
LESSON 1.1: Basic Concept of Disaster and Disaster Risk
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It is a serious disruption of the functioning of a community or a society involving widespread human, material, economic or environmental losses and impacts.
Disasters are often a result of the combination of the ______ to a hazard.
It refers to the potential (not actual and realized) disaster losses, in lives, health status, livelihoods, assets, and services.
The threat of _____has also increased due to the spread of technologies involving nuclear, biological, and chemical agents used to develop weapons of mass destruction.
The term "hazard risk" refers to the potential (not actual and realized) disaster losses, in lives, health status, livelihoods, assets, and services which could occur in a community or society over some specified future time
In general, _____ is defined as “the combination of the probability of an event and its negative consequences” (UNISDR, 2009).
This category of disaster are those in which major direct causes are identifiable intentional or unintentional human actions
UNISDR stands for
A preceding definition of disaster stresses that two elements are affected – life (whether human or animal) and property
The term complex emergency is usually used to describe the humanitarian emergency resulting from an international or _____