The phrase "affect the vulnerability of" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing how certain factors or actions can influence the susceptibility or exposure to risks or threats.
Example: "The new security measures are designed to affect the vulnerability of our network to cyber attacks."
Alternatives: "influence the susceptibility of" or "impact the exposure of".
Issues warranting consideration that affect the vulnerability of communities and rural landscapes to natural hazards include demographic shifts and patterns, land use change, generational experience with hazards, adaptation measures, wealth, and community resilience.
We use the model to assess quantitatively how perceptions of fundamental risk and of government credit policy in a crisis affect the vulnerability of the financial system ex ante.
Their comparison provides an improved understanding of common factors that affect the vulnerability of PSWs to contaminants in karst aquifers, with implications for karst groundwater management.
Ideally, a public-supply-well vulnerability assessment pulls together data and information on each of the factors that can affect the vulnerability of a well to contamination.
Emerging lines of evidence have suggested that aberrant DNA methylation may affect the vulnerability of central nervous system injury responses following ischemia [ 2, 3].
These include diverse socio-economic, demographic, cultural, historical, and geographic factors and their configurations that affect the vulnerability of particular groups of men and women who engage in such risky sexual behavior to HIV infection [ 25- 29].
Measurements were performed in ORV trails as well as on undisturbed terrain to investigate how ORV driving affects the vulnerability of a soil to emit PM10 (particles < 10 μm), during the driving as well as during episodes of wind erosion.
The simulation results of these scenarios showed that precipitation is the major factor that affects the vulnerability of surface runoff, while the temperature plays a minor role in changes of surface runoff amounts (Hammouri et al. 2016).
Here, the aim of network analysis is to study how the performance of networks is affected by the removal of vertices and edges, to compare the structure of different networks, and to analyse how the change of structure affects the vulnerability of networks.
Possibly due to the lack of available space on which to re-build and/or the time pressures of relocating shelter dependents, hazard mitigation did not play a central role in the initial re-building phase, thus further affecting the vulnerability of these affected groups.
However, the extent to which inbreeding affects the vulnerability of populations to environmental stressors, such as chemical exposure, remains unresolved.
