TY - JOUR
T1 - Vulnerability, resilience, hazard, risk, damage, and loss: a socio-ecological framework for natural disaster analysis
AU - Modica, Marco
AU - Zoboli, Roberto
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Resilience
KW - Risk
KW - Resilience
KW - Risk
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10807/125087
UR - http://www.web-ecol.net/16/59/2016/
U2 - 10.5194/we-16-59-2016
DO - 10.5194/we-16-59-2016
M3 - Article
SN - 1399-1183
SP - 59
EP - 62
JO - Web Ecology
JF - Web Ecology
ER -