Assessment of social vulnerability to natural disasters: a comparative study

Yoon, Dong Keun

doi:10.1007/s11069-012-0189-2

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“…Such techniques in vulnerability studies were first introduced in the seminal paper by Cutter et al (2003) and later expanded to use non-parametric techniques (Hahn et al, 2009). However, to obtain truly comparative results, vulnerability assessments must use the same indicators as different methodologies have been shown to generate significantly different results (Wiréhn, Danielsson, & Neset, 2015;Yoon, 2012). The necessity for broad-based vulnerability assessment (Bennett, Blythe, Tyler, & Ban, 2016) results in a proliferation of vulnerability indicators, each increasing the uncertainty that the indicators in question possess construct validity (Vincent, 2007).…”

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An integrated framework for assessing coastal community vulnerability across cultures, oceans and scales

Aswani

Howard

Gasalla

et al. 2018

Climate and Development

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Coastal communities are some of the most at-risk populations with respect to climate change impacts. It is therefore important to determine the vulnerability of such communities to co-develop viable adaptation options. Global efforts to address this issue include international scientific projects, such as Global Learning for Local Solutions (GULLS), which focuses on five fast warming regions of the southern hemisphere and aims to provide an understanding of the local scale processes influencing community vulnerability that can then be up-scaled to regional, country and global levels. This paper describes the development of a new social and ecological vulnerability framework which integrates exposure, sensitivity and adaptive capacity with the social livelihoods and food security approaches. It also measures community flexibility to understand better the adaptive capacity of different levels of community organization. The translation of the conceptual framework to an implementable method is described and its application in a number of "hotspot" countries, where ocean waters are warming faster than the rest of the world, is presented. Opportunities for cross-cultural comparisons to uncover similarities and differences in vulnerability and adaptation patterns among the study's coastal communities, which can provide accelerated learning mechanisms to other coastal regions, are highlighted. The social and ecological framework and the associated survey approach allow for future integration of local-level vulnerability data with ecological and oceanographic models.

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An integrated framework for assessing coastal community vulnerability across cultures, oceans and scales

Aswani

Howard

Gasalla

et al. 2018

Climate and Development

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“…Vulnerability is defined as the conditions determined by physical, social, economic, environmental factors or processes, which increase the susceptibility of a community to the impact of hazards (UN/ISDR 2004). Nowadays, the research of the vulnerability system can be divided into four main components: social vulnerability (Anderson, 2005;Yoon, 2012), economic vulnerability (Fuchs, 2009;Kienberger, 2012), environmental vulnerability (Barnett et al, 2008;Boruff and Cutter, 2007) and physical vulnerability (Luna et al, 2011;Kappes et al, 2012;Totschnig and Fuchs, 2013). Social vulnerability is defined as "the characteristics of a person or group and their situation that influence their capacity to anticipate, cope with, resist and recover from the impact of a natural hazard" (Blaikie et al, 1994;Weichselgartner, 2001;Wisner, 2003).…”

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Analysis of human vulnerability to the extreme rainfall event on 21–22 July 2012 in Beijing, China

Liu

Wang

2013

Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci.

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Abstract. The aim of this study is to characterize the extreme rainfall event on 21-22 July 2012 in Beijing, and its impact on human vulnerability. Based on the available meteorological and rainfall data from Beijing meteorological stations and Surface Weather Observation Stations, the study draws hourly rainfall maps to simulate the rainfall amount and spatial distribution. Using these maps, this paper provides a quantitative analysis of the impact of the temporal and spatial characteristics of rainfall on the vulnerability of three population groups, according to age, gender and total number of victims. The results of three linear regression models indicate the different effects of extreme rainfall parameters on victims with different characteristics. The analysis of victim data in this extreme rainfall event represents the distribution and characteristics of victims in the eight affected districts, and concludes that the "vulnerable group" are males and adults in this extreme rainfall event. This paper is an initial effort to analyze the impact of an extreme rainfall event on the vulnerability of populations with different characteristics quantitatively, which can be used by stakeholders to prioritize the extreme rainfall event impact issues, and develop contingency plans to address and prevent the human and structural damages caused by the extreme rainfall events.

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“…The impacts of a natural hazard event upon a population vary considerably depending on the socioeconomic attributes of the people exposed to the hazard (O'Keefe et al, 1976;Yoon, 2012;Zakour and Gillespie, 2013). This concept can be termed social vulnerability, but the exact definition of this term, and other associated concepts such as resilience and adaptive capacity, is contested within the literature (Brooks, 2003;Fuchs, 2009;Kuhlicke et al, 2011).…”

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“…a population's social vulnerability, to target mitigation and adaptation strategies at the areas that are both exposed and with high social vulnerability, i.e. the most at risk populations (Nelson et al, 2015;Rygel et al, 2006;Yoon, 2012). An often used method to quantify social vulnerability is based on the "hazards-of-place" model (Cutter et al, 2006) which is a conceptual understanding of how unsafe conditions interact at the local scale to produce a place vulnerability.…”

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“…age, income, health, education level (Adger et al, 2004;Cutter et al, 2003Cutter et al, , 2006Wisner et al, 2004). However, there has been no agreement on a set of social vulnerability indicators for environmental hazards to use within an index (Cutter et al, 2003;Yoon, 2012). The data to include are constrained by the indicators relevance to the particular hazard(s) being assessed, and whether data are available and current (census data are often the primary data source).…”

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A review of multivariate social vulnerability methodologies: a case study of the River Parrett catchment, UK

Willis

Fitton

2016

Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci.

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Abstract. In the field of disaster risk reduction (DRR), there exists a proliferation of research into different ways to measure, represent, and ultimately quantify a population's differential social vulnerability to natural hazards. Empirical decisions such as the choice of source data, variable selection, and weighting methodology can lead to large differences in the classification and understanding of the "at risk" population. This study demonstrates how three different quantitative methodologies (based on Cutter et al., 2003;Rygel et al., 2006;Willis et al., 2010) applied to the same England and Wales 2011 census data variables in the geographical setting of the 2013/2014 floods of the River Parrett catchment, UK, lead to notable differences in vulnerability classification. Both the quantification of multivariate census data and resultant spatial patterns of vulnerability are shown to be highly sensitive to the weighting techniques employed in each method. The findings of such research highlight the complexity of quantifying social vulnerability to natural hazards as well as the large uncertainty around communicating such findings to stakeholders in flood risk management and DRR practitioners.

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Assessment of social vulnerability to natural disasters: a comparative study

Cited by 258 publications

References 30 publications

An integrated framework for assessing coastal community vulnerability across cultures, oceans and scales

An integrated framework for assessing coastal community vulnerability across cultures, oceans and scales

Analysis of human vulnerability to the extreme rainfall event on 21–22 July 2012 in Beijing, China

A review of multivariate social vulnerability methodologies: a case study of the River Parrett catchment, UK

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