Disaster Risk Factor

Definition

A Disaster Risk Factor is any process or conditions, often development-related, that influences the level of Disaster Risk by increasing levels of Exposure and Vulnerability or reducing capacity.

Underlying disaster risk drivers include:

• poverty and inequality
• climate change and variability
• unplanned and rapid urbanization and
• the lack of disaster risk considerations in land management and environmental and natural resource management

Compounding factors include

• demographic change
• non disaster risk-informed policies
• the lack of regulations and incentives for private disaster risk reduction investment
• complex supply chains
• the limited availability of technology
• unsustainable uses of natural resources
• declining ecosystems
• pandemics and epidemics.

References

• https://www.undrr.org/terminology/underlying-disaster-risk-drivers