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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
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