Correction to: Arabian Journal of Geosciences

https://doi.org/10.1007/s12517-017-3197-4

In the initial online publication of this article the functional relationship between vulnerability and recovery day has been typed as “inverse” in the Table 1 column four and row thirteen which should be replaced as “direct” because more recovery day shows lack of proper adaptive capacity and therefore it is positively related with misery and sufferings and vice – versa. Given in this article is the correct table.

Table 1 Database under exposure, susceptibility, and resilience classes along with functional relation with vulnerability for the assessment of composite vulnerability