Risk and Disaster: Conceptual Overview

RISK AND DISASTER: CONCEPTUAL OVERVIEW

A standardized and unified understanding of the concepts is crucial to achieving the ends of Risk, Disaster, and Humanitarian Communication. To effectively provide the link between the government and technicians and the people, through communication is a top priority. Through Risk, Disaster, and Humanitarian Communication, no disaster-related term should ever be considered as too technical for the appreciation of anyone.

Now, let's go over these basic concepts and see how our knowledge is crucial to our understanding of Risk, Disaster, and Humanitarian Communication and how they can help you save our community.

DEFINING THE CONCEPTS

The United Nations Development Program was responsible for formulating these definitions which have now become globally-accepted. These definitions are considered standards as they are recognized by governments, international media, think tanks and by organizations in the business of disaster risk reduction and management. The Red Cross and the Philippines' National Disaster Coordinating Council echo the definitions crafted by the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction.

Before we push for the more technical and complex terms of disaster risk reduction and disaster risk management, let's first establish a very clear understanding of what a disaster entails.