Disaster management glossary.

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: The Netherlands : Disaster and Emergency Reference Center, 1998Description: 130 pISBN:

9211313600 (pbk)

DDC classification:

363.34803 21

Subject: This draft glossary gives a multi-disciplinary overview of disaster management. It is common that the same word has a different meaning in different professional setting. Where this is the case, the specific sectors of disaster management for which the terms are explained have been indicated as follows: (DM) general disaster management; (TD) technological disasters; (HS) human settlement; (ND) natural disasters, covering geology, hydrology and meteorology; (ER) emergency response, civil defence, fire fighting; (WF) wildfires. General terms that are not specific for a particular area of disaster management are given without such sector indication

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	Australian Emergency Management Library	BOOK	363.34803 DIS (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		900061053

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This draft glossary gives a multi-disciplinary overview of disaster management. It is common that the same word has a different meaning in different professional setting. Where this is the case, the specific sectors of disaster management for which the terms are explained have been indicated as follows: (DM) general disaster management; (TD) technological disasters; (HS) human settlement; (ND) natural disasters, covering geology, hydrology and meteorology; (ER) emergency response, civil defence, fire fighting; (WF) wildfires. General terms that are not specific for a particular area of disaster management are given without such sector indication

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