Community Based Vulnerability Assessment - MDC

Community Based Vulnerability Assessment A Guide to Engaging Communities in Understanding Social and Physical Vulnerability to Disasters Emergency Preparedness Demonstration Project March 2009. Emergency Demonstration Project Partners UNC Institute for the Environment 100 Miller Hall, CB #1105, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-1105. Phone: | Fax: Email: | MDC, Inc. PO Box 17268, Chapel Hill, NC 27516-7268. Phone: (919) 968-4531 | Fax: (919) 929-8557. Email: | Vulnerability Assessment : Step-By-Step Guidebook Acknowledgements This guidebook was made possible by a generous grant from the Federal Emergency Manage- ment Agency (FEMA). The grant funded the Emergency Preparedness Demonstration Project, from which this guidebook was developed. In particular, we would like to thank Ralph Swisher of FEMA for his support of this project and his dedication to emergency preparedness. We would also like to thank Susan Fowler, Bill Hoffman, and Barbara Wyckoff-Baird for their expertise and invaluable role as facilitators in the communities that participated in the demonstration.

Sep 05, 2005 · a community may choose to conduct a more sophisticated analysis, using in-house GIS capabili-ties to generate original maps and more detailed and up-to-date analysis of vulnerable popula-tions. The Community Based Vulnerability Assessment Process • • • • • • •

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