Terminology
Disaster Risk Reduction: The concept and practice of reducing disaster risks through systematic efforts to analyze and manage the causal factors of disasters, including through reduced exposure to hazards, lessened vulnerability of people and property, wise management of land and the environment, and improved preparedness for adverse events.
Early Warning: The set of capacities needed to generate and disseminate timely and meaningful warning information to enable individuals, communities, and organizations threatened by a hazard to prepare and to act appropriately and in sufficient time to reduce the possibility of harm or loss.
ENSO-El Nino Southern Oscillation Phenomenon: A complex interaction of the tropical Pacific Ocean and the global atmosphere that results in irregularly occurring episodes of changed ocean and weather patterns in many parts of the world, often with significant impacts over many months, such as altered marine habitats, rainfall changes, floods,...
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Abbreviations
- ECOSOC:
-
Economic and Social Council
- EWC:
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International Conference on Early Warning
- GAR:
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Global Assessment Report
- IDNDR:
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International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (Decade of the United Nations 1990–1999)
- IEWP:
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International Early Warning Programme
- IPCC:
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Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
- ISDR:
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International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (successor arrangement for IDNDR starting from 2000)
- PPEW:
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Platform for the Promotion of Early Warning
- STC:
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Scientific and Technical Committee within the IDNDR
- UNCED:
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United Nations Conference on Environment and Development
- WCDR:
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World Conference on Disaster Reduction
- WSSD:
-
World Summit for Sustainable Development
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Zentel, KO., Glade, T. (2013). International Strategies for Disaster Reduction (IDNDR and ISDR). In: Bobrowsky, P.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Natural Hazards. Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-4399-4_199
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