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  2. Disaster response - Wikipedia

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    Disaster risk reduction (DRR) is action taken to "[reduce] existing disaster risk and [manage] residual risk." [7] DRR plans aim to decrease the amount of disaster response necessary by planning ahead and making communities resilient to any potential hazardous events that might occur. [7]

  3. United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Wikipedia

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    The Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction (GAR) is the United Nation’s biennial global review and analysis of the natural hazards that are affecting humanity. The GAR monitors risk patterns and trends and progress in disaster risk reduction while providing strategic policy guidance to countries and the international community.

  4. Disaster risk reduction - Wikipedia

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    Disaster risk reduction progress score for some countries in 2011. The score of 5 is best. Assessments include four indicators that reflect the degree to which countries have prioritised disaster risk reduction and the strengthening of relevant institutions. [1] Disaster risk reduction aims to make disasters less likely to happen.

  5. Natural disaster - Wikipedia

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    Disaster risk reduction progress score for some countries in 2011. The score of 5 is best. Assessments include four indicators that reflect the degree to which countries have prioritised disaster risk reduction and the strengthening of relevant institutions. [89] Disaster risk reduction aims to make disasters less likely to happen. The approach ...

  6. Common Vulnerability Scoring System - Wikipedia

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    The primary goal of CVSS is to provide a deterministic and repeatable way to score the severity of a vulnerability across many different constituencies, allowing consumers of CVSS to use this score as input to a larger decision matrix of risk, remediation, and mitigation specific to their particular environment and risk tolerance.

  7. Vulnerability index - Wikipedia

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    The concept has been extended and applied in dealing with risk from natural hazards and the part that population metrics play in making such a situation into a disaster. In the USA this has been done at a county level. And is run by the Hazards and Vulnerability Research Institute [20] since 2003.

  8. Disaster - Wikipedia

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    Disaster risk reduction progress score for some countries in 2011. The score of 5 is best. Assessments include four indicators that reflect the degree to which countries have prioritized disaster risk reduction and the strengthening of relevant institutions. [44

  9. Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction - Wikipedia

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    The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (2015–2030) is an international document that was adopted by the United Nations (UN) member states between 14 and 18 March 2015 at the World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction held in Sendai, Japan, and endorsed by the UN General Assembly in June 2015.