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Total renewable water resources per capita

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One of the factors recommended to estimate the infrastructural component of the Drought Vulnerability Index (DVI). The total annual actual renewable water resources per inhabitant, including surface and groundwater sources for the whole country. This variable does not take into account whether the water is easily accessible, or safe, but is indicative of how much water each person in a country could have access to at any given time, which may indicate a higher adaptive capacity to drought. See also ‘Drought Vulnerability Index (DVI)’

Vulnerability

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Vulnerability refers to conditions determined by physical, social, economic and environmental factors or processes, which increase the susceptibility of an individual, a community, assets or systems to the impacts of hazards, such as drought. Hence, vulnerability is an inherent property of a system that exists independently of the external hazard, i.e. the same level of hazard may impose different consequences in different systems (communities, individuals, countries, regions) due to the distinct underlying vulnerabilities of the systems. In turn, vulnerability to the hazard and its impacts can be altered by the actions of society, such as land and water management practices, among others. For UNCCD reporting, three components of vulnerability are considered: social vulnerability, economic vulnerability and infrastructural vulnerability. See also ‘Drought Vulnerability Index (DVI)’