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🌋Natural and Human Disasters
Key Terms

196 essential vocabulary terms and definitions to know for your Natural and Human Disasters exam

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1906 San Francisco Earthquake
1931 Yangtze River Floods

A

Access to resources
Accessible shelters
Acute radiation syndrome
Acute Stress Disorder
Adverse weather conditions
Aerial photography
Age-disaggregated data
Agricultural drought
Air quality deterioration
Air Rescue
Angle of repose
Ash fall
Atmospheric Instability
Aviation safety

B

Benefit-cost analysis
Bhopal Disaster
Building back better
Business interruption insurance

C

Capacity building
Case definition
Cash-for-work programs
Casualty rate
Child-friendly spaces
Climate adaptation
Climate resilience
Climatological Disaster
Cluster approach
Cluster leads
Coastal erosion
Coastal Floods
Coastal Vulnerability Index
Collaborative governance
Common Operating Picture
Communication systems
Community resilience planning
Community-based disaster risk management
Community-based early warning systems
Community-based organizations
Community-based recovery
Community-based vulnerability assessment
Complex Landslide
Complex systems theory
Contact tracing
Controlled Burn
Coriolis Force
Crop failure
Cross-border assistance
Cross-border migration
Crown fire
Crumple Zones

D

Damage assessment
Debris flow
Decision-making power
Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
Disaster funding mechanisms
Disaster Mitigation Act
Disaster recovery grants
Disaster relief funds
Disaster risk reduction legislation
Doppler Radar
Drainage systems
Drought contingency plans
Drought index
Dry Lines
Dryland farming

E

Earthquake response
Ecosystem destruction
Ecosystem health
El Niño Phenomenon

F

Fuel Load
Fujiwhara Effect
Fukushima Daiichi Incident
Full-scale exercise