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UR2016 - Putting people first: Characterizing and mapping social groups

Full title: Putting people first: Practices, challenges and innovations in characterizing and mapping social groups Ignite speaker: Cecilia Costella, Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre Disasters impact different people differently. The socially vulnerable are most at risk from disasters and consequently also suffer most from their impacts. The assessment of disaster impacts on vulnerable population groups is now possible; however, we do not yet systematically quantify the social dimensions of vulnerability or integrate these aspects in disaster risk assessments. This session dealt with the issues and challenges in characterizing and mapping socially vulnerable groups within a disaster risk assessment framework by considering the various dimensions of social vulnerability (e.g. income disparity, class, race/ethnicity culture, gender, age, disability, health, language, literacy, families and households). It discussed sources of information on social vulnerability (i.e. census, pre- and post-disaster studies, data created in the community, etc.); reviewed tools for assessing social vulnerability (e.g. vulnerability indices, community vulnerability/capacity mapping, and computer-aided/GIS based platforms); and looked at the potential of recent innovations, such as big data analytics, in improving the identification and understanding of social vulnerabilities. Through the session, the participants gained better understanding of the general framework of social vulnerability and why considering social vulnerability is necessary in order to reduce risks and increase resilience.