Title:
REVIEW OF LITERATURE ON VULNERABILITY AND RISK: APPLICATION TO THE CASE OF FLOOD

Authors:
Mohamad Syafiqi Hashim, Sallahuddin Hassan, Arpah Abu Bakar

Abstract:
Given the inherent discrepancies in definitions, concepts and measurements, these have contributed to growing prominence of vulnerability and risk terms in multidisciplinary fields such as disaster management, environmental science and geography. Generally, a common approach to measure vulnerability to floods is based on the extent of risk that communities have to face. In recent years, flood risk has been on the rise compounded by increasing physical, social, economic and environmental vulnerabilities across the globe. Due to prevailing flood characteristics in terms of the magnitude and frequency of the events and associated losses of human life and property, there is a need especially for the Asian developing countries to implement a systematic method towards assessing the multi-dimensions of flood vulnerability in a comprehensive manner. By employing the FVI methodology within a flood vulnerability assessment, this can enable proper measures to be prioritized for the flood risk response among the community leaders, populations at risk, decision makers and policy makers alike