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| Titel |
Susceptibility versus resilience to mountain hazards in Austria - paradigms of vulnerability revisited |
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S. Fuchs |
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| Sprache |
Englisch
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1561-8633
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In: Natural Hazards and Earth System Science ; 9, no. 2 ; Nr. 9, no. 2 (2009-03-13), S.337-352 |
| Datensatznummer |
250006704
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| Publikation (Nr.) |
 copernicus.org/nhess-9-337-2009.pdf |
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| Zusammenfassung |
| The concept of vulnerability is pillared by multiple disciplinary theories
underpinning either a technical or a social origin of the concept and
resulting in a range of paradigms for either a qualitative or quantitative
assessment of vulnerability. However, efforts to reduce susceptibility to
hazards and to create disaster-resilient communities require intersections
among these theories, since human activity cannot be seen independently from
the environmental setting. Acknowledging different roots of disciplinary
paradigms, issues determining structural, economic, institutional and social
vulnerability are discussed with respect to mountain hazards in Austria. It
is argued that structural vulnerability as originator results in considerable
economic vulnerability, generated by the institutional settings of dealing
with natural hazards and shaped by the overall societal framework. If
vulnerability and its counterpart, resilience, is analysed and evaluated by
using a comprehensive approach, a better understanding of the
vulnerability-influencing parameters could be achieved, taking into account
the interdependencies and interactions between the disciplinary foci. Thereby
the overall aim of this paper is not to develop another integrative approach
for vulnerability assessment, different approaches are rather applied by
using a vulnerability-of-place criterion, and key issues of vulnerability are
reconsidered aiming at a general illustration of the situation in a densely
populated mountain region of Europe. |
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