How important are the vulnerability and risk assessment for pre disaster management?
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Vulnerability and risk assessment is essential to take up pre-disaster management steps. Prevention, Mitigation and Preparedness can only be developed properly if we know the underlying disaster risks. ... Mapping of the more disaster prone areas.
Vulnerability refers to the potential for loss. It is also the degree to which users or property are likely to be harmed as a result of a disaster.
Vulnerability Types & Characterization:
- Tangible Vulnerability:
Crops, farm animals, industrial equipment, materials, buildings, and infrastructure could all be lost.
- Intangible Vulnerability:
Potential loss of social cohesion, communities, and cultural artifacts.
- Socio-economic vulnerability:
Poor families are forced to live in hazardous areas or in dilapidated structures due to their social standing. They have little cost-saving, even though they can't get back on their feet rapidly after a disaster.
- Physical / Material vulnerability:
Engineering flaws cause buildings, bridges, and dams to collapse rapidly all through earthquakes, cyclones, and other natural disasters, resulting in heavy casualties.
Conclusion: Disaster Vulnerability
- Increased disaster vulnerability increases the risk of poverty and gender inequality. As a result, SDG Goal #11.5 requires countries to reduce the damage caused by natural disasters.
- Whereas all kinds of disasters cannot be avoided, if we all work together, we can decrease their vulnerability and, as a result, the damage caused by the disasters.