Climate Vulnerability Assessment

Lecture 01

Why vulnerability is not the same as risk

PublishedVideo lectureWritten by Malika Ratnayake

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  1. Block 1 · video

    Three words, one equation

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    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.

  2. Block 2 · text

    Vulnerability is the part policy can change fastest

    A department cannot move a coastline or cancel a monsoon, but it can put a title deed, a second income or an early-warning system in front of a household before the next event arrives. Hazard and exposure are largely given; vulnerability is where an assessment earns its budget, because it is the term most open to intervention.

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  • Vulnerability Assessment 01 - slide deck

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