Geography GCSE
Risk and vulnerability
What Risk and vulnerability means in Geography GCSE, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Risk and vulnerability
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Reference: AQA
What geographers assess, since the severity of a hazard depends on both the physical event and the human context it affects.
Topics that use Risk and vulnerability
- Natural hazards (AQA GCSE)
Related terms
- Climate change
- Economic impacts of hazards
- Hazard mitigation
- Human-environment interaction
- Natural hazard
- Poverty
- Urbanisation
- Hazard classification
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