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http://dx.doi.org/10.7734/COSEIK.2014.27.6.485

Assessment of Local Social Vulnerability in Facing Merapi Volcanic Hazard  

Lee, Sungsu (School of Civil Engineering, Chungbuk National Univ.)
Maharani, Yohana Noradika (Department of Civil Systems Engineering, Chungbuk National Univ.)
Yi, Waon-Ho (Department of Architectural Engineering, Kwangwoon Univ.)
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Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea / v.27, no.6, 2014 , pp. 485-492 More about this Journal
Abstract
In regards to natural disasters, vulnerability analysis is a component of the disaster risk analysis with one of its objectives as a basis for planning priority setting activities. The volcano eruption raises many casualties and property in the surrounding area, especially when the volcano located in densely populated areas. Volcanic eruptions cannot be prevented, but the risk and vulnerability can be reduced which involve careful planning and preparations that anticipate a future crisis. The social vulnerability as social inequalities with those social factors can influence the susceptibility of various groups to harm and govern their ability to respond. This study carried out the methods of Social Vulnerability Index (SoVI) to measure the socially created vulnerability of the people living in Merapi proximal hamlets in Central Java, Indonesia that refers to the socioeconomic and demographic factors that affect the resilience of communities in order to describe and understand the social burdens of risk. Social vulnerability captured here, using a qualitative survey based-data such as interviews to local people with random ages and background to capture the answer vary, also interviews to stakeholders to help define social vulnerability variables. The paper concludes that by constructing the vulnerability index for the hamlets, the study reveals information about the distribution and causes of social vulnerability. The analysis using SoVI confirms that this method works well in ensuring that positive values indicating high social vulnerability and vice versa.
Keywords
social vulnerability; social vulnerability index (SoVI); Merapi volcano eruption;
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