I noted a couple of emails recently on vulnerability. I came across a
definition which may interest: (V)ulnerability=(H)azard - (C)oping, from P.
Webb and A. Harinarayan, "A Mearure of Uncertainty: The Nature fo
Vulnerabilty and Its Relationship to Malnutrition (Disasters 23/4, 1999).
The article's critique of the commonly held link between vulnerability and
malnutrition might interest readers. "Vulnerability" is a key element in
donor policies for defining and providing emergency (food) assistance. This
use is, in many ways more advance although not necessarily more accurate,
than the use of vulnerability as a policy element in responding to other
types of disasters.
C. Kelly
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