Disaster and Disaster Risk

The opposite of vulnerability. It is the combination of a community's strengths, characteristics, and resources that can be utilized to achieve certain goals.

• Capacity

• Exposure

• Vulnerability

• Duration

Used in determining ways to reduce possible harm to people, infrastructure, services, and environmental processes . These are used as basis for building codes and engineering standards for the nation's infrastructure

• Residual Risk

• Policy

• Acceptable risk

• Exposure

This aims to decrease the risk level in communities . It implements policies and measures to control potential risks like poor urban and rural planning, poverty, and poor government and local capacities.

• Disaster Risk Reduction

• Hazard

• Disaster Impact

• Disaster Prevention and Mitigation

Any phenomenon that can potentially cause damage to life, property, or environment.

• Hazard

• Exposure

• Disaster

• acceptable risk

Are direct affects manifested from the disaster event itself.

• Primary

• Partial

• Secondary

• Tertiary

A condition determined by physical, social, economic, and environmental factors or processes which increase the susceptibility of a community to the impact of hazards.

• Vulnerability

• Disaster Risk

• Exposure

• Capacity

A serious disruption of the functioning of a community or society causing widespread human, material, economic, and environmental losses.

• Disaster

• Capacity

• Hazard

• Vulnerability

Acceptable Risk, Residual Risk, National Disaster Risk , Extensive Disaster Risks, Intensive Disaster Risks

• National Disaster Risk

• Underlying risk factors in Disaster

• Vulnerability and Exposure

• Residual Risk

Disaster linked to low severity, high frequency events that often occur in localized areas. (e.g. risk of flooding in low lying areas.)

• Exposure

• Extensive Disaster Risks

• National Disaster Risk

• Disaster

Any element (people, property, or system) that is present in a hazard and is prone to potential loss.

• Exposure

• Subliminal Suggestion

• Capacity

• Vulnerability