Vulnerability 032


Vulnerability 032 :

The characteristics of a person or a group in terms of their capacity to anticipate, cope with, resist, and recover from the impact of a natural hazard. It involves a combination of factors that determine the degree to which someone's life and livelihood is put at risk by a discrete or identifiable event in nature or society. Vulnerability concept consists of two opposing forces: On one hand, the processes that cause vulnerability that can be observed; on the other hand, the physical exposure to hazards (earthquakes, storms, floods, etc.). Vulnerability develops then from underlying reasons in the economic, demographic and political spheres into insecure conditions (fragile physical environment, instable local economy, vulnerable groups, lack of state or private precautions) through the so-called dynamic processes (e.g., lack of local institutions, under-developed markets, population growth, and urbanization). (Blaikie et al., 1994)

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