Definitions

Definitions

One objective of the MYRIAD-EU project was to promote a common understanding of terminology and concepts related to multi-hazard, multi-risk management within the project consortium, and beyond to the wider community. This was achieved through the creation of a Handbook of Multi-Hazard, Multi-Risk Terms, Definitions and Concepts (hyperlink), which we adopt in this WIKI. This is an evolving work that will continuously be updated throughout the project. We welcome inputs from across the disaster risk management community.

We follow established glossaries, including the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) terminology for disaster risk reduction, as well as generated definitions specific to terms and concepts applied in the project.

A

• Adaptation
• Adaptation Tipping Point
• Adaptive Capacity
• Asynergies (in Disaster Risk Reduction measures)

B

• Bayesian (Belief) Network

C

• Capacity
• Complexity
• Confidence
• Cross-Sectoral Dependencies

D

• Deterministic Event Modelling
• Disaster
• Disaster Forensics
• Disaster Impact
• Disaster Management
• Disaster Recovery
• Disaster Response
• Disaster Risk
• Disaster Risk Assessment
• Disaster Risk Drivers
• Disaster Risk Management
• Disaster Risk Reduction
• Disaster Risk Governance
• (Consecutive) Disasters
• Dynamic Feedbacks

E

• Early Warning System
• Ecosystem Services
• Ecosystem-Based Adaptation (EbA)
• Ecosystem-Based Disaster Risk Reduction(Eco-DRR)
• Environmental Degradation
• Exposure
• Extreme Event

F

• Feedback Loops
• (Hazard) Forecast

G

• Governance

H

• Hazard
• Hazard Interrelationships
• Cascading) Hazard
• (Natural) Hazards
• (Hydrometeorological) Hazards
• (Technological) Hazards
• (Anthropogenic) Hazards
• (Environmental) Hazards
• (Biological) Hazards
• ((Geological / Geophysical) Hazards

I

• (Cascading) Impacts
• (Cross-Boundary) Impacts
• Indicators
• Insurance

L

• (Economic) loss
• (Direct economic) loss
• (Indirect economic) loss
• Non-economic loss

M

• (Hazard Impact) Mitigation
• (Climate Change) Mitigation
• Multi-Hazard
• Multi-Hazard Risk
• Multi-Risk
• Multi-Layer Single Hazards
• Multi-Hazard Event Sets

N

• NATECH Events
• Natural Resources
• Nature-Based Solutions

O

• Opportunity Tipping Points

P

• Paired Disaster Study
• Pathway
• (Adaptation) Pathways
• Preparedness
• Probabilistic Event Modelling
• Probable Maximum Loss

R

• Risk Perception
• Risk Dynamics
• (Deterministic) Risk
• (Residual) Risk
• (Emergent) Risk
• (Individual) Risk
• (Probabilistic) Risk
• (Systemic) Risk
• (Triggering) Relationship
• (Amplification) Relationship
• (Compound) Relationships
• Resilience
• Robustness
• Robustness Conflicts
• (Societal) Robustness

S

• System of systems
• Scenario
• (Current) Scenario
• (Future) Scenario
• Sensitivity Analysis
• Site Area
• Statistical Dependencies
• Storylines
• Sustainable (or Healthy) Ecosystems
• Sustainable Development
• System
• Systemic Perspective

T

• Threshold
• Tipping Point
• Trade-off

U

• Uncertainty
• (Deep) Uncertainty

V

• Vulnerability
• (Multi-)vulnerability