“…Social vulnerability additionally identifies sensitive populations that are less prepared to respond, cope with and recover from a disaster (Zebardast, 2013), such as low-income populations, women, pregnant women, children under 5 years of age, elderly above 65 years of age (Bereitschaft, 2017a;Zhou et al, 2014), and physically and/or mentally challenged individuals (Contreras and Kienberger, 2012). Other vulnerable population groups are people with linguistic, cultural and spatial barriers (Eidsvig et al, 2014), such as migrants (Yuan et al, 2019a), rural population, people without post-secondary education (Bereitschaft, 2017a;Cutter et al, 2003;Eidsvig et al, 2014), high-density population (Cutter et al, 2003;Eidsvig et al, 2014) and public transport captives (Bereitschaft, 2017a).…”