Introduction: Why Vulnerability Still Matters

• Main Authors: Hilhorst, Dorothea, Bankoff, Greg
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2022
• Subjects: Climate; Development Studies; Emergency and Disaster Management; Environmental Sciences; Environmental Studies; Human Ecology; Political Science; Public Affairs, Public Policy and Public Administration; Social and Behavioral Sciences
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/history-faculty-pubs/110; https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003219453
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

We think vulnerability still matters or, at least, we think it matters to ask the question of whether it still matters. Vulnerability has been the key concept of disaster studies for a long time. What may be dubbed the ‘iron law’ of disaster studies stipulates that disasters cannot be equated to the...