Print Email Facebook Twitter Characterizing the spatio-temporal dynamics of social vulnerability in Burkina Faso Title Characterizing the spatio-temporal dynamics of social vulnerability in Burkina Faso: A comparison of Principal Component Analysis with Equal Weighting Author Savelberg, Lotte (TU Delft Technology, Policy and Management) Contributor Comes, M. (mentor) Zatarain Salazar, J. (mentor) Casali, Y. (mentor) van den Homberg, Marc J.C. (mentor) Degree granting institution Delft University of Technology Programme Engineering and Policy Analysis Date 2022-08-25 Abstract Global climate change has results in a higher frequency of extreme disaster events and is therefore a serious challenge in disaster impact management. Disaster risk is composed of several components, such as vulnerability, susceptibility, exposure and the probability of occurence and intensity of a hazard. Vulnerability has become a topical issue due to the major role it plays in disaster risk reduction strategies. Hence, this research focuses on the development of a method to understand the dynamics of social vulnerability. The study area comprises Burkina Faso. Therefore the following research question was developed: 'how to calculate a social vulnerability index for Burkina Faso that characterizes the spatial and temporal dynamics of social vulnerability"?"The results showed that despite drawbacks, principal component analysis provides good insight in de internal and externaly dynamics of social vulnerability. However, large differences are found in the ranking of the social vulnerability score of communes when other methods are used. Hence, it is deemed important to develop more research in the semantic meaning of social vulnerability an thus understand better which mathicmatical approach is the most suitable. This research has found the highest social vulnerability in communes prone to conflict which are hosting many IDPs in the North, Centre-Nord, Sahel and East of the country. A statistically significant increase of social vulnerability was found from 2015 - 2017 in Boucle du Mouhoun, the Nord and the Centre-Nord. Subject social vulnerabilitydisaster risk reductionBurkina FasoPrincipal component analysisHierarchical methods To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:59bb435d-2fa6-4f4a-b128-75a8627c729f Bibliographical note https://github.com/LotteSMJ/Thesis_EPA Repository link Github repository that contains the code Part of collection Student theses Document type master thesis Rights © 2022 Lotte Savelberg Files PDF Final_Version_Thesis_4292049.pdf 16.99 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:59bb435d-2fa6-4f4a-b128-75a8627c729f/datastream/OBJ/view