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Capital assets framework for analysing household vulnerability during disaster
- Source :
- Disasters
- Publication Year :
- 2019
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Abstract
- This paper examines the vulnerability of households to disasters, using an asset vulnerability framework to represent livelihoods. Such frameworks are widely employed to analyse household poverty and focus on living conditions and well-being rather than money-metric measures of consumption and income. The conceptualisation of household vulnerability is a challenge in current studies on coping with disasters. The paper considers whether a capital assets framework is useful in identifying and assessing household vulnerability in the context of the Wenchuan earthquake in China in 2008. The framework has five categories of assets (financial, human, natural, physical, and social capital) and attempts to measure the resilience and vulnerability of households. When applied to a major disaster, asset-based methods face the problem of heterogeneity of the population, such as with regard to livelihood type or residence. Moreover, the effect of external interventions, such as the provision of relief assistance, must be taken into account.
- Subjects :
- Paper
Coping (psychology)
China
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
household vulnerability
Population
0211 other engineering and technologies
Poison control
02 engineering and technology
capital assets
01 natural sciences
Vulnerable Populations
Disasters
Earthquakes
Humans
education
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
021110 strategic, defence & security studies
education.field_of_study
Family Characteristics
Public economics
Poverty
disaster assessment
General Social Sciences
Livelihood
Socioeconomic Factors
Wenchuan earthquake
Papers
General Earth and Planetary Sciences
Capital asset
Residence
Business
Social capital
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14677717
- Volume :
- 44
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Disasters
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....d375c7317851e3b3a7fef3d18a921b7c