Vulnerability and Global Change

Vulnerability. Defencelessness, insecurity (internal vulnerability); exposure to risk, shock (external vulnerability) (Chambers, 1989).The characteristics of a person or group in terms of their capacity to anticipate, cope with, resist and recover from impacts of a hazard (Blaikie et al).Production, consumption, assets and claims (entitlement theory) (Swift, 1989).Vulnerability is multi-layered and multidimensional social space defined by the determinate political, economic and institutional 31361

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