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Approaches to ‘vulnerability’ in eight European disaster management systems

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While social vulnerability in the face of disasters has received increasing academic attention, relatively little is known about the extent to which that knowledge is reflected in practice by institutions involved in disaster management. This study charts the practitioners’ approaches to disaster vulnerability in eight European countries: Belgium; Estonia; Finland; Germany; Hungary; Italy; Norway; and Sweden. It draws on a comparative document analysis and 95 interviews with disaster managers and reveals significant differences across countries in terms of the ontology of vulnerability, its sources, reduction strategies, and the allocation of related duties. To advance the debate and provide conceptual clarity, we put forward a heuristic model to facilitate different understandings of vulnerability along the dimensions of human agency and technological structures as well as social support through private relations and state actors. This could guide risk analysis of and planning for major hazards and could be adapted further to particular types of disasters.

cross‐cultural analysisdisaster managementpractitionervulnerabilityvulnerability assessment

Kati Orru、Sten Hansson、Friedrich Gabel、Piia Tammpuu、Marco Krüger、Lucia Savadori、Sunniva Frislid Meyer、Sten Torpan、Pirjo Jukarainen、Abriel Schieffelers、Gabriella Lovasz、Mark Rhinard

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Associate Professor in Sociology of Sustainability at the Institute of Social Studies,University of

Associate Professor in Communication Studies at the Institute of Social Studies,University of Tartu

Research Associate at the International Centre for Ethics in Science and Humanities,University of T

Research Associate at the Institute of Social Studies,University of Tartu

Associate Professor in Psychology at the Department of Economics and Management,University of Trento

Senior Research Political Scientist at the Institute of Transport Economics

Analyst at the Institute of Social Studies,University of Tartu

Project Manager at the Police University College

Project Coordinator at the Salvation Army

Senior Consultant at Geonardo

Professor of International Relations at Stockholm University

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2022

Disasters

Disasters

SSCI
ISSN:0361-3666
年,卷(期):2022.46(3)
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