, 525 households have been monitored which 155 were potentially in fuel city Valencia, Spain. latter, presence dwelling, temperature and humidity throughout year. We reviewed literature compared dif...

Although the exact impact of Covid‐19 pandemic on inclusion vulnerable children and young people—nationally internationally—is unknown, historical failures to address link between poverty low educational outcomes have reversed any progress hitherto achieved. This thematic issue speaks challenges faced by, promises made to, people in most circumstances: It brings together a set articles that det...