Progression of vulnerability and hazard

According to the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, disaster risk is defined as:

The potential loss of life, injury or destroyed or damaged assets which could occur to a system, society or a community in a specific period of time, determined probabilistically as a function of hazard, exposure, and capacity.

_{(UNISDR 2017)}

_{Adapted from Wisner et al (2004). Click to expand.}

Your task

Find some information about the conditions in Pakistan immediately prior to the 2010 floods. Use them to conduct a simple progression of vulnerability analysis using the pressure model.

Consider how the factors in Pakistan before the floods created root causes (1) that led to dynamic pressures (2) and ultimately unsafe conditions (3) meaning that some people were more significantly affected than others.

References

_{Alexander, D. (2000) Confronting Catastrophe: New Perspectives on Natural Disasters. New York: Oxford University Press}

_{Blaikie, P., Cannon, T., Davies, I., Wisner, B. (1994) At Risk: Natural Hazards, People‘s Vulnerability & Disaster. London: Routledge}

_{Wisner, B., Blaikie, P., Cannon, T., and Davis, I. (2004) At Risk: Natural Hazards, People‘s Vulnerability and Disasters. 2nd edn. London: Routledge}

_{UNISDR (2017) UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction – Terminology – UNISDR [online] available from https://www.undrr.org/terminology/disaster-risk [14 May 2020]}