5 - Flood risk management

Vulnerability to hazard means potential for loss.Socially created vulnerabilities are usually individual characteristics of people. Information, knowledge, technology, political power and representation and social capital all affect someone/a populations social vulnerability. Social vulnerability goes a way to describing a populations ability to respond and cope with a hazard, intimately linked to sensitivity (the immediate reaction/how big an effect the hazard will have). Place inequalities are characteristics of the environment and communities.

Cutter et al. 2003