摘要：We addressed the issue of differential vulnerability to natural disasters at the level of village communities inNepal. The focus lay on the relative importance of different dimensions of socioeconomic status and in particular, we tried todifferentiate between the effects of education and income/wealth, the latter being measured through the existence of permanenthousing structures. We studied damage due to floods and landslides in terms of human lives lost, animals lost, and other registereddamage to households. The statistical analysis was carried out through several alternative models applied separately to the Teraiand the Hill and Mountain Regions, as well as all of Nepal. At all levels and under all models, the results showed consistentlysignificant effects of more education on lowering the number of human and animal deaths as well as the number of householdsotherwise affected. With respect to the wealth indicator, the picture was less clear and particularly with respect to losses inhuman lives, the estimated coefficients tended to have the wrong signs. We concluded that the effects of education on reducingdisaster vulnerability tended to be more pervasive than those of income/wealth in the case of floods and landslides in Nepal.
关键词：education; floods and landslides; natural disaster; Nepal; vulnerability
