What we have learned is that if you go for monocultures, you are vulnerable to disaster.
The banks that supported their governments, and that in turn depended on those same governments for bailouts if they went broke, were deemed to be particularly vulnerable to disaster.
Children with disabilities are particularly vulnerable in disaster as schools often do not have adequate emergency management plans in place for their needs (Peek and Stough 2010; Ducy and Stough 2011; Boon et al. 2012).
Sending digital documents for proposals and as part of business dealings with customers and vendors reduce the paper files you need to maintain - and that are vulnerable to disaster.
Children especially vulnerable The disaster has caused a variety of health problems in the community.
Four of them are situated in rural areas vulnerable to disaster.
However, disasters and their related coping mechanisms contribute to this poverty, and this poverty in turn makes people more vulnerable to disaster.
Women are not only particularly vulnerable to disasters, they are also frontline actors in disaster preparation and response; their participation in disaster planning needs to become common practice.
The city remains highly vulnerable to disasters, as very few people have moved out of the disaster-prone areas of the city especially Mabeta, Motowo, Limbe Camp, Down Beach, and Church Street in the southern part of the city.
Ultimately, research and decision making in DRR is not only about "managing changes caused by disasters" but also about "creating systemic changes" so that people are less vulnerable to disasters.
