1.6A Inequality

• Factors affecting resilience and vulnerability:

  • access to education
  • housing
  • healthcare
  • income
• Increasing risk of vulnerability:

  • Population growth
  • Urbanisation and urban sprawl
  • Environmental degradation
  • Loss of community memory about hazards
  • Ageing, inadequate infrastructure
• Mitigating risk:

  • Warning and emergency-response systems
  • Economic wealth
  • Government disaster-assistance programmes
  • Insurance
  • hard engineering