Demographics of Social Vulnerability
It is important to ensure that the emergency management agency take all hazards and vulnerabilities in to consideration when planning for a disaster. Disasters occur when an extreme event exceeds a community’s ability to cope with that event (Lindell, Prater, & Perry, 2006, p. 153). Hazard exposure, physical vulnerability, and social vulnerability should specifically be taken into consideration because they can have dire effects on the impact in the disaster. This short paper will focus primarily on the social vulnerability and the demographics surrounding this vulnerability.
Social vulnerability is easily defines as, “the people’s ability to anticipate, cope with, resist and recover from the impacts of a natural hazard” (Lindell, Prater, & Perry, 2006, p. 155). Social vulnerability entails the psychological, political, economic and demographic impacts throughout a community. These impacts can be relatively difficult to assess because they tend to be more of an internal emotion, rather than assessing the physical impacts of a disaster. It important for the local emergency manager to utilize the demographic predictors regarding social vulnerabilities while preparing for and planning all phases of their local Emergency Operations Plan (EOP).
The demographic predictors are gender, age, education, income, and …show more content…
The social vulnerability and demographics are interconnected with the hazard exposure and certain elements of the physical vulnerabilities. Social demographics should be used to ensure that the mitigation, response and recovery phases within the EOP are successfully developed and implemented. If the local emergency management official fails to assess this particular vulnerability the effects could be catastrophic and could prove to be impossible to recover
It is important to ensure that the emergency management agency take all hazards and vulnerabilities in to consideration when planning for a disaster. Disasters occur when an extreme event exceeds a community’s ability to cope with that event (Lindell, Prater, & Perry, 2006, p. 153). Hazard exposure, physical vulnerability, and social vulnerability should specifically be taken into consideration because they can have dire effects on the impact in the disaster. This short paper will focus primarily on the social vulnerability and the demographics surrounding this vulnerability.
Social vulnerability is easily defines as, “the people’s ability to anticipate, cope with, resist and recover from the impacts of a natural hazard” (Lindell, Prater, & Perry, 2006, p. 155). Social vulnerability entails the psychological, political, economic and demographic impacts throughout a community. These impacts can be relatively difficult to assess because they tend to be more of an internal emotion, rather than assessing the physical impacts of a disaster. It important for the local emergency manager to utilize the demographic predictors regarding social vulnerabilities while preparing for and planning all phases of their local Emergency Operations Plan (EOP).
The demographic predictors are gender, age, education, income, and …show more content…
The social vulnerability and demographics are interconnected with the hazard exposure and certain elements of the physical vulnerabilities. Social demographics should be used to ensure that the mitigation, response and recovery phases within the EOP are successfully developed and implemented. If the local emergency management official fails to assess this particular vulnerability the effects could be catastrophic and could prove to be impossible to recover