The creation of vulnerability to natural disaster

Case studies from the Dominican Republic

Bibliographic Data

ID3898631
AuthorsSusan E Jeffery (University of Bath, corresponding author)
Year1982
Volume6
Issue1
Pages38-43
Publication date1982-03-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueDisasters (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0361-3666 • E-ISSN: 1467-7717
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1467-7717.1982.tb00742.x
PMID20958510
OpenAlexW2119963613
LanguageEN
Citations received9
References cited3

This paper argues that natural disasters are not a category of events which can be separated from the broader Issues of development, since economic change can create vulnerability to natural disaster. The analysis of case studies from the Dominican Republic shows how the development of large scale commercialized agricultural production has created such vulnerability by reducing or restricting the resource base of certain sectors of the population. It b suggested that the vulnerable state of a population should be considered as much a cause of natural disaster as the extreme physical phenomena Involved. Therefore there Is a need both for a broader framework for analysis of disasters and for strategies to reduce such vulnerability to be an Integral part of long term development planning

Business · Cartography · Computer security · Economics · Environmental health · Environmental planning · Environmental resource management · Geography · Natural (archaeology · Natural disaster · Natural resource · Political science · Population · Psychological resilience · Resource (disambiguation · Risk analysis (engineering · Scale (ratio · Vulnerability (computing · Vulnerability assessment · Agricultural risk and resilience · Computer Science · Disaster Management and Resilience · Law · Medicine · Psychology

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