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A 2002 paper then applied a vulnerability indexing model to analysis of vulnerability to sea level rise for a US coastal community. [18] At a 2008 Capacity Building Seminar at Oxford, the "Climate Vulnerability Index" [1] was presented with an application to the protection of tourist economies, which may be important to small island states and ...
A vulnerability assessment is the process of identifying, quantifying, and prioritizing (or ranking) the vulnerabilities in a system. Examples of systems for which vulnerability assessments are performed include, but are not limited to, information technology systems, energy supply systems, water supply systems, transportation systems, and communication systems.
The CVSS assessment measures three areas of concern: base metrics for qualities intrinsic to a vulnerability, temporal metrics for characteristics that evolve over the lifetime of vulnerability, and; environmental metrics for vulnerabilities that depend on a particular implementation or environment.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assessment framework is based on the understanding that climate risk emerges from the interaction of three risk factors: hazards, vulnerability and exposure. In this framework, climate risks are also described in five sets of major risks: [9]: 2417 unique and threatened systems
The risk equation shows that disaster risk is a product of hazard, exposure, and climate change vulnerability (where 'x' represents interaction between the components). [ 8 ] Disaster risk is the potential loss of life, injury, or destroyed or damaged assets that could impact a society or community.
Gilbert Fowler White (November 26, 1911 – October 5, 2006) was a prominent American geographer, sometimes termed the "father of floodplain management" and the "leading environmental geographer of the 20th century" (Wescoat, 2006).
Risk is the lack of certainty about the outcome of making a particular choice. Statistically, the level of downside risk can be calculated as the product of the probability that harm occurs (e.g., that an accident happens) multiplied by the severity of that harm (i.e., the average amount of harm or more conservatively the maximum credible amount of harm).
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