EXPOSURE

AND
VULNERABILITY
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SciEd 221
09 OCTOBER Selected Topics for Disaster
Risk Reduction and
2022 Management and Climate
Change Adaptation
11:30-2:30 PM
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EST POST SHORE

EXPOSURE
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EEL MINT SSSH

ELEMENTS
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BULL KNEE GRAB BEE

LEE ATE
VULNERABILITY
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KEEN VICE IRON MEANT

ENVIRONMENT
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FACE AUTHORS
FACTORS
 EXPOSURE Various elements exposed
• Refers to the presence of people, to hazards
livelihood, environmental services • Physical Hazard
and resources, infrastructures or • Cultural Hazard/Social Hazard
economic, social or cultural assets
• Economic Hazard
in places that could be adversely
• Environmental Hazard
affected by physical events and which,
thereby, are subject to potential future
harm, loss or damage. It may be
possible to be exposed but not
vulnerable.
• Viewed as the total value of the
elements at risk.
• Expressed as the number of human
lives and the value of properties that
can potentially be affected.
VULNERABILITY Vulnerable Sectors
• State of susceptibility to harm
• Agriculture and Food
from exposure to stresses
• Watersheds
associated with environmental
and social change and from the • Coastal and Marine
absence of capacity to adapt Resources
• Human Health
Quantifying Vulnerability
Vulnerability can be expressed
using the following:
• 0-1 degree (0 as the lowest and
1 as the highest)
• Repair cost
• Percentage of human population
affected 9percentage of deaths
and injuries.
 Vulnerability may refer to the
following:

• Disregard for environmental

management
• Poorly-planned communities
• Poorly-constructed
infrastructures and homes
• Lack of public information
and awareness on
preparedness and risk
• Resistance and resilience
 FACTORS OF
VULNERABILITY
1. PHYSICAL
• poor design and
construction of buildings

• unregulated land
use planning
 2. SOCIAL
Most Vulnerable population:

• People with disabilities

• Children
• Seniors
• Medication dependent individuals • Ethnic minorities, aboriginal or
(diabetic, schizophrenics) indigenous people
• Hopeless or street people
• Women, especially • Incarcerated individuals
those who are single, • Marginalized groups
single parents and
unemployed
3. ENVIRONMENTAL • poor
environmental
• Developing nations are
management
more exposed and • overconsumpt
vulnerable ion of natural
• Rapid urbanization in resources
hazardous areas • decline of risk
• Increasing number of regulating
ecosystem
informal settlers
services
• Low lying areas, • climate
coastal regions and change
mountainous areas
4. ECONOMIC
• Rural households are
found to be more
vulnerable than those
urban environments.
• the uninsured informal
sector
• vulnerable rural livelihoods
• dependence on single
industries
• globalization of business
and supply chains
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SciEd 221
CHRISTINE L. Selected Topics for Disaster
Risk Reduction and
VILLA Management and Climate
Change Adaptation
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