Determinants of Risk: Exposure and Vulnerability

摘要: Many climate change adaptation efforts aim to address the implications of potential changes in frequency, intensity, and duration weather events that affect risk extreme impacts on human society. That is determined not only by (the hazards) but also exposure vulnerability these hazards. Therefore, effective disaster management strategies practices depend a rigorous understanding dimensions vulnerability, as well proper assessment those dimensions. This chapter aims provide assessment, further detailing determinants presented Chapter 1. The first sections this elucidate concepts are needed define understand risk, show originates from combination social processes their interaction with environment (Sections 2.2 2.3), highlight role coping adaptive capacities (Section 2.4). The following section (2.5) describes different trends therein. Given highly context-specific, definition limited general overview (a more quantitative perspective provided 4). A methodological discussion 2.6) approaches identify assess provides indications how can be explored specific contexts, such planning, central perception communication. concludes cross-cutting accumulation nature disasters.