Vulnerability And Resilience

Question 1

Define vulnerability

Answer 1

a tendency for an entity to be damaged

Venerability connotes a set of prevailing conditions which adversely affects a community’s ability to prevent, migrate, prepare and respond to a hazard

Question 2

What are the four types of vulnerability?

Answer 2

Physical, social, economic & vulnerable

Question 3

what is physical vulnerability?  give an example. 

Answer 3

vulnerability that is related to geographic proximity
example Japan is physically vulnerable due to its location in the Pacific ocean and is prone to typhoons and tsunamis 

Question 4

what is social vulnerability?

Answer 4

vulnerability that has a negative effect on communities that is related to issues such as ethnicity religion, identity, tradition, local norms, and values 

Question 5

what is economic vulnerability?

Answer 5

Exposure of economies to exogenous shocks

Question 6

what is political vulnerability? ‘give an example. 

Answer 6

vulnerability related to governance and institutions where political institutions I limited in responses which tie into one’s ability to bounce back and respond 
example, Haiti 

Question 7

Define resilience 

Answer 7

The ability to absorb and recover from shocks whilst positively adapting and transforming their structures and means for living in the face of long-term changes and uncertainty

Question 8

what are the two types of resilience? 

Answer 8

inherent resilience and nurtured resilience 

Question 9

what are two things that influence one’s ability to be resilient? 

Answer 9

dependency and spatial remoteness

Question 10

with examples differentiate between inherent resilience, and nurtured resilience

Answer 10

inherent resilience is any positive factor that helps to cope and adapt with natural resources, for example Trinidad and Guyana with their surplus of oil
nurture resilience refers to the management of governments and policies, which is done through sound economic policies, regional arrangements, and negotiating 

Question 11

what is the Bridgetown initiative?

Answer 11

Proposition of a three prong approach to tackle economic challenges, head-on with the prongs being immediate emergency, funding from the IMF for countries in dire need, harnessing the power of private sector savings to drive climate efforts and combat, environmental degradation and a bold expansion of multilateral lending to government best staggering $1 trillion

Question 12

what is an example of small state resilience?

Answer 12

Naru, the Cook Island and Fiji have been transformed into huge ocean powers and have bareheaded the first ever United Nations ocean conference in 2017