Disaster Vulnerability. Vulnerability . Catastrophe Vulnerability . Degree of loss (from 0 to 100 percent) resulting from a potentially damaging phenomenon. (Material II - IDNDR, 1992) . 1.00
Vulnerability Study. Study and investigation of all risks and the hazards suceptible to cause a disaster (Material V - Gunn, S.W.A. Multilingual Dictionary of Disaster Medicine and International Relief, 1990). . 0.66
Social Vulnerability. High Social Risk . Social High Risk . Degree of susceptibility or of risk to which a population is exposed to suffer damage in a natural disaster. . 0.66
Vulnerability Analysis. A technique that focus both on consequences for the object itself and on primary and secondary consequences for the surrounding environment of a destructive phenomenon. It also concerns itself with the possibilities of reducing such consequences and of improving the capacity to manage future incidents. (Wikipedia) . 0.64
Disasters. Natural Disaster . Natural Disasters . Disaster . Disaster, Natural . Disasters, Natural . PICE 3283 . Potential Injury Creating Events . Calamities producing great damage, loss of life, and distress. They include results of natural phenomena and man-made phenomena. Normal conditions of existence are disrupted and the level of impact exceeds the capacity of the hazard-affected community. . 0.54