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.

Modica, M., Zoboli, R., Vulnerability, resilience, hazard, risk, damage, and loss: a socio-ecological framework for natural disaster analysis, <<WEB ECOLOGY>>, 2016; (16): 59-62. [doi:10.5194/we-16-59-2016] [http://hdl.handle.net/10807/125087]

Vulnerability, resilience, hazard, risk, damage, and loss: a socio-ecological framework for natural disaster analysis

Zoboli, R.
2016

Abstract

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.
2016
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Modica, M., Zoboli, R., Vulnerability, resilience, hazard, risk, damage, and loss: a socio-ecological framework for natural disaster analysis, <<WEB ECOLOGY>>, 2016; (16): 59-62. [doi:10.5194/we-16-59-2016] [http://hdl.handle.net/10807/125087]
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