Exposure and Vulnerability Flashcards
The characteristics determined by physical, social, economic, and environment factors or processes which increase the susceptibility of an individual, community, assets or systems to impacts of hazards.
It is the inability to resist a hazard or to respond when a disaster has occurred.
Vulnerability
A process, phenomenon or human activity that may cause loss of live, injury or other health impacts, property damage, social and economic disruption or environmental degradation.
Hazard
The situation of people, infrastructure, housing, production capacities and other tangible human assets located in hazard-prone areas.
Exposure
The conditions determined by physical, social, economic and environmental factors or processes that increase the susceptibility of an individual or community.
Vulnerability
Vulnerability factors
- Wealth
- Education
- Governance
- Technology
- Age
- Gender
Includes the difficulty in access to water resource, means of communication, hospitals, police stations, fire brigades, roads, bridges and exits of a building in case of disasters.
Physical vulnerability
It refers to the inability of people, organizations and societies to stand with adverse impacts to hazards due to characteristics inherent in social interactions, institutions and systems of cultural values.
Social vulnerability
Is the potential impacts of hazards on economic assets and processes vulnerability of different economic sectors.
Economic vulnerability
Is the potential impacts of events on the environment natural resource depletion and resource degradation are key aspects of this.
Environmental vulnerability
States that risk is a function of hazard, exposure and vulnerability, and all must be spatially coincident for a risk to exist.
Crichton’s Risk Triangle