posted on 2025-03-15, 17:04authored byFarzane EzzatiFarzane Ezzati, Qingyang Xiao, Zhijie Sasha Dong, Junfeng Jiao, Alyson Vargas, Vincent Yeh, Thomas Ptak, Pan Kai
Our research introduces the Power Outage – Risk integrated Social Vulnerability Index (PO-RSVI) to assess the social vulnerability of small residential communities to prolonged power outages, incorporating dimensions of outage susceptibility, coping capacity, and accessibility, while exploring its relationship with willingness to pay for emergency power supplies.