GGR378H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Adaptive Capacity, Risk Perception, Social Vulnerability
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Example: role of poverty as a determinant of vulnerability. Impacts of poverty (based on analysis by fothergill & peek, 2003 a literature review) Role of poverty as a determinant of vulnerability. The poor perceive risk as more serious. (in almost all other aspects, poverty tends to increase, rather than decrease vulnerability and social impact. ) Lack of money to stock up on emergency supplies. Lack of community funds for training of response teams. Poverty influences who receives and believes formal warnings, and the response. Not enough money and other resources to take required actions (e. g. , no access to transportation) Note regarding loss of property: economic costs typically higher for higher ses, but economic impacts higher for lower ses. Poverty influences who is likely to suffer more, psychologically. The poor have a greater tendency to fall through the cracks . The poor don"t know how to work the system .
