Risk, Vulnerability and Responses

Hazards

Resilience

• The ability of communities to prepare for, withstand and recover from natural hazards

• The ability to ‘bounce back and better’ as quickly as possible

Community preparedness

• The ability of a community to cope with a hazard

• The ability to return to normal following a disaster

Integrated risk management

• Process of considering the social, economic and political factors involved in risk analysis

• Determines the acceptability of damage and decides on the actions to be taken to minimise damage

Rehabilitation

• People try to return to the state of things to normal by providing food, water and shelter to those most affected

Reconstruction

• All buildings, roads and other infrastructure are rebuilt after being damaged

Relief

• Aid given from one country to another

• Includes money, equipment, training and loans

Hazard risk equation

Risk = Hazard x Vulnerability / Capacity to cope