IB ESS HL 6.2.6 Climate Change Impacts on Societies Topic Practice

highest populations tend to have lower values of exposed (or at risk) property;
majority of vulnerable cities are located between the tropics;
the largest proportion of cities with large vulnerable populations are located in Asia;
the most expensive (costly) at risk properties are located in MEDCs (USA \& Japan);

Marking guidance:

Accept other reasonable responses that include quantitatively interrelated parameters inferred from this table and NOT from theoretical knowledge of this issue.

LEDCs:
are not equipped with the economic/medical resources to evacuate people/cope with large numbers of migrants;
have higher populations so more people at risk;
populations are already vulnerable and therefore any drop in living standards will affect them to a greater degree;
have fewer resources to pay for engineering works such as coastal defences to offset threats;