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Disaster Risk Management
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Definition
The application of disaster risk reduction policies and strategies to prevent new disaster risk, reduce existing disaster risk and manage residual risk, contributing to the strengthening of resilience and reduction of disaster losses.
Source
UNDRR (2016). Report of the open-ended intergovernmental expert working group on indicators and terminology relating to disaster risk reduction
Available at: https://www.undrr.org/terminology/disaster-risk-management
See also: Disaster Risk, Disaster Risk Reduction, (Residual) Risk, Resilience
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