DRRR

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Cards (19)

  • Defined as "the combination of the probability of an event and its negative sequences".
    Risk
  • Is "a sudden calamitous occurrences that causes great harm, injury, destruction and devastation to life and property.
    Disaster
  • Refers to the potential (not actual and realized) disaster losses, in lives, health status, livelihoods, assets, and services which would occur in a community or society over a period of time
    Disaster Risk
  • They can be classified as rapid onset disasters and those with progressive onset
    Natural Disasters
  • a source or condition that has the potential to cause harm to humans in the form of injury, illness, property damage environmental damage or a combination of these
    Hazard
  • Are caused by human activities, unlike natural hazard, human made hazards can often be prevented.
    Human hazard
  • Occurs when an extreme natural event is destructive to human life and property
    Natural hazard