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Project 2: Risk assessment for
geohazards
Project Manager: Unni Eidsvig (NGI)
Subproject 4:
Communication on social aspects
Understanding of the
structure of vulnerability and its role in risk according to the natural
science paradigm has been improved through a combination of approaches.
Terms crucial to understanding vulnerability, and risk, in the natural
sciences were identified and explicitly defined. Using these, a
functional conceptual model of risk was developed to give appropriate
context for the discussion of risk. In creation of the model, new
terminology was developed – vulnerability components, vulnerability
factors, and metaphysical realm – that should assist understanding of
both vulnerability and risk. Using the relationship between
vulnerability factors, vulnerability components, and local context, a
conceptual model for vulnerability and coping capacity was developed.
This vulnerability model aids not only in understanding the structure of
vulnerability, but also in the identification and organization of factor
(and indicators of these) influencing vulnerability. Given the
determination of appropriate weight, the vulnerability model has the
potential to facilitate semi-quantitative vulnerability analysis.
Figure 1 The proposed
model for vulnerability conceptualization within risk assessment context
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