Vulnerability assessments as a political creation: tsunami management in Portugal

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dc.creatorPronk, Maartje
dc.creatorMaat, Harro
dc.creatorCrane, Todd A.
dc.date2017-10
dc.date2023-03-10T14:36:29Z
dc.date2023-03-10T14:36:29Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T16:38:32Z
dc.descriptionVulnerability assessments are a cornerstone of contemporary disaster research. This paper shows how research procedures and the presentation of results of vulnerability assessments are politically filtered. Using data from a study of tsunami risk assessment in Portugal, the paper demonstrates that approaches, measurement instruments, and research procedures for evaluating vulnerability are influenced by institutional preferences, lines of communication, or lack thereof, between stakeholder groups, and available technical expertise. The institutional setting and the pattern of stakeholder interactions form a filter, resulting in a particular conceptualisation of vulnerability, affecting its operationalisation via existing methods and technologies and its institutional embedding. The Portuguese case reveals a conceptualisation that is aligned with perceptions prevalent in national government bureaucracies and the exclusion of local stakeholders owing to selected methodologies and assessment procedures. The decisions taken by actors involved in these areas affect how vulnerability is assessed, and ultimately which vulnerability reduction policies will be recommended in the appraisal.
dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/129482
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/129029
dc.languageen
dc.publisherWiley
dc.rightsLimited Access
dc.sourcePronk, Maartje; Maat, Harro; Crane, Todd A. 2017. Vulnerability assessments as a political creation: tsunami management in Portugal. Disasters 41: 728-747
dc.subjectmanagement
dc.subjectvulnerability
dc.subjectportugal
dc.subjecttsunami
dc.titleVulnerability assessments as a political creation: tsunami management in Portugal
dc.typeJournal Article

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