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Three words, one equation
Risk is not a hazard, and a hazard is not a threat until something is exposed to it and unable to absorb it. This opening lecture builds the hazard-exposure-vulnerability model climate risk assessments use, and follows one cyclone through all three terms to show why the same storm produces a fatality in one town and a power cut in the next.
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"Three words, one equation"