competencies or human abilities, of a personal, institutional, managerial or empirical nature that can reduce a designated population, structures, or a physical environment to severe loss or damage from the effects of a hazards or combination of hazards.18–20
The authority to send specific messages to specific objects in a distributed system. In E, you can control a object's access to particular resources (such as a file system) by giving it only certain capabilities.
Resources within a society that influence the type and scale of activity undertaken by individuals and organizations (e.g., natural resources, infrastructure, human resources, technology).