The notion of vulnerability originates in the environmental sciences, where it is viewed as "a powerful analytical tool for describing states of susceptibility to harm, powerlessness, and marginality of both physical and social systems" (Adger, 2006, p. 268). However, the diffusion of this notion well beyond the original field of application led Brown et al. (2017, p. 497) to point out how "the ubiquity and elasticity of [the term] vulnerability generates a
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