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Pinning down social vulnerability in Sindh Province, Pakistan: from narratives to numbers, and back again
- Source :
- Disasters, Mustafa, D, Gioli, G, Memon, M, Noshirwani, M, Idris, I & Ahmed, N 2018, ' Pinning down social vulnerability in Sindh Province, Pakistan : from narratives to numbers, and back again ', Disasters . https://doi.org/10.1111/disa.12315
- Publication Year :
- 2018
- Publisher :
- John Wiley and Sons Inc., 2018.
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Abstract
- This paper reflects critically on the results of a vulnerability assessment process at the household and community scale using a quantitative vulnerabilities and capacities index. It validates a methodology for a social vulnerability assessment at the local scale in 62 villages across four agro-ecological/livelihood zones in Sindh Province, Pakistan. The study finds that the move from vulnerability narratives to numbers improves the comparability and communicational strength of the concept. The depth and nuance of vulnerability, however, can be realised only by a return to narrative. Caution is needed, therefore: the index can be used in conjunction with qualitative assessments, but not instead of them. More substantively, the results show that vulnerability is more a function of historico-political economic factors and cultural ethos than any biophysical changes wrought by climate. The emerging gendered vulnerability picture revealed extremes of poverty and a lack of capacity to cope with contemporary environmental and social stresses.
- Subjects :
- Paper
Adult
Male
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
Climate Change
vulnerability
0211 other engineering and technologies
Vulnerability
02 engineering and technology
01 natural sciences
Vulnerable Populations
Disasters
political economic factors
Vulnerability assessment
Development economics
vulnerabilities and capacities index
gender
Humans
Narrative
Pakistan
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
021110 strategic, defence & security studies
Sindh
Narration
Poverty
Comparability
General Social Sciences
Livelihood
Geography
Socioeconomic Factors
Scale (social sciences)
Papers
General Earth and Planetary Sciences
Female
Social vulnerability
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 14677717 and 03613666
- Volume :
- 43
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Disasters
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....28cc7d70629f68752e08891761153902