This chapter reviews the glossary, which is in use to express terms such as hazard, vulnerability, exposure, damage, intensity, risk, and the like. Then, the various methods and tools used for the assessment of the tsunami hazard, vulnerability, and risk in the European and Mediterranean ...
1. exposure or vulnerability to injury, loss, evil, etc 2. at hazard at risk; in danger 3. a thing likely to cause injury, etc 4. (Golf) golf an obstacle such as a bunker, a road, rough, water, etc 5. chance; accident (esp in the phrase by hazard) 6. (Gambling, except Card...
centre for waterhazardandrisk management (ICHARM) in Tsukuba, Japan, under the [...] unesdoc.unesco.org unesdoc.unesco.org 委员会第八次会议审议了项目 5.10(关于在日本筑波建立由联合国教科文组织赞助的国际水灾与风险管理中心(UNESCO-ICHARM)的建议)、项目 ...
Our opinion was that even before considering the vulnerability of the building occupants or the duration of their exposure, the risks from those findings were far greater than the distant overhead electrical power lines. See BACKDRAFTING HEATING EQUIPMENT and compare those hazards to EMF CANCER ...
Policy change and vulnerability reduction It should be kept in mind that the HFA data do not directly measure vulnerability reduction, which was the goal of the HFA and one of the SDG targets. Investigating whether improvements in DRR policy actually lead to vulnerability reduction is thus not po...
Another sign that the vulnerability approach had achieved acceptance was the World Bank’s devoting its World Development Report 2000–2001 on “attacking poverty” to an expanded series of “dimensions of human deprivation” that include “vulnerability and exposure to risk—and voicelessne...
("C'est de [Zadig] que les Nations tiennent ce grand principe, qu'il vaut mieuxhazarderde sauver un coupable que de condamner un innocent." ["It is from [Zadig] that the Nations hold this great principle, that it is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent."...
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Total Risk is defined as hazard (frequency of tsunami events) times measures of elements at risk (human exposure) times measures of vulnerability (preparedness) in a given epoch (Nott, 2006). While the tsunami hazard in the Caribbean (averaging 19 卤 22 years between deadly events) is lower...
centre for waterhazardandrisk management (ICHARM) in Tsukuba, Japan, under the [...] unesdoc.unesco.org unesdoc.unesco.org 委员会第八次会议审议了项目 5.10(关于在日本筑波建立由联合国教科文组织赞助的国际水灾与风险管理中心(UNESCO-ICHARM)的建议)、项目 ...