What is Vulnerability?
Vulnerability has more to do than what happens direct from a disaster. It involves social and environmental factors that influence people’s capabilities in dealing with challenging events-for instance, natural hazards.

Types of Vulnerability:-
1.Tangible Vulnerability: Potential loss of crops, livestock, machinery, equipment, buildings, and infrastructure.

2.Intangible Vulnerability: Potential loss of social cohesion, community structures, cultural artifacts.

3.Socioeconomic vulnerability Poor family is socially positioned to live in hazard-prone zones, or dilapidated structures. They have low savings so after disaster they cannot get back on their feet quickly.

4.Physical / Material vulnerability: Engineering weaknesses which causes building/ bridges / dams to collapse quickly during earthquakes, cyclones et al, causing heavy casualties. Similarly, lack of building codes, hotel/homes built in flood, cyclone or earthquake prone areas is more vulnerable.

5.Motivational/Attitudinal Vulnerability: Communities with fatalistic or dependent ideologies may be more vulnerable because they can’t cooperate or recover successfully after the disaster.

6.Social/Organizational Vulnerability: Where there is a division on grounds of race, religion, and class or caste. The relief items are deprived to those on the lower rungs. Example: Bihar Kosi river floods and the lot of the scheduled castes villages concentrated.