QUESTION 8
GS3
10 marks
Vulnerability is an essential element for defining disaster impacts and their threat to people. How and in what ways can vulnerability to disasters be characterized? Discuss different types of vulnerability with reference to disasters.
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7 min
150 words
What the examiner wants
Discuss how vulnerability shapes disaster impacts and the types of vulnerability.
DiscussExplain the different sides of the issue, use evidence, and finish with a balanced view.
Demand-wise check
- 1Risk = Hazard × Vulnerability (÷ capacity)≈30 words
- 2Types: physical (location, buildings), social (caste, gender, age, disability), economic (poverty, livelihood), environmental (degraded ecosystems), institutional≈30 words
- 3Characterisation: indices, mapping, exposure data≈30 words
- 4Examples: COVID impact on migrants, 2004 tsunami on fishers≈30 words
Open in about 20 words and close in about 20.
Answer plan
ConceptTypes with examplesHow measuredConclusion
Where marks usually go
- No types
- No formula
Draw this
- Formula box + vulnerability wheel
Value addition
- FrameworkSendai Framework (2015–30) Priority 1: understanding disaster risk, including vulnerability.UNDRR
- DataNDMA's Vulnerability Atlas of India (BMTPC) maps earthquake, cyclone and flood vulnerability of housing.BMTPC
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Reviewed public-source references related to this PYQ. Same-syllabus references are labelled separately.
- Shakti Dubey · AIR 1 · Page 44 ↗Reviewed PYQ reference
- Aniket Ranjan · AIR 48 · Page 17 ↗Reviewed PYQ reference
- Mayank Purohit · AIR 33 · Page 5 ↗Reviewed PYQ reference
- Aniket Ranjan · AIR 48 · Page 44 ↗Same syllabus reference
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