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Search results for: “economic vulnerability”

  • Vulnerability

    Is the degree to which people are susceptible to the impact of a crisis, including loss, damage, suffering or death. Vulnerability can relate to physical, economic, social, political, legal, technical, ideological, cultural, educational, ecological and institutional conditions.

  • Risk

    Hazard , danger , peril , exposure to loss, injury , disadvantage or destruction, and comprises all elements of danger. Knox Jewelry Co. Inc. v Cincinnati Ins. Co., 203 S.E.2d 739, 130 Ga.App. 519. In insurance law, it denotes that specified contingency or peril contemplated in the […]