Pannacione Apa, Maria Ilaria and Kouokam, Emmanuel and Akoko, Robert Mbe and Nana, Celestin and Buongiorno, Maria Fabrizia (2012) An ethical approach to socio-economic information sources in ongoing vulnerability and resilience studies: the Mount Cameroon case. Annals of geophysics, 55 (3). pp. 393-399. ISSN 2037-416X
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Abstract
The study of the vulnerability of facing natural and man-made hazards, with the related resilient answers belong to the complex and articulate field of social sciences called ‘Disaster Anthropology’. Vulnerability is generally defined as a weak point in facing an aggressive event that is difficult to manage. Resilience is the subsequent capacity for self-repair after a sustained natural or anthropogenic stress. Consequently, the theoretical model of economic resilience is the ability to restore an economic background that can support the gradual recovery of social benefits following a disaster. Moreover, the presence in the territory of different systems of production (natural eco-systems and/or technical systems) should allow multi-resilient communities. The mathematical structure of these economic theorems makes their practical application difficult inside an ethno-anthropological context, as it conflicts with cultural variables of the socio-structural fabric. An example can be given by some urban and rural family structures that are settled around the Mount Cameroon volcano (southwest Cameroon), in which the general psychological pressure increases because of both the constant exposure to natural hazards and the vulnerability arising from its social environment (e.g. castes, forced housing allocation, cultural estrangement to local chiefdom). Therefore, the rational heuristic model to be adopted in this social vulnerability study is performed by several combined analyses that have many interpretive obstacles. In 2009, within FP7-MIA-VITA, the first fieldwork mission for the study of socio-economic development of communities living around Mount Cameroon was launched. This completed 108 interviews across several social groups of different ethnicities and religions. The resulting information is being re-tested and verified from the second fieldwork mission in 2011, for completion of the study area
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Vulnerability, Resilience, Social recovery, Mount Cameroon, MIA-VITA Project |
| Subjects: | 300 Scienze sociali > 303 Processi sociali > 303.4 Processi sociali - Cambiamento sociale > 303.48 Processi sociali - Cambiamento sociale – Cause del cambiamento > 303.485 Processi sociali - Cambiamento sociale – Catastrofi (Include le epidemie, le guerre, i terremoti) 300 Scienze sociali > 360 Problemi e servizi sociali; associazioni > 363 Altri problemi e servizi sociali > 363.3 Altri aspetti della sicurezza pubblica > 363.34 Sicurezza pubblica. Catastrofi 500 Scienze naturali e Matematica > 550 Scienze della Terra > 556 Scienze della terra – Africa (Classificare qui la Geologia, i rilevamenti geologici, la stratigrafia dell’Africa) |
| Depositing User: | Roberto Wiedman |
| Date Deposited: | 13 Sep 2012 12:17 |
| Last Modified: | 13 Sep 2012 12:17 |
| URI: | http://eprints.bice.rm.cnr.it/id/eprint/4195 |
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