A process, phenomenon or human activity that may cause loss of life, injury or other health impacts, property damage, social and economic disruption or environmental degradation
Large influx of refugees can deplete basic resources of a certain area: food and water supplies, healthcare, transient housing, education, other basic services
A serious disruption of the functioning of a community or a society at any scale due to hazardous events interacting with conditions of exposure, vulnerability and capacity, leading to one or more of the following: human, material, economic and environmental losses and impacts
The potential loss of life, injury, or destroyed or damaged assets which could occur to a system, society or a community in a specific period of time, determined probabilistically as a function of hazard, exposure, vulnerability and capacity
Considers social conditions (age, gender, wealth, ethnicity) and cultural settings (language, beliefs, traditions, customs) that affect response to natural hazards and disasters
Considers direct economic costs (negative impacts on assets, production factors, output, employment) and indirect economic costs (e.g. breadwinner loses job due to isolation or workplace affected)
Considers wider in scale and ambition than the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), consisting of 17 goals, 169 targets and 231 unique indicators to monitor progress, and covering every country in the world