Consideration of economic vulnerability in seismic performance evaluation of structures

Romero, Daniela Zuloaga; Akbaş, Bülent; Budiman, Jeff; Shen, Jay

doi:10.1007/s10518-020-00822-2

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“…In the field of disaster risk assessment and management, there is a broad scientific consensus on the proposal of methodological models that include vulnerability, hazards and resilience, understood as the capacity to reduce vulnerability, control risks and manage uncertainty in potential disaster scenarios (from the Hazard, Vulnerability, Capacity and Risk Assessment model, hereafter HVCRA). In this way, we found HVCRA methods in flood risk management (Kamanga et al 2020;Koks et al 2015;Rezende et al 2020), droughts (Ebi and Bowen 2016;Meza et al 2020), risks in areas sensitive to storms or hurricanes (Lagomarsino and Giovinazzi 2006;Reinoso et al 2020;Taramelli et al 2015), earthquakes (Kadam et al 2020;Lantada et al 2009;Zuloaga et al 2020) or consequences of climate change (van Aalst et al 2008;Dolan and Walker 2006;Ford and Smit 2004;Nguyen et al 2016;Preston et al 2011).…”

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The Social Services Risk Index at Local Level: A Tool for Diagnosis and Decision Making

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The COVID-19 pandemic has had a decisive impact on our society, generating both direct and indirect effects in a multitude of dimensions, beyond the purely health-related, which have conditioned people’s well-being and quality of life. The social services system has played an essential role in absorbing the consequences of these impacts on the most socially vulnerable population. Analysing the social impacts and monitoring the risks derived from the pandemic can favour the prevention of risk situations, adjust the resources of the social services system to changing social realities and facilitate the strategic decision-making process to mitigate or minimise the impacts of potential socio-annual crises or catastrophes. This article presents a methodological process, based on the HCVRA (Hazards, Capacity Building, Vulnerability, Risk Assessment) disaster management models, designed ad hoc with the aim of identifying, on the one hand, the social impacts of COVID-19 and, on the other hand, the areas with the highest social risk in the post-COVID scenario. The application of this methodological process has made it possible to configure a set of indicators based on public databases, defined by consulting experts and weighted by a panel of stakeholders through a multi-criteria method to obtain a territorialised risk index at the highest level of disaggregation of the available data, based on the dimensions of vulnerability, threat and resilience.

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