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Vulnerability approach and mapping methodologies. Mitigation measures
Authors: Sapountzaki, Kalliopi
Dandoulaki, Miranta
Reviewer: Xanthopoulos, Gavriil
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Abstract:
The chapter highlights "vulnerability" as the decisive factor in disaster losses and the most important factor in risk management. It first presents the wide range of vulnerability actors and forms (from individual to country and regional vulnerability) and comments on the structural causes or 'vulnerability syndromes' linked to issues of political economy and social pathologies (e.g. stages of development - underdevelopment, rapid urbanisation, poverty). This is followed by a discussion of the schools of thought on the vulnerability-risk relationship and the quantitative approaches to vulnerability with indicators that serve the needs of grading and mapping vulnerability at different scales of space. Vulnerability is treated as a dynamic property that changes as the management phases evolve. The chapter concludes with measures, policies, plans and procedures to reduce it. Empirical examples show where and when each tool is appropriate.
Type: Chapter
Creation Date: 18-05-2016
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License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/gr
Handle http://hdl.handle.net/11419/6301
Bibliographic Reference: Sapountzaki, K., & Dandoulaki, M. (2016). Vulnerability approach and mapping methodologies. Mitigation measures [Chapter]. In Sapountzaki, K., & Dandoulaki, M. 2016. Risks and disasters [Undergraduate textbook]. Kallipos, Open Academic Editions. https://hdl.handle.net/11419/6301
Language: Greek
Is Part of: Risks and disasters