Risk remains a function of hazard and vulnerability

The general reporting of disasters still references them by location and hazard event - the Haiti quake / New Orleans flood.

Infrequently - but refreshingly - an insightful report such as "Quake Accentuated Chasm That Has Defined Haiti" (in the New York Times, 27 March 2010) brings us back. Back to where our focus needs to be to make differences - on to people and their vulnerability.