'Vulnerability' : a matter of perception.

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TextSeries: Disaster management working paper ; 4/2001Publication details: London : University College, 2001Description: 17 pSubject: Disaster response agencies increasingly use the concept of 'vulnerability' to analyze processes and conditions that lead to disasters, and to identify disaster responses. Because no common definition of 'vulnerability' exists, agencies use the concept in the wat that best fits their usual practice. Ironically, 'vulnerability' is not a concept that grassroots communities use. They approach recurrent 'adverse events' as past of 'normal life', while rare or new disasters are dealt with from a perspective of survival. People take risk-related decisions from a range of alternatives based on local knowledge, past experience, experiments, opportunities and existing coping mechanisms. The degree of perceived risk varies greatly among households and depends on multiple factors.

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Part of this paper was presented during the International Work-Conference on 'Vulnerability in Disaster Theory and Practice' organized by Wageningen Disaster Studies, 29/30 June 2001

Disaster response agencies increasingly use the concept of 'vulnerability' to analyze processes and conditions that lead to disasters, and to identify disaster responses. Because no common definition of 'vulnerability' exists, agencies use the concept in the wat that best fits their usual practice. Ironically, 'vulnerability' is not a concept that grassroots communities use. They approach recurrent 'adverse events' as past of 'normal life', while rare or new disasters are dealt with from a perspective of survival. People take risk-related decisions from a range of alternatives based on local knowledge, past experience, experiments, opportunities and existing coping mechanisms. The degree of perceived risk varies greatly among households and depends on multiple factors.

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