of vulnerability in the disaster context, produced by Blaikie et al. (2005), is a person’s
or group’s incapacity to anticipate, cope with, resist and recover from the impact
of a natural hazard. It involves a combination of determinants (social, economic and
political) that define the level to which one’s life and livelihood is put at risk by a
discrete and identifiable natural process. Herein, the time parameter plays an
important role. Since damage to livelihood, and not just life and property, is an
issue, the more vulnerable groups are those that also find it hardest to reconstruct
their livelihoods following disaster (Blaikie et al., 2005).