The document defines key terms used in disaster management, including disaster, hazard, vulnerability, risk, capacity, and others. It provides brief definitions of each term. For example, it defines disaster as "a serious disruption of the functioning of a community or a society involving widespread human, material, economic or environmental losses and impacts" and hazard as "a phenomenon or situation, which has the potential to cause disruption or damage to people, their property, their social or economic activities." The document aims to help readers understand the basic terminology used when discussing disasters and their management.

1. Md. Nurul Alam

2. ◦ What is Disaster?
◦ Idea regarding various terminology used in
Disaster Management

3. "When anybody asks me how I can best describe
my experience of nearly forty years at sea, I
merely say, uneventful. Of course there has
been winter gales and storms and fog and the
like. But in all my experience, I have never been
in any accident of any sort worth speaking
about. I have seen but one vessel in distress in
all my years at sea ... I never saw A wreck and
never have been wrecked, nor was I ever in any
predicament that threatened to end in disaster
of any sort.”

4. Floods
Epidemics
Super Cyclone
Landslide

5. International Strategy For Disaster
Reduction (2000 on wards…)
◦ “The ISDR aims at building disaster resilient communities
by promoting increased awareness of the importance of
disaster reduction as an integral component of sustainable
development, with the goal of reducing
human, social, economic and environmental losses due to
natural hazards and related technological and
environmental disasters”

6. Disaster Management
Terminology

7. Basic At the end of this session, you
should be able to:
Definitions
Define disaster, hazard,
& Terms risk, vulnerability,
capacity, response,
Learning relief, rehabilitation,
Objectives reconstruction,
development, mitigation,
preparedness and
prevention

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9. Disaster Risk Management
A broad range of activities designed to:
 Prevent the loss of lives
 Minimize human suffering
 Inform the public and authorities of risk
 Minimize property damage and
economic loss
 Speed up the recovery process

10. Can you describe
these situations
now?

11. is a condition or sets of
conditions that reduces people’s
ability to prepare for, withstand
or respond to a hazard

12. The probability that a community’s
structure or geographic area is to
be damaged or disrupted by the
impact of a particular hazard, on
account of their nature,
construction, and proximity to a
hazardous area.

13. Actions taken immediately
following the impact of a
disaster when exceptional
measures are required to meet
the basic needs of the
survivors.

14. Topic Covered Today
◦ What is Disaster?
◦ Idea regarding various terminology
used in Disaster Management

15. Any Question?

16. References
www.adpc.net
www.unisdr.org