... Vulnerability Liabilities Capabilities Risk Risk management Susceptibility Resistance and resilience Environmental management According to David Alexander (2006) , “vulnerability is a greater determinant of disaster than hazards themselves” (p. 2). Research literature on this subject illustrates...

... in Green, 2004 , p. 323). First, many scholars view vulnerability as a function of factors that produce disaster proneness or the predisposition to be hurt (Bogardi, 2006 , p. 2). The variables related to this school of thought can be labeled as “liabilities” (McEntire et al., 2010 , p. 54...