Vulnerability

Clear in meaning, but can be disempowering if not combined with capacity and rights language. Calling communities 'vulnerable' risks defining them by their deficit. Part of the risk trinity (hazard, exposure, vulnerability). The political question: vulnerability is not a natural condition but a produced one -- produced by poverty, exclusion, historical extraction, and institutional failure. Context matters 3.6 times more than individual composition -- people are vulnerable not because of who they are but because of where they are placed.

How likely people are to be badly hurt -- and why