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1 Acceptable risk Adaptation Biological hazard Building code Capacity Capacity Development Climate change Contingency planning Coping capacity Corrective Disaster risk management Critical facilities Disaster Disaster risk Disaster risk management Disaster risk Reduction Disaster risk Reduction plan Early warning system Ecosystem services El Ni o-Southern Oscillation phenomenon Emergency management Emergency services Environmental degradation Environmental impact assessment Exposure Extensive risk Forecast Geological hazard Greenhouse gases Hazard Hydrometeorological hazard Intensive risk Land-use planning Mitigation National platform for Disaster risk Reduction Natural hazard Preparedness Prevention Prospective Disaster risk management Public awareness Recovery Residual risk Resilience Response Retrofitting Risk Risk assessment Risk management Risk transfer Socio-natural hazard Structural measures Non-structural measures Sustainable development Technological hazard Vulnerability Acceptable risk Adaptation Biological hazard Building code Capacity Capacity Development Climate change Contingency planning Coping capacity Corrective Disaster risk management Critical facilities Disaster Disaster risk Disaster risk management Disaster risk Reduction Disaster risk Reduction plan Early warning system Ecosystem services El Ni o-Southern Oscillation phenomenon

2 Emergency management Emergency services Environmental degradation Environmental impact assessment Exposure Extensive risk Forecast Geological hazard Greenhouse gases Hazard Hydrometeorological hazard Intensive risk Land-use planning Mitigation National platform for Disaster risk Reduction Natural hazard Preparedness Prevention Prospective Disaster risk management P Technological hazard Vulnerability United Nations2009 UNISDR Terminologyon DisasterRiskReductionAcceptable risk Adaptation Biological hazard Building code Capacity Capacity Development Climate change Contingency planning Coping capacity Corrective Disaster risk management Critical facilities Disaster Disaster risk Disaster risk management Disaster risk Reduction Disaster risk Reduction plan Early warning system Ecosystem services El Ni o-Southern Oscillation phenomenon Emergency management Emergency services Environmental degradation Environmental impact assessment Exposure Extensive risk Forecast Geological hazard Greenhouse gases Hazard Hydrometeorological hazard Intensive risk Land-use planning Mitigation National platform for Disaster risk Reduction Natural hazard Preparedness Prevention Prospective Disaster risk management Public awareness Recovery Residual risk Resilience Response Retrofitting Risk Risk assessment Risk management Risk transfer Socio-natural hazard Structural measures Non-structural measures Sustainable

3 Development Technological hazard Vulnerability Acceptable risk Adaptation Biological hazard Building code Capacity Capacity Development Climate change Contingency planning Coping capacity Corrective Disaster risk management Critical facilities Disaster Disaster risk Disaster risk management Disaster risk Reduction Disaster risk Reduction plan Early warning system Ecosystem services El Ni o-Southern Oscillation phenomenon Emergency management Emergency services Environmental degradation Environmental impact assessment Exposure Extensive risk Forecast Geological hazard Greenhouse gases Hazard Hydrometeorological hazard Intensive risk Land-use planning Mitigation National platform for Disaster risk Reduction Natural hazard Preparedness Prevention Prospective Disaster risk management Public awareness Recovery Residual risk Resilience Response Retrofitting Risk Risk assessment Risk management Risk transfer Socio-natural hazard Structural measures Non-structural measures Sustainable development Technological hazard Vulnerability Acceptable risk Adaptation Biological hazard Building code Capacity Capacity Development Climate change Contingency planning Coping capacity Corrective Disaster risk management Critical facilities Disaster Disaster risk Disaster risk management Disaster risk Reduction Disaster risk Reduction plan Early warning system Ecosystem services El Ni o-Southern Oscillation

4 Phenomenon Emergency management Emergency services Environmental degradation Environmental impact assessment Exposure Extensive risk Forecast Geological hazard Greenhouse gases Hazard Hydrometeorological hazard Intensive risk Land-use planning Mitigation National platform for Disaster risk Reduction Natural hazard Preparedness Prevention Prospective Disaster risk management Public awareness Recovery Residual risk Resilience Response Retrofitting Risk Risk assessment Risk management Published by the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR)Geneva, Switzerland, May 2009 United Nations , 2009 United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction , 2009 All rights reservedThis publication may be freely quoted or reprinted, but acknowledgement of the source is requested.

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6 Preparedness Prevention Prospective Disaster risk management Public awareness Recovery Residual risk Resilience Response Retrofitting Risk Risk assessment Risk management Risk transfer Socio-natural hazard Structural measures Non-structural measures Sustainable development Technological hazard Vulnerability Acceptable risk Adaptation Biological hazard Building code Capacity Capacity Development Climate change Contingency planning Coping capacity Corrective Disaster risk management Critical facilities Disaster Disaster risk Disaster risk management Disaster risk Reduction Disaster risk Reduction plan Early warning system Ecosystem services El Ni o-Southern Oscillation phenomenon Emergency management Emergency services Environmental degradation Environmental impact assessment Exposure Extensive risk Forecast Geological hazard Greenhouse gases Hazard Hydrometeorological hazard Intensive risk Land-use planning Mitigation National platform for Disaster risk Reduction Natural hazard Preparedness Prevention Prospective Disaster risk management Public awareness Recovery Residual risk Resilience Response Retrofitting Risk Risk assessment Risk management Risk transfer Socio-natural hazard Structural measures Non-structural measures Sustainable development Technological hazard Vulnerability Acceptable risk Adaptation Biological hazard Building code Capacity Capacity Development

7 Climate change Contingency planning Coping capacity Corrective Disaster risk management Critical facilities Disaster Disaster risk Disaster risk management Disaster risk Reduction Disaster risk Reduction plan Early warning system Ecosystem services Disaster risk management Public awareness Recovery Residual risk Resilience Response Retrofitting Risk Risk assessment Risk management Risk transfer Socio-natural hazard Structural measures Non-structural measures Sustainable development Technological hazard Vulnerability Acceptable risk Adaptation Biological hazard Building code Capacity Capacity Development Climate change Contingency planning Coping capacity Corrective Disaster risk management Critical facilities Disaster Disaster risk Disaster risk management Acceptable risk Adaptation Biological hazard Building code Capacity Capacity Development Climate change Contingency planning Coping capacity Corrective Disaster risk management Critical facilities Disaster Disaster risk Disaster risk management Disaster risk Reduction Disaster risk Reduction plan Early warning system Ecosystem services El Ni o-Southern Oscillation phenomenon Emergency management Emergency services Environmental degradation Environmental impact assessment Exposure Extensive risk Forecast Geological hazard Greenhouse gases Hazard Hydrometeorological hazard Intensive risk Land-use planning Mitigation National platform for

8 Disaster risk Reduction Natural hazard Preparedness Prevention Prospective Disaster risk management Public awareness Recovery Residual risk Resilience Response Retrofitting Risk Risk assessment Risk management Risk transfer Socio-natural hazard Structural measures Non-structural measures Sustainable development Technological hazard Vulnerability Acceptable risk Adaptation Biological hazard Building code Capacity Capacity Development Climate change Contingency planning Coping capacity Corrective Disaster risk management Critical facilities Disaster Disaster risk Disaster risk management Disaster risk Reduction Disaster risk Reduction plan Early warning system Ecosystem services El Ni o-Southern Oscillation phenomenon Emergency management Emergency services Environmental degradation Environmental impact assessment Exposure Extensive risk Forecast Geological hazard Greenhouse gases Hazard Hydrometeorological hazard Intensive risk Land-use planning Mitigation National platform for Disaster risk Reduction Natural hazard Preparedness Prevention Prospective Disaster risk management Public awareness Recovery Residual risk Resilience Response Retrofitting Risk Risk assessment Risk management Risk transfer Socio-natural hazard Structural measures Non-structural measures Sustainable development Technological hazard Vulnerability Acceptable risk Adaptation Biological hazard Building code

9 Capacity Capacity Development Climate change Contingency planning Coping capacity Corrective Disaster risk management Critical facilities Disaster Disaster risk Disaster risk management Disaster risk Reduction Disaster risk Reduction plan Early warning system Ecosystem services Disaster risk management Public awareness Recovery Residual risk Resilience Response Retrofitting Risk Risk assessment Risk management Risk transfer Socio-natural