[Radix] Poverty is a Vulnerability Multiplier

[Frederick Krimgold]

Dr. Frederick Krimgold
Director
Disaster Risk Reduction Program (DRR)
Virginia Tech
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On Jan 15, 2010, at 9:10 PM, George Kent wrote:

> What can Radix say about the tragic Haiti story? Many people blame  
> the deaths simply and directly on the earthquake, but I'd say it is  
> important to look into the hypothesis that poverty is a  
> vulnerability multiplier. Can appropriate comparisons be made to  
> test/demonstrate the proposition?
>
> Aloha, George
>
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