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Basic Concepts and Terminologies in Disaster Management

This document defines key concepts and terminology in disaster management, including: 1) Hazard - A situation with potential to cause disruption or damage. 2) Disaster - A serious disruption exceeding a community's ability to cope using its own resources. 3) Vulnerability - Conditions reducing ability to prepare for or respond to hazards. 4) Disaster management - Planning for and responding to disasters, managing consequences.

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Basic Concepts and Terminologies in Disaster Management

This document defines key concepts and terminology in disaster management, including: 1) Hazard - A situation with potential to cause disruption or damage. 2) Disaster - A serious disruption exceeding a community's ability to cope using its own resources. 3) Vulnerability - Conditions reducing ability to prepare for or respond to hazards. 4) Disaster management - Planning for and responding to disasters, managing consequences.

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Basic Concepts and Terminologies in Disaster Management 10.

Reconstruction - Permanent measures to repair or replace damaged


1. HAZARD - Phenomenon or situation, which has the potential to cause dwellings and infrastructure and to set the economy back on course.
disruption or damage to people, their property, their services and
their environment. There is a potential for occurrence of an event. 11. Rehabilitation - Actions taken in the aftermath of a disaster to assist
victims to repair their dwellings; re-establish essential services; revive
2. DISASTER - The serious disruption of the functioning of society, key economic and social activities.
causing widespread human, material or environmental losses, which
exceed the ability of the affected people to cope using their own 12. Development - Sustained efforts intended to improve or maintain the
resources. An event, either man-made or natural, sudden or social and economic well-being of a community.
progressive, causing widespread human, material or environmental
losses. 13. Prevention - Measures taken to avert a disaster from occurring, if
possible (to impede a hazard so that it does not have any harmful
3. Vulnerability - Is a condition or sets of conditions that reduces effects).
people’s ability to prepare for, withstand or respond to a hazard。
14. Mitigation - Measures taken prior to the impact of a disaster to
4. Capacity - Those positive condition or abilities which increase a minimize its effects (sometimes referred to as structural and non-
community’s ability to deal with hazards. structural measures).

5. Risk - The probability that a community’s structure or geographic area 15. Preparedness - Measures taken in anticipation of a disaster to ensure
is to be damaged or disrupted by the impact of a particular hazard, on that appropriate and effective actions are taken in the aftermath.
account of their nature, construction, and proximity to a hazardous
area. Disaster Risk Management - Stress on proactive disaster management
responses of prevention, mitigation and preparedness.
6. Elements at Risk - People, buildings, crops or other such like societal  Prevent, reduce, transfer or live with disaster risk
components exposed to known hazard, which are likely to be  Public safety, disaster resilience, sustainable development for all
adversely affected by the impact of the hazard. A broad range of activities designed to:
 Prevent the loss of lives
7. Disaster Management - A collective term encompassing all aspects of  Minimize human suffering
planning for preparing and responding to disasters. It refers to the  Inform the public and authorities of risk
management of the consequences of disasters.  Minimize property damage and economic loss
 Speed up the recovery process
8. Response or Relief - Actions taken immediately following the impact
of a disaster when exceptional measures are required to meet the
basic needs of the survivors. Measures that are required in search and
rescue of survivors, as well to meet the basic needs for shelter, water,
food and health care.

9. Recovery - The process undertaken by a disaster affected community


to fully restore itself to pre-disaster level of functioning.

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