5 - Flood risk management

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Vulnerability to hazard means potential for loss.

Socially created vulnerabilities are usually individual characteristics of people.

Information, knowledge, technology, political power and representation and social capital all affect someone/a populations social vulnerability.

Social vulnerability goes a way to describing a populations ability to respond and cope with a hazard, intimately linked to sensitivity (the immediate reaction/how big an effect the hazard will have).

Place inequalities are characteristics of the environment and communities.

Cutter et al. 2003