Vulnerability, resilience, hazard, risk, damage, and loss: a socio-ecological framework for natural disaster analysis
Evaluating socio-economic losses due to natural disasters is a challenging task because of the combined complexity of the social and ecological systems affected. However, also under pressure from the expected effects of climate change, evaluating the socio-economic costs of natural catastrophes has...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Copernicus Publications
2016-02-01
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| Series: | Web Ecology |
| Online Access: | http://www.web-ecol.net/16/59/2016/we-16-59-2016.pdf |
| Summary: | Evaluating socio-economic losses due to natural disasters
is a challenging task because of the combined complexity of the social and
ecological systems affected. However, also under pressure from the expected
effects of climate change, evaluating the socio-economic costs of natural
catastrophes has become a vital need for policy makers, urban planners, and
private agents (such as insurance companies and banks). This paper suggests
a general framework encompassing all the important concepts which should be
taken into account by the above agents in the assessment of natural
disasters. In particular, we propose a simple and consistent set of
relationships among vulnerability, resilience, hazard, risk, damage, and
loss which can guide socio-economic assessment. |
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| ISSN: | 2193-3081 1399-1183 |