vulnerability reduction
1Vulnerability and Risk Committee — The Vulnerability and Risk Committee, or VRC, is one of the four technical committees within the Council on Disaster Reduction of the American Society of Civil Engineers. Purpose The purpose of the Vulnerability and Risk Committee is to develop… …
2Social vulnerability — Research on social vulnerability to date has stemmed from a variety of fields in the natural and social sciences. Each field has defined the concept differently, manifest in a host of definitions and approaches (Blaikie, Cannon et al. 1994;… …
3Nepal Risk Reduction Consortium — (NRRC) was launched by the Government of Nepal (GoN) and a group of international organizations working to promote the UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR) in 2009. It exists to bridge the spectrum of development and… …
4Disaster risk reduction — (DRR) is a systematic approach to identifying, assessing and reducing the risks of disaster. It aims to reduce socio economic vulnerabilities to disaster as well as dealing with the environmental and other hazards that trigger them: here it has… …
5Windows Metafile vulnerability — The Windows Metafile vulnerability is a security vulnerability in Microsoft Windows NT based operating systems which has been used in a variety of exploits since late December 2005. The vulnerability was first discussed in the computer security… …
6International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction — Created in December 1999, UNISDR is the secretariat of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR). It is the successor to the secretariat of the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction with the purpose of ensuring the… …
7Council on Disaster Reduction — The Council on Disaster Reduction, or CDR, is one of the 12 technical councils and divisions of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)[1]. Contents 1 Purpose 2 Leadership 3 Technical Committees …
8Diablo Canyon earthquake vulnerability — Diablo Canyon (Nuclear) Power Plant, located on the water s edge in San Luis Obispo County California, was originally designed to withstand a 6.75 magnitude earthquake from four faults, including the nearby San Andreas and Hosgri faults,[1] but… …
9Adaptation to global warming — and climate change is a response to climate change that seeks to reduce the vulnerability of natural and human systems to climate change effects.[1] Even if emissions are stabilized relatively soon, climate change and its effects will last many… …
10National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace — The National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace (February 2003) featured the new cabinet level United States Department of Homeland Security as the lead agency protecting IT.[1] In the United States government, the National Strategy to Secure Cyber …
