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Vulnerability is not static. Changes in land use, population patterns, building codes, vegetation, sea level, and other factors may significantly increase vulnerability from year to year. At the same time vulnerability can be reduced through well designed mitigation programs and by increasing individual and organizational preparedness. Relatively small changes in either direction can have significant impacts, making it very important that emergency management organizations constantly work to reduce vulnerability more than it increases through changes that may, or may not, be visible and easily understood.