Vulnerability

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-029871",
  "term": "Vulnerability",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "1. The degree to which a system is susceptible to, or unable to cope with, adverse effects of climate change, including climate variability and extremes. Vulnerability is a function of the character, magnitude, and rate of climate variation to which a system is exposed; its sensitivity; and its adaptive capacity.\n\n2. Differences in risk resulting from the combination of both intrinsic differences in susceptibility and extrinsic social stress factors such as low socioeconomic status, crime and violence, lack of community resources, crowding, access to health care, education, poverty, segregation, geography, etc.\n\n3. Susceptibility of people, property, and resources to negative impacts from hazard events.\n\n4. Differences in risk that result from intrinsic (internal) differences in susceptibility and social (external) stress factors such as low socioeconomic status, lack of community resources and access to health care, education, poverty, race and geography. Vulnerability also can be defined as the diminished capacity of an individual or community to anticipate, cope with, resist and recover from the effects of a natural or man-made hazard.",
  "subject": "Chemicals, toxics and pesticides",
  "references": [
    "Glossary of Climate Change Terms",
    "Risk Assessment Glossary; Children Env Health Terms; Children's Environmental Health Terms; U.S. EPA Risk Assessment Glossary",
    "NOAA Coastal Inundation Toolkit Glossary",
    "Recommendations for Integrating Environmental Justice into the EPA's Research Enterprise June 30, 2014 A Report of Recommendations of the National Environmental Justice Advisory Council A federal advisory committee to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency at https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2015-02/documents/nejac-research-recommendations-2014.pdf"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/vulnerability/"
}