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The concepts of social vulnerability and resilience have evolved from integrated considerations of ecological resilience and human vulnerability to natural hazards and climate change. Social vulnerability can be defined as focusing on the demographic and socio-economic factors that act to mitigate or augment the impacts of natural hazards (Uyttendaele et al. 2011). Thus, social vulnerability represents the susceptibility of community to harm from exposure to hazard, and is a function of the sensitivity and adaptive capacity of society. It implies that while such interlinked social-environmental systems are characterised by non-linear relationships, thresholds and uncertainty, the resilience of a group is the ability to respond to, and recover from, hazards and represents an opportunity for innovation and development (Folke 2006). Therefore, considerations of social vulnerability imply a move away from control of stable systems, towards managing the capacity of social-ecological system to adapt to and even shape change (Walker et al. 2004).