How to cite: B. HOLIRCĂ (2020) Social vulnerability and resilience as social and cultural factors in human response to natural disasters. Case study - the reaction to the floods produced on the Fişag River.
Risks and Catastrophes Journal, 26(1), P.9-17. DOI: 10.24193/RCJ2020_1SOCIAL VULNERABILITY AND RESILIENCE AS SOCIAL AND CULTURAL FACTORS IN HUMAN RESPONSE TO NATURAL DISASTERS. CASE STUDY - THE REACTION TO THE FLOODS PRODUCED ON THE FIŞAG RIVER
B. HOLIRCĂ
Abstract. Social vulnerability and resilience as social and cultural factors in human response to natural disasters. Case study - the reaction to the floods produced on the Fişag River. Social vulnerability and resilience as cultural components of society are already established terms in international and national literature in researching the reaction of individuals and communities to natural hazards. The need to define these components is in the process of scientificdebate, and there is already a paradigmatic framework in the field of disasterresearch. The sociological complexity of the human relations with the naturalhazards phenomena, give rise to new approaches and definitions of the process; there is still the retention in the outline of some dimensions of the social relations towards the disasters suitable for measuring, scaling or observing and defining some laws or patterns, before, during or after the consumption of the impact phenomena in the anthroposphere. The instrumentalization from a cultural point of view of a scientific research with the help of these concepts, was achieved through the historical and current study of the reaction of the communities in the localities located on the Fișag stream in Ciuc Depression.
Key-words: vulnerability, resilience, perception, floods, Fişag.
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