Measuring vulnerability in the dimensions of sustainability. Notes from the under-representation of the social sciences
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The quality of the measurement of environmental, economic and social vulnerability to adverse natural phenomena and climate change is essential for a diagnosis, with a comprehensive approach, of the risks and impacts that allow the development of efficient sustainable development strategies adapted to the socio-spatial characteristics of the territory in which they are implemented. However, scientific studies of the vulnerability of these environmental phenomena are being developed mainly by research areas related to the physical and natural sciences, with the social sciences occupying a clearly disadvantaged position in this field. The results show how this under-representation of the social sciences is favouring biased vulnerability assessments, with incomplete indicator systems that jeopardise a correct diagnosis of the situation of social vulnerability, which can lead to sustainability policies and strategies that are not adjusted to the needs of the territories that suffer the undesired consequences of these phenomena and that affect, with particular virulence, the population with the highest index of social vulnerability.
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