Fig. 1.

The vulnerability cube is a system of compiling and collapsing data into three axes in 3D format, with one node representing an area of high vulnerability, and the opposite node representing an area of low vulnerability (a). The goal is to plot communities within the cube using the collapsed data in order to understand their level of vulnerability judged by their position relative to the low vulnerability node. The cube can be split into eight sub-cubes as a way to cluster communities with similar vulnerabilities into typologies (b). The goal is to move communities toward a lower vulnerability position (c)