Methodological framework to integrate social and physical vulnerability in the prevention of seismic risk

Luis Izquierdo-Horna, Ramzy Kahhat

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Resumen

The huge variety of natural disasters that have occurred in Peru highlights the necessity, due to the social, economic and environmental impacts, to improve national risk and disaster management plans. Hence the need to evaluate vulnerability from a multidimensional perspective that allows the assessment of the social and physical conditions of the region. The main objective of this research is to help improve risk and disaster management plans by proposing a methodology that integrates the assessment of physical vulnerability (based on the physical characteristics of the infrastructure) with social vulnerability, as a result of the main sociodemographic variables. Using the Peruvian city of Chiclayo (located in the district of Chiclayo) as a case study, this methodology has been implemented for the specific case of earthquakes. In order to determine the overall vulnerability of this district, it was first necessary to determine each component, social and physical, separately. For the physical aspect of vulnerability, the amount of debris generated after a seismic event was used as a proxy. For the social aspect, representative and valid social indicators were used for the study area, such as level of education, age profile, permanent disability. By integrating both results, we obtain a global perspective on the vulnerability, giving equal importance, in the assessment of seismic risk, to the individual and infrastructure. The final result of this methodological tool is identification of which sectors need immediate help after a seismic event. Otherwise, if the seismic risk assessment is based only on information about physical aspects, certain areas of the district, that require urgent actions, may be neglected. Finally, this methodology is applicable for the different scales of analysis (e.g. country, region and district).

Idioma originalInglés
Título de la publicación alojadaRisk Analysis XI
EditoresA. Fabbri, S. Mambretti
EditorialWITPress
Páginas69-79
Número de páginas11
ISBN (versión digital)9781784662677
DOI
EstadoPublicada - 2018
Evento11th International Conference on Computer Simulation in Risk Analysis and Hazard Mitigation 2018 - Seville, Espana
Duración: 6 jun. 20188 jun. 2018

Serie de la publicación

NombreWIT Transactions on Engineering Sciences
Volumen121
ISSN (versión impresa)1743-3533

Conferencia

Conferencia11th International Conference on Computer Simulation in Risk Analysis and Hazard Mitigation 2018
País/TerritorioEspana
CiudadSeville
Período6/06/188/06/18

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