UN

United Nations (UN) definitions from A-Z

A

• Acceptable Risk
• Adaptation
• Adaptation Assessment
• Adaptive Capacity
• Alert
• Attack
• Availability

B

• Biological Hazard

C

• Capability
• Capacity
• Capacity Building
• Civil Military Cooperation
• Civil Protection
• Climate
• Climate Change
• Climate Model
• Climate Projection
• Climate System
• Confidentiality
• Contingency Planning
• Control
• Coping Capacity
• Critical Facilities

C cont.

• Critical Infrastructure
• Cyber Attack
• Cyber Security
• Cyber Stability
• Cybersecurity Index

D

• Damage
• Danger
• Disaster
• Disaster Resilience
• Disaster Risk
• Disaster Risk Management
• Disaster Risk Reduction

E

• Emergency
• Emergency Management
• Emergency Services
• Exposure
• Extreme Weather Event (EWE)

G

• Geological Hazard

H

• Hazard
• Hydrometeorological Hazard

I

• Integrity

L

• Likelihood

M

• Mitigation

N

• Natural Hazard
• Nowcast

O

• Organisational structures CI/CII

P

• Preparedness
• Prevention

R

• Recovery
• Resilience
• Response
• Risk
• Risk Assessment
• Risk Evaluation
• Risk Management
• Risk Reduction
• Risk Tolerance
• Risk Transfer

S

• Scenario
• Security
• Socio-natural Hazard

T

• Technological Hazard
• Threat

U

• Uncertainty

V

• Vulnerability