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W2 Exposure & Vulnerability
W2 Exposure & Vulnerability
W2 Exposure & Vulnerability
This activity aims to allow the learners to identify and explain how hazard, exposure, and
vulnerability contribute to their selected topic’s disaster risks and effects.
List the exposure and its corresponding vulnerability and effect observed in your immediate
vicinity or community. List at least 5 of these.
Example:
open dumpsite with informal high level of poverty and loss of lives and properties and
settlements of 250,000 unemployment, low level health risks among residents
residents, heavy
of education, location of
rainfall, excess gas pressure
houses, and poor waste
management
3. A coastal city facing rising The city’s population As sea levels continue to rise
sea levels and increased includes marginalized and extreme weather events
frequency of storm surges communities living in become more frequent, there
due to climate change, informal settlements along is a heightened risk of coastal
compounded by inadequate the coastline, lacking access inundation, property, damage,
coastal protection measures. to proper infrastructure and displacement, and loss of
resources for disaster lives among vulnerable
resilience. communities in the coastal
areas.
4. A densely populated urban The urban population In the event of a significant
area situated near a major includes marginalized groups earthquake, there is a high
fault line, prone to frequent living in substandard housing risk of widespread
earthquakes and aftershocks. with inadequate structural destruction, loss of life, and
resilience to seismic activity. disruption of essential
services, particularly in
vulnerable neighborhoods
with poor building standards
and limited access to
resources.
5. A riverine settlement The riverine population lacks During periods of heavy
situated along a major river access to secure housing and rainfall and riverine flooding,
prone to seasonal flooding, flood-resistant infrastructure, there is a heightened risk of
exacerbated by deforestation increasing susceptibility to inundation, property damage,
and land-use changes riverine floods and associated loss of agricultural land, and
upstream. risks. displacement of communities
living in flood-prone areas
along the riverbanks.