Indicators

Source

Measuring Vulnerability to
Natural Hazards: towards
disaster resilient societies

Social

A framework of indicators of
potential

Environmental

Physical

Access to basic services

Communiy
participation

% voter turn out at las

communal elections

Density

People per km2

Poverty level

% of polpulation belom
poverty level

Local resource
base

Total available local

budget in US$

Demographic
ressure

population growth rate

Literacy rate

% of adult population to
protect against a
hazard

Diversification

Economic sector mix for

employment

Unsafe
settements

homes in hazards
prone areas (ravines,
rives, bank, etc)

Attitude

Priority of population to
protect against a
hazard

Small business

% of businesses with
fewer than 20 employees

decentralization

Portion of selfgenerated revenues of

the total budget

Accessibility

Number of interruption of
road access in last 30
years

Population

Coastal slope

Steepness or flatness
of the coastal region

Geomorphology

the nature of the rock

forming the coast,
depositional and
erosive activity

Regional
Elevation

the average elevation

of a particular area
above mean sea level,
regional elevations play
an important role
inidentifying and
estimating the extent of
land threatened by
future climate change
scenarios

Land-use/Land-cover

Coastal Vulnerability
Assessment of Puducherry
coast, India, using the
alaytical hierarchical process

Economic
% of homes with piped
drinking water

Road network

Cultural Heritage

Tourist areas

Shoreline
change
Sea level
changes
Significant
wave height

Tidal range

Population density

person/square km

% of
cultivated

land

coastal vulnerability to
development

Small island developing

states: natural disaster
vulnerability and global
change

Disaster Vulnerability: Scale,

Power and Daily Life

Workforce in non agricultural

sectors

Number of hotel rooms per square

km

Tourist arrivals

% of
irrigated
land
Fertilizer
consumpti
on/ha

Human development index

Adult literacy

Score for debt

service ratio
Public expenditure
on health

GDP per capita

population by age

% population of old people

% population of children

population by gender

population by ethnic

% population of disable

% population below poverty