IPCC Report.pdf - Adam Curry

Determinants of Risk: Exposure and VulnerabilityChapter 2Table of ContentsExecutive Summary ...................................................................................................................................672.1. Introduction and Scope..............................................................................................................692.2. Defining Determinants of Risk: Hazard, Exposure, and Vulnerability........................................692.2.1. Disaster Risk and Disaster .................................................................................................................................................692.2.2. The Factors of Risk .............................................................................................................................................................692.3. The Drivers of Vulnerability .......................................................................................................702.4. Coping and Adaptive Capacities ................................................................................................722.4.1. Capacity and Vulnerability .................................................................................................................................................722.4.2. Different Capacity Needs ...................................................................................................................................................742.4.2.1. Capacity to Anticipate Risk.................................................................................................................................................................742.4.2.2. Capacity to Respond...........................................................................................................................................................................742.4.2.3. Capacity to Recover and Change........................................................................................................................................................752.4.3. Factors of Capacity: Drivers and Barriers...........................................................................................................................762.5. Dimensions and Trends of Vulnerability and Exposure ..............................................................762.5.1. Environmental Dimensions.................................................................................................................................................762.5.1.1. Physical Dimensions ...........................................................................................................................................................................772.5.1.2. Geography, Location, Place ................................................................................................................................................................772.5.1.3. Settlement Patterns and Development Trajectories.............................................................................................................................782.5.2. Social Dimensions ..............................................................................................................................................................802.5.2.1. Demography .......................................................................................................................................................................................802.5.2.2. Education............................................................................................................................................................................................812.5.2.3. Health and Well-Being........................................................................................................................................................................822.5.2.4. Cultural Dimensions............................................................................................................................................................................842.5.2.5. Institutional and Governance Dimensions ..........................................................................................................................................852.5.3. Economic Dimensions.........................................................................................................................................................862.5.4. Interactions, Cross-Cutting Themes, and Integrations .......................................................................................................872.5.4.1. Intersectionality and Other Dimensions..............................................................................................................................................882.5.4.2. Timing, Spatial, and Functional Scales ................................................................................................................................................882.5.4.3. Science and Technology ......................................................................................................................................................................892.6. Risk Identification and Assessment ...........................................................................................892.6.1. Risk Identification ..............................................................................................................................................................902.6.2. Vulnerability and Risk Assessment.....................................................................................................................................902.6.3. Risk Communication...........................................................................................................................................................952.7. Risk Accumulation and the Nature of Disasters ........................................................................95References .................................................................................................................................................9666