Exposure and Vulnerability

Question 1

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.

Answer 1

Vulnerability

Question 2

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.

Answer 2

Hazard

Question 3

The situation of people, infrastructure, housing, production capacities and other tangible human assets located in hazard-prone areas.

Answer 3

Exposure

Question 4

The conditions determined by physical, social, economic and environmental factors or processes that increase the susceptibility of an individual or community.

Answer 4

Vulnerability

Question 5

Vulnerability factors

Answer 5

1. Wealth
2. Education
3. Governance
4. Technology
5. Age
6. Gender

Question 6

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.

Answer 6

Physical vulnerability

Question 7

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.

Answer 7

Social vulnerability

Question 8

Is the potential impacts of hazards on economic assets and processes vulnerability of different economic sectors.

Answer 8

Economic vulnerability

Question 9

Is the potential impacts of events on the environment natural resource depletion and resource degradation are key aspects of this.

Answer 9

Environmental vulnerability

Question 10

States that risk is a function of hazard, exposure and vulnerability, and all must be spatially coincident for a risk to exist.

Answer 10

Crichton’s Risk Triangle