TY  - Report
AU  - Victorian Council of Social Service



PY  - 2014
T1  - Disaster and disadvantage: social vulnerability in emergency management
PB  - Victorian Council of Social Service


DO  - https://doi.org/APO-40069
UR  - https://apo.org.au/node/40069

AB  - This report describes who is most at risk of being socially vulnerable in an emergency or disaster and what needs to be done to better protect them and improve their recovery
Executive summary: While they can be devastating for all affected individuals and communities and cause great physical, financial and psychological hardship, for people whoare already facing disadvantage, the impacts can be overwhelming, leading – in the words of one mother – to a “cascade of sorrows”.
ER  -