ATS1310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Environmental Degradation, Mount Pinatubo, Cloud Seeding
17 May 2018
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Lecture 3: Human Vulnerability and Resilience
Vulnerability
Definition: the characteristics and circumstances of a person or group that make the susceptible
to the damaging effects of a hazard.
AREAS OF VULNERABILITY INCLUDE:
- Social: prosperity for humans well-being to be damaged and disrupted, both individual
and collective systems and characteristics
- Economic: propensity for financial; livelihood loss
o E.g. 19 Guatemala Classquake – poorer people who lived in slums and
hamlets suffered from the highest mortality – no insurance was involved,
whereas middle classes had better homes and resources to recover, insurance.
- Physical: damage to assets
- Cultural: artefacts, customs damaged
- Environmental: Erosion, taking out trees from slope leaving loose dirt, potential for
ecological and biophysical damage
- Institutional: Unstable government
Underlying causes
Dynamic Pressures
Unsafe
conditions
DISASTER
Trigger
Events
Poverty
Limited access to
- Power
structures
- Resources
Ideologies
Economic Systems
General
preconditioning
factors
Lack of
- Local institutions
- Education
- Training
- Appropriate skills
- Local investment
- Press freedom
Macro-forces
- Population
expansion
- Urbanisation
- Environmental
degradation
Dangerous
buildings and
infrastructure
R = H X V
Earthquakes
Cyclones
Hurricanes
Typhoon
Flooding
Volcanoes
Landslide
Drought
Virus / pests
Vulnerability + Hazard = Disaster
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Document Summary
Definition: the characteristics and circumstances of a person or group that make the susceptible to the damaging effects of a hazard. Social: prosperity for humans well-being to be damaged and disrupted, both individual and collective systems and characteristics. Economic: propensity for financial; livelihood loss: e. g. 19(cid:859)(cid:858) guatemala (cid:498)classquake(cid:499) poorer people who lived in slums and hamlets suffered from the highest mortality no insurance was involved, whereas middle classes had better homes and resources to recover, insurance. Environmental: erosion, taking out trees from slope leaving loose dirt, potential for ecological and biophysical damage. Capacity: refers to the full set of skills, knowledge, resources, and links of a person/group to anticipate, cope with, resist, and recover from a hazard. Resilience: the ability of a person/group to anticipate, cope with, resist, and recover from the impact of a hazard. 4 disasters: ethiopian famine, haiti earthquake, hurricane katarina v/s japan 2011. Identify vulnerabilities: diverse approaches, governance, poverty reduction.
