vulnerability

is the potential for casualty, destruction, damage, disruption or other form of loss in a particular element:.

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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