They are regarded as representations of reality, shape particular interpretations of vulnerability and resilience, and are used as a basis for decision-making.
Analysis of the estuaries will allow us to better understand how the vulnerability cube may enhance interpretation of relative vulnerability, and how it may inform adaptation and management strategies in estuaries dealing with the effects of environmental change on ecosystem health and water quality.
A more efficient interpretation of the vulnerability index can be achieved through sensitivity analysis.
Thus, IEVO maps allowed a rapid and clearer interpretation of the vulnerability of the mapped region, facilitating the planning process and the actions in response to an oil spill.
Some aspects cannot be easily mapped, such as specific forms of knowledge and interpretation, the processuality of vulnerability and resilience, the dynamics of social processes, the context of origin, the establishment of contingent interpretations, and so on.
This interpretation of MRIPH as a cumulative vulnerability marker would explain that the differential risk prediction was not limited to the immediate time period after the initial event, but preserved or even increased for at least 5 years.
Since mappings of vulnerability and resilience are performative interpretations of reality, people act upon them (Thomas and Thomas 1928).
The concept of vulnerability has been the subject of intense debate and interpretation among various schools of thought.
In a thorough interpretation of spatialization, a new and different approach is possible: a spatialized or regionalized idea of vulnerability focused on explaining danger from a concrete and not abstract perspective, where the bodily dimension is taken into account.
For example, Gallopín (2006) demands a decision on including or excluding "exposure" into/from the concept of vulnerability, because it is consequential for the course of the research and the interpretation of novel insights.
