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Classification of capacities:
- Coping capacityis the ability of people, organizations and systems, using available skills and resources, to manage adverse conditions, risk or disasters. The capacity to cope requires continuing awareness, resources and good management, both in normal times as well as during disasters or adverse conditions. Coping capacities contribute to the reduction of disaster risks.
- Physical Capacity: Even people whose houses have been destroyed by a typhoon or crops have been destroyed by floods can salvage things from their homes and farms. Sometimes they have food in storage or crops that can be recovered from the fields or farm implements for planting again. Some family members from the fields or farm implements for planting again. Some family members have skills which enable them to find employment if they migrate, either temporarily or permanently.
- Social Capacities: In most disaster events, people suffer their greatest losses in the physical and material realm. For the rich, they have the capacity to recover soon because of their wealth. In fact, they are seldom hit by disasters because they live in safer locations and their houses are built better. However, even when everything physical is destroyed, people still have their skills and knowledge; they have family and community organization. They have leaders and systems for making decisions and capacities in the social and organizational realm.
- Attitudinal capacities: People have both positive attitudes and strong motivations such as the will to survive, love and concern for and willingness to help each other. Coping mechanisms or strategies are generally considered capacities for survival.
- Economic Capacities: It refers to the ability of the business sector to recover and re-establish the economic community.
Vulnerability:
The conditions determined by physical, social, economic and environmental factors or processes which increase the susceptibility of an individual, a community, assets or systems to the impacts of hazards.
Classification of Vulnerability: Vulnerabilities can be classified as following:
- Physical Vulnerability: is the hazard-prone location of settlement, insecure and risky sources of livelihood, lack of access to basic production resources (such as land, farm inputs, and capital), lack of knowledge and information, lack of access to basic services.
- Social Vulnerability: is reflected in the lack of institutional support structures and leadership, weak family and kinship relations, divisions and conflicts within communities, and the absence of decision-making powers.
- Attitudinal Vulnerability: is seen in dependency, resistance towards change, and other negative beliefs. People who have low confidence in their ability to affect change or who feel defeated by events, are harder hit by disasters than those who have sense of their ability to bring the changes they desire.