Expanding the capabilities of people with disabilities in disaster risk reduction

The vulnerability paradigm widely adopts a resource-based approach for examining disaster risk. From this perspective, the vulnerability of people in disasters arises from a lack of resources. It can be argued that frameworks under this approach focus mainly on the means (i.e. resources) but overlook the ends (i.e. what people are capable of doing or being to cope with disasters). Furthermore, the resource-based approach neglects the processes...