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Types of Vulnerabilty

Types of vulnerability include physical, economic, social, and attitudinal vulnerability. Physical vulnerability depends on proximity to hazards like coastlines, fault lines, or unstable hills. Economic vulnerability is assessed by income diversity, access to resources, and availability of fallback options. Socially vulnerable communities have weak family structures, unequal participation, and discrimination. Attitudinal vulnerability involves negative attitudes toward change, dependence on others, lack of variety in livelihoods, and reduced cooperation.

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Types of Vulnerabilty

Types of vulnerability include physical, economic, social, and attitudinal vulnerability. Physical vulnerability depends on proximity to hazards like coastlines, fault lines, or unstable hills. Economic vulnerability is assessed by income diversity, access to resources, and availability of fallback options. Socially vulnerable communities have weak family structures, unequal participation, and discrimination. Attitudinal vulnerability involves negative attitudes toward change, dependence on others, lack of variety in livelihoods, and reduced cooperation.

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Types Of Vulnerability

A set of prevailing conditions which adversely affect the community’s ability to prevent,
mitigate, prepare for or respond to a hazard. Absence of coping strategies is also a part of
vulnerability and has to be considered in vulnerability assessment e.g. living in hazard prone
locations like near to a sea or river, above the fault lines, at the base of a mountain etc.

Physical Vulnerability
The physical vulnerability of an area also depends on its geographic proximity to the source
and origin of the disasters e.g. if an area lies near the coast lines, fault lines, unstable hills
etc. it makes the area more vulnerable to disasters as compared to an area that is far away
from the origin of the disaster. Physical vulnerability includes the ​difficulty in access to water
resources, means of communications, hospitals, police stations, fire brigades, roads, bridges
and exits of a building or/an area, in case of disasters. Furthermore, the lack of proper
planning and implementation in ​construction of residential and commercial buildings ​results
in buildings that are weaker and vulnerable in earthquakes, floods, landslides and other
hazards.

Economic Vulnerability
Economic vulnerability of a community can be assessed by determining how varied its
sources of income are, the ease of access and control over means of production (e.g.
farmland, livestock, irrigation, capital etc.), adequacy of economic fall back mechanisms and
the availability of natural resources in the area.

Social Vulnerability
A socially vulnerable community has weak ​family structures​, ​lack of leadership for decision
making and conflict resolution, ​unequal participation in decision making, ​weak or no
community organizations​, and the one in which people are ​discriminated on racial, ethnic,
linguistic or religious basis. Other social factors such as ​culture​, ​tradition​, ​religion​,​local
norms and values​, ​economic standard​, and ​political accountability also play a vital role
determining the social vulnerability of a community

Social vulnerability to natural phenomena is greatest among the poorest people in


developing countries owing to a lack of information and resources with which to take the
appropriate measures. Within this group, children, women and the elderly are considered to
be the most vulnerable. To reduce social vulnerability, all of the above factors must be
addressed but this requires knowledge and understanding of the local conditions, which can
– in most cases – only be provided by local actors.

Attitudinal Vulnerability
A community which has negative attitude towards change and lacks initiative in life
resultantly become more and more dependent on external support. They cannot act
independently. Their sources of livelihood do not have variety, lacks entrepreneurship and do
not possess the concept of collectivism. This brings about disunity and individualism in the
society. Thus, they become victims of conflicts, hopelessness and pessimism which reduces
their capacity of coping with a disaster.

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