Disaster risk perception and vulnerability

This section will contain a methodology, a set of tools and guidelines, to understand how the use of virtual platforms can be integrated in disaster management processes reducing their impact on vulnerability and how practitioners and people’s trust in these tools can be implemented. (From: The first LINKS project newsletter)

The following schema visualizes an example of information from the Disaster Risk Perception and Vulnerability knowledge base. An example of this schema being applied to evaluate a specific app regarding can be found on this page.

Overview of different vulnerabilities and their relation to vulnerable groups

Vulnerability	Physical/Material	Social/Cultural	Institutional
Accessibility	Access to resources to be connected; physical and digital accessibility to the information/connection system	Knowledge disparities, linguistic difficulties, difficulty to access quality information	Access to representativeness into the system
	- low income people; people with disabilities; homeless people +	- migrants; minorities; low income people +	- migrants; refugees, homeless people; people with disabilities +
Connectivity	The level of connection (i.e. efficient system of infrastructures and services); capacity to transfer moneys, to use them	Capacity to pass information, to be connected with the others and share worries, but also connect hate	Capacity to connect people to the rescue system, facilitate communication among places and solve disruptions to infrastructures
	- remote, isolated communities +	+ women; migrants; minorities; LGBTQ+ community; people with disabilities; minors	- +
Mobility	The ability to move (also temporarily) and the availability of means of transportation, such as the capacity to use them	Mobilize ideas and networks (to increase resilience but also to feed hate and violence)	Capacity to mobilize resources, aid, rescue system
	- low income people; elderly; people with disabilities; women victim of violence +	- victims of hate and discrimination + young people; minorities	- +