Disaster response — is a phase of the disaster management cycle. Its preceding cycles aim to reduce the need for a disaster response, or to avoid it altogether. The level of disaster response depends on a number of factors and particular situation awareness. Studies … Wikipedia
Vulnerability — For other uses of the word Vulnerability , please refer to vulnerability (computing) You may also want to refer to natural disaster. Vulnerability is the susceptibility to physical or emotional injury or attack. It also means to have one s guard… … Wikipedia
Disaster risk reduction — (DRR) is a systematic approach to identifying, assessing and reducing the risks of disaster. It aims to reduce socio economic vulnerabilities to disaster as well as dealing with the environmental and other hazards that trigger them: here it has… … Wikipedia
Disaster research — deals with conducting field and survey research on group, organizational and community preparation for, response to, and recovery from natural and technological disasters and other community wide crises. The purpose behind this field of research… … Wikipedia
Disaster — For other uses, see Disaster (disambiguation). Ruins from the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, remembered as one of the worst natural disasters in United States history A disaster is a natural or man made hazard that has come to fruition, resulting … Wikipedia
Vulnerability and Risk Committee — The Vulnerability and Risk Committee, or VRC, is one of the four technical committees within the Council on Disaster Reduction of the American Society of Civil Engineers. Purpose The purpose of the Vulnerability and Risk Committee is to develop… … Wikipedia
Disaster Recovery Advisor — The Disaster Recovery Advisor (DRA or CC DRA) is a proprietary disaster recovery and high availability management system from Symantec. It is available for Windows, AIX, Solaris, Linux, and HP UX. It offers vulnerability detection and… … Wikipedia
Social vulnerability — Research on social vulnerability to date has stemmed from a variety of fields in the natural and social sciences. Each field has defined the concept differently, manifest in a host of definitions and approaches (Blaikie, Cannon et al. 1994;… … Wikipedia
Natural disaster — Not to be confused with environmental disaster. A natural disaster is the effect of a natural hazard (e.g., flood, tornado, hurricane, volcanic eruption, earthquake, heatwave, or landslide). It leads to financial, environmental or human losses.… … Wikipedia
National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) — Major Disasters in India (1980 2009) The DM[clarification needed] Act, 2005 has made the statutory provisions for the constitution of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) for the purpose of specialized respon … Wikipedia
International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction — Created in December 1999, UNISDR is the secretariat of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR). It is the successor to the secretariat of the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction with the purpose of ensuring the… … Wikipedia