Coastal Vulnerability Assessment, Sunderbans

There are seven Ecological Vulnerability indicators considered for the computation of the Ecological Vulnerability Index and the data for these indicators were derived by processing geospatial data in GIS. Sixteen socio-economic vulnerability indicators were selected for formulating the Socio-economic Vulnerability Index.

These indicators were grouped into three categories for the analysis - Standard of Living, Socio-economic Status and Status of Health and Education. The data for these indicators were sourced from primary and secondary sources. Vulnerability indices were computed by assigning appropriate weightages to the indicators and multiplying the weightages with the vulnerability scores.