This learning module examines people's vulnerability to hazards and disasters. It looks at the reasons people live in hazard-prone areas, what factors affect their vulnerability, and what vulnerability looks like in different types of disasters. Includes student tasks, videos, handouts, and slideshows.

Additional Tags

how communities deal with disaster, population vulnerability, types of vulnerable people in disaster, vulnerability of people in disaster, why people live in hazardous places, in natural disasters

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

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