This document defines key terms related to disaster management, including hazards, disasters, vulnerability, risk, response, relief, rehabilitation, reconstruction, and preparedness. It explains that hazards are the result of interactions between human activities and natural/technological processes. Disasters cause widespread losses that exceed local coping abilities. Vulnerability reduces people's ability to handle hazards. Risk is the probability infrastructure/areas will be damaged by hazards due to nature, construction, and location. The difference between rehabilitation and reconstruction is that rehabilitation assists victims and revives essential services/economies, while reconstruction permanently repairs or replaces damaged infrastructure and sets the economy back on course.

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Becoming a Disaster Manager
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2. Phenomenon or situation, which
has the potential to cause
disruption or damage to people,
their property, their services and
their environment
There is a
potential for
occurrence
of an event
Hazards are the result of an interaction
between human activities and the
natural and technological processes that can
generate extreme events.
Hazard

3. Disaster
Serious disruption of
functioning of society,
causing widespread
human, material or
environmental losses,
which exceed the ability of
the affected people to
cope using their own
resources.

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

5. Risk
Risk – A 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.

6. Hazard Vulnerabilityx Disaster Risk
Capacity
=

7. Response

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

9. What is the difference between
1. Rehabilitation
2. Reconstruction

10. Rehabilitation
Actions taken in the
aftermath of a
disaster to:
• assist victims to
repair their
dwellings;
• re-establish
essential services;
• revive key
economic and social
activities

11. Reconstruction
Permanent
measures to repair
or replace
damaged
dwellings and
infrastructure and
to set the
economy back on
course.

12. Rehabilitation
Reconstruction

13. Structural
Mitigation
Land Use
Managemen
t
Mitigation

14. Preparedness
Measures taken in anticipation of a disaster to
ensure that appropriate and effective actions
are taken in the aftermath.