1. Session 101 Comparative Emergency Management Session 10 Slide Deck

2. Session 102 Session Objectives 1.Provide an Overview of Hazard Vulnerability 2.Discuss the Four Principal Vulnerability Factors in Detail

3. Session 103 Vulnerability “A measure of the propensity of an object, area, individual, group, community, country, or other entity to incur the consequences of a hazard.”

4. Session 104 Vulnerability Distinct between individuals, families, groups, neighborhoods, religions, ages, and many other designations Collective, as in the case with nations, regions, and globally

5. Session 105 Chernobyl Nuclear Accident Ukraine, 1986 Affects felt throughout: –Soviet Union –Eastern Europe –Western Europe –Northern Europe –Eastern United States 60% of fallout in Belarus

6. Session 106 Differing Vulnerabilities Northridge Earthquake, United States –6.7 Magnitude –Less than 100 people killed Bam Earthquake, Iran –6.6 Magnitude –Approximately 60,000 killed

7. Session 107 Vulnerability Components Hazard Profile Emergency Management Capacity Four Vulnerability Profiles –Physical –Social –Economic –Environmental

8. Session 108 Drought Exposure

9. Session 109 The Physical Profile A collective examination of: –Geography and Climate –Infrastructure –Populations

10. Session 1010 The Social Profile Measures the following factors that increase or decrease a population’s propensity to incur harm or damage as result of a specific hazard. –Individual –Societal –Political –Cultural

11. Session 1011 The Environmental Profile The health and welfare of the natural environment within the area of study that either contributes to or reduces the propensity of the affected population to incur the consequences of disasters

12. Session 1012 Economic Profile Financial means of individuals, towns, cities, communities, or whole countries to protect themselves from the effects of disasters

13. Session 1013 Gross Domestic Product $2 Billion in Damages from a disaster Honduras = 38% of GDP Japan = <0.1% of GDP

14. Session 1014 Other Vulnerability Factors Urbanization Rural Livelihoods