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  2. Climate change vulnerability - Wikipedia

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    Climate change vulnerability is defined as the "propensity or predisposition to be adversely affected" by climate change. It can apply to humans but also to natural systems , and both are interdependent. [1]: 12 Vulnerability is a component of climate risk. Vulnerability will be higher if the capacity to cope and adapt is low. [1]: 5

  3. Body horror - Wikipedia

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    The genre can invoke intense feelings of physical and psychological disgust, or squick, and play upon anxieties of physical vulnerability. [8] In addition to common tropes used within the broader horror genre, some tropes specific to the body horror subgenre may include invasion, contagion, mutation, transformation, disease, mutilation, or ...

  4. Vulnerability - Wikipedia

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    Vulnerability refers to "the quality or state of being exposed to the possibility of being attacked or harmed, either physically or emotionally." [ 1 ] The understanding of social and environmental vulnerability, as a methodological approach, involves the analysis of the risks and assets of disadvantaged groups , such as the elderly.

  5. Survivability - Wikipedia

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    Vulnerability is an attribute typical to the vessel and therefore heavily affected by the vessel's basic characteristics such as size, subdivision, armouring, and other hardening features, and also the design of the ship's systems, in particular the location of equipment, degrees of redundancy and separation, and the presence within a system of ...

  6. Climate risk - Wikipedia

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    [14]: 5 Vulnerability is a component of climate risk. It differs within communities and also across societies, regions, and countries. It can increase or decrease over time. [14]: 12 Vulnerability is generally a bigger problem for people in low-income countries than for those in high-income countries. [15]

  7. Climate Vulnerability Index - Wikipedia

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    Climate vulnerability includes a number of aspects such as physical exposure, sensitivity to injury, and a lack of coping and adaptability skills. [5] Understanding vulnerability enables us to make choices about the distribution of resources, the formulation of policies, and the prioritizing, siting, and design of projects.

  8. Attack tree - Wikipedia

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    Attack trees have also been used to understand threats to physical systems. Some of the earliest descriptions of attack trees are found in papers and articles by Bruce Schneier, [4] when he was CTO of Counterpane Internet Security. Schneier was clearly involved in the development of attack tree concepts and was instrumental in publicizing them.

  9. Fear-avoidance model - Wikipedia

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    An example of the fear-avoidance model, anxiety sensitivity stems from the fear that the symptoms of anxiety will lead to harmful social and physical effects. As a result, the individual delays the situation by avoiding any stimuli related to pain-inducing situations and activities, becoming restricted in normal daily function.