Question

1. What attributes predispose individuals to vulnerability? 2. What are three enabling characteristics? 3. What is the third determinant of vulnerability?

Answer 1

Ans) Attributes predispose Individuals to vulnerability:

- unequal social, economic, health, and geographic conditions.

2) Enabling factors, or resources, include family characteristics such as income, insurance coverage, access to services (transportation and distance to care), and community characteristics such as availability of resources and region of the country.

3) Third determinant of vulnerability:

Economic Vulnerability. The level of vulnerability is highly dependent upon the economic status of individuals, communities and nations The poor are usually more vulnerable to disasters because they lack the resources to build sturdy structures and put other engineering measures in place to protect themselves from being negatively impacted by disasters.

Example: Poorer families may live in squatter settlements because they cannot afford to live in safer (more expensive) areas.