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vulnerability
vulnerability Vulnerability is the potential for loss or harm from environmental hazards.
Vulnerability is the potential for loss or harm from environmental hazards. In social and disaster research, it is understood as depending on exposure to harm, how susceptible people or systems are, and their adaptive capacity—the social, economic, institutional, and material conditions that affect how well they can anticipate, withstand, respond to, and recover from adverse impacts.