Vulnerability Modelling
Marco Baiguera (Global Earthquake Model Foundation (GEM))
Ignacio Aguirre Ayerbe (Universidad de Cantabria)
Raffaele De Risi (University of Bristol)
Marta Del Zoppo (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II)
Ufuk Hancilar (Boğaziçi University)
Rozana Himaz (University College London)
Maria Papathoma-Köhle (BOKU-University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences)
Tiziana Rossetto (TU Delft - Hydraulic Engineering)
Mislav Stepinac (University of Zagreb)
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Abstract
Vulnerability, understood as the conditions determined by physical, social, economic and environmental factors or processes that increase the potential for an individual, a community, assets or systems to be negatively affected by hazards, is a key component when assessing tsunami risk. Vulnerability can be affected by human interventions. Hence, the study of vulnerability is essential to support decision-making (e.g., land use planning and emergency planning) for more effective risk management. Vulnerability is most commonly represented through a vulnerability function that expresses the likelihood of achieving a value of a loss parameter for increasing values of a hazard intensity measure.
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