LESSON 1.1: Basic Concept of Disaster and Disaster Risk

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 _____