Disaster Vulnerability Assessment in Coastal Areas of Korea

2018 ◽  
Vol 85 ◽  
pp. 886-890 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tae Soon Kang ◽  
Hyeong Min Oh ◽  
Eun Il Lee ◽  
Kwang Young Jeong
Keyword(s):  
Vulnerability Assessment ◽  
Coastal Areas ◽  
Disaster Vulnerability

scholarly journals Quantitative Vulnerability Assessment: An Approach to Reduce Biases in Disaster Vulnerability Assessment

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 383-399
Author(s):  
Shikha Karmokar ◽  
Md. Mintu Mohin ◽  
Molla Karimul Islam ◽  
Md. Rezaul Alam ◽  
Mohammad Mahfuzur Rahman
Keyword(s):  
Social Norms ◽  
Social Structure ◽  
Vulnerability Assessment ◽  
Policy Formulation ◽  
Disaster Vulnerability ◽  
Quantitative Form ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Status ◽  
Agreed Framework ◽  
Vulnerability Score

The cyclone vulnerability of women is much higher than men due to their poverty, social norms and marginal position in the social structure. Reducing women’s vulnerability is, therefore, imperative to improve the situation. However, the present practices of vulnerability assessment have several limitations. As an alternative, this study proposed and tested a weighted framework to assess the vulnerability in a quantitative form. The proposed framework considers 18 indicators carefully adapted from vulnerability literature. The indicator statuses were defined based on their vulnerability potentials and assigned an integer value. The higher the status value the greater the vulnerability potentials. The indicator’s status values were standardized, and their weights were estimated. The vulnerability scores for every indicator thereafter estimated by multiplying its status value by its weight. Finally, an individual’s vulnerability score was calculated by taking the average vulnerability scores of all the indicators. The framework was tested on 140 randomly selected cyclone-affected women from ten coastal villages of Bangladesh. The proposed scores-based vulnerability expresses the vulnerability status with an integer value easier to understand and allows spatial comparability. This framework could be improved further preferably through stakeholder consultations about the appropriateness of the indicators, indicator statuses, and their weights. An improved and well-agreed framework would assist in integrative policy formulation to reduce women’s vulnerability to cyclone disaster. Moreover, this approach could be adopted in vulnerability ranking/mapping for other disasters.

Research on the Assessment of Disaster-Carrying Bodies’ Comprehensive Vulnerability on Variable Fuzzy Clustering

2014 ◽  
Vol 998-999 ◽  
pp. 1227-1230
Author(s):  
Jing Wang ◽  
Dong Ming Wang
Keyword(s):  
Data Processing ◽  
Fuzzy Clustering ◽  
Vulnerability Assessment ◽  
Index System ◽  
Vulnerability Index ◽  
Index Model ◽  
Disaster Vulnerability ◽  
Urban Disaster ◽  
Risk Research ◽  
The Index System

The disaster-carrying bodies’ comprehensive vulnerability is a key to the risk research of urban disaster. Vulnerability is a comprehensive attribute of the hazard-carrying bodies and is affected deeply by society, economic and environment. The index system of the vulnerability assessment is worked out with the method of variable fuzzy clustering. The comprehensive vulnerability index model is structured, and the comprehensive vulnerability is calculated in the following example. Comparative to the existing research, variable fuzzy clustering and comprehensive vulnerability index model are more objective in data processing and the influence of the clustering categories is reduced.

scholarly journals Analysis Disaster Vulnerability Capacity in Mempawah Hilir Subdistricts

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 71
Author(s):  
Nunik Hasriyanti ◽  
Andi Zuletstari ◽  
Ismail Ruslan ◽  
Lestari Agustrihardaning
Keyword(s):  
Disaster Management ◽  
Disaster Risk ◽  
Coastal Areas ◽  
Capacity Assessment ◽  
Small Islands ◽  
The West ◽  
West Kalimantan ◽  
Disaster Vulnerability ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
Disaster Mapping

Data in the West Kalimantan Figures (BPS) in 2010, there were 34 sub-districts in the West Kalimantan coastal area with a total area of 20,066 Km2 and a population of 1,100,000 people or 25% of the projected total of 4.4 million residents of West Kalimantan. Means that people who live in coastal areas including small islands have become the majority concentration on the distribution of the population of West Kalimantan, while having a close relationship with access to potential marine and coastal resources and environmental use. In the Strategic Plan of the West Kalimantan Regional Disaster Management Agency 2013-3018 (2) states that the inhibiting and driving factors are in disaster management in West Kalimantan due to the absence of hazard-prone mapping and safe disaster mapping, especially in coastal areas. The purpose of this research is to find out and analyze the level of disaster vulnerability in the District of Mempawah Hilir. The data collection method used is to determine aspects and indicators of capacity assessment of disasters in the District of Mempawah Hilir. From the results of the assessment of factors A to factor E, it can be concluded that the level of capacity of each village in Mempawah District is still very low. This low capacity value is dominated in villages in Sungai Kunyit and Siantan Districts. Villages that have moderate capacity value are Kuala Secapah Village, Pasir Village, Sengkubang Village and Jungkat Village. Overall villages in Mempawah sub-district are still low on the early warning factor and disaster risk assessment and preparedness development factors on all lines.

scholarly journals Assessing the level of vulerability due to climate change in extremely poor coastal communes in Quang Binh, Quang Tri, and Thua Thien Hue provinces, Vietnam

2021 ◽  
Vol 66 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-150
Author(s):  
Hoang Son NGUYEN ◽  
Trong Quan NGUYEN
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Adaptive Capacity ◽  
Central Region ◽  
Vulnerability Assessment ◽  
Assessment Method ◽  
Coastal Areas ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Medium Level ◽  
High Level ◽  
Very High

Climate change has been severely affected the lives of people in coastal areas of Vietnam, particularly in the poor communes in the Central region, namely Quang Binh, Quang Tri, and Thua Thien Hue. This report focuses on analyzing and assessing the vulnerability caused by climate change in the extremely poor communes in Quang Binh, Quang Tri, and Thua Thien Hue province, including five levels: Very low, low, medium, high, very high. Through the IPCC vulnerability assessment method, which includes three components: exposure, sensitivity, and adaptive capacity, the results in the study area showed that the medium level accounted for 19.64%, the high level accounted for 30.48%, and the very high level made up 37.35% of the area.

A model for multi-criterion disaster vulnerability assessment of economic systems: implications for Vietnam’s bioethanol policy

2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (6) ◽  
pp. 1917-1929 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nguyen Thi Hoa ◽  
Le Quang Dien ◽  
Michael Angelo B. Promentilla ◽  
Krista Danielle S. Yu ◽  
Kathleen B. Aviso
Keyword(s):  
Vulnerability Assessment ◽  
Economic Systems ◽  
Disaster Vulnerability
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