Vulnerability 136


Vulnerability 136 : The susceptibility of the population to the type (nature) of the event. In this way, vulnerability represents the susceptibility of an individual or population to injury or contagion (Dorland 1849) or from Gothenberg Group 1: the degree of possible/potential loss to a given element at risk resulting from a given hazard at a given intensity. Thus, it is the inverse of resiliency
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