This section illustrates how Emae communities' susceptibility to disasters is based on various dimensions, including: historical, social, economic, physical, cultural, environmental, and institutional.
Emae's susceptibility to disasters is primarily represented by the impacts following cyclone Pam, along with some examples of the 2015/2016 El Niño drought that was being experienced during the fieldwork.
Susceptibility to natural disasters.
In addition, it looked at recreation, theaters, sports activities, access to grocery markets, the availability and cost of housing, as well as the climate and susceptibility to natural disasters.
Infections by lethal organisms, susceptibility to natural disasters or predators, etc., could still be likely.
They may also increase susceptibility to natural disasters (e.g., intense deforestation combined with heavy rains in Haiti led to disastrous mud slides in 2004).
Children are often at considerable risk during emergencies – and given Indonesia's high susceptibility to natural disasters, UNICEF is also working with emergency preparedness and response agencies to ensure that protection issues are adequately addressed in their policies and plans.
It may seem intuitive to suggest that relocation is the most effective strategy to completely reduce a population's susceptibility to volcanic hazards a disaster can only occur when society and a hazard overlap in space and time.
They remind us of our limitations and our place in the great chain of being; they are symbols of our vulnerability, our susceptibility to random death and disaster, our primal awareness, in Mr. Quammen's words, "of being meat".
Although Bangladesh is on track to achieve the MDG target for access to safe drinking water, arsenic contamination, increased salinity in groundwater in the coastal belt, declining groundwater levels, susceptibility to the impact of natural disasters pose significant risks to the availability of safe drinking water.
Having resources at only one location increases the risk of disease and natural disaster vulnerability and susceptibility to local budgetary limitations.
