Spatio-temporal aspects of Disaster Management: Social vulnerability modeling and risk communication for improving risk governance

Description

Although there is no definition of vulnerability, population exposure mapping serves as an important starting point. Accurately estimating population exposure is a key component to catastrophe loss modeling, an important element of effective integrated risk analysis and essential to effective emergency management. This seminar will provide an overview of concepts and applications of social vulnerability modeling, highlighting its varying scales and dimensions and related implications including population exposure mapping from local to global scales, as well as addressing short-term and long-term temporal aspects such as global climate change. Early warning might function very well hazard-wise but if the exposed population is not informed and not aware or if it is not convinced to `accept´ and cope with residual risk, disaster management will eventually not succeed. Through the integration of both long-term visions of future developments and short-term risk assessments and hazard predictions, the risk governance approach can be applied within the overall conceptual framework of disaster management.

Period	19 Jul 2011
Event title	Research seminar at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Applied Sciences Program
Event type	Other