Emotional and Financial Investment: As Factor Why People Are Attach to Disaster Area

Investment: As Factor Why People Are Attach to Disaster Area albert “abet” banico Philipines
Like any vulnerable group of people, the vulnerable portion of Filipinos does simply unable to move because of poverty or lack of space elsewhere, but also by the investment that they already put in that long valued locality whether they are in the active-risky volcano driven area, coastlines where ocean and typhoon surge are mostly expected, rivers in the rural and urban poor setting, landslide prone localities where mining is actively taking place and other comparabilities. In this case of the study, emotional and financial investment are valued since the emotional attachment produced together with the financial investment put in the disaster prone areas are factors for people, particularly for vulnerable Filipinos mentioned in such areas provided a socio-cultural condition unable for them to move in the moment of actual disaster or on going disaster. This is true is certain way in the Bicol region where an active Mt. Mayon volcano interact side by side with the farmers and to those living in the river system along metro Manila.