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risk studies

is not about shooting what something looks like, but what it feels like.

Don't shoot what it looks like. Shoot what it feels like. David Alan Harvey

is the potential for destruction plus the probable level of loss to be expected from a predictable magnitude of hazard.

David Alexander (Alexander, 2000, p.13) distinguishes between risk and vulnerability saying that 'vulnerability refers to the potential for casualty, destruction, damage, disruption or other form of loss in a particular element: risk combines this with the probable level of loss to be expected from a predictable magnitude of hazard (which can be considered as the manifestation of the agent that produces the loss).' (Wisner, et al., 1994).' (wikipedia)

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