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    This document defines key terms related to natural hazards, disasters, risk reduction, and adaptation. It discusses the differences between hazards and risk, adaptation and mitigation, and capacities and vulnerabilities. The document also examines how the United Nations defines a disaster and lists four terrifying phenomena. It provides prompts for readers to confess their biggest fears regarding natural disasters and what they are doing to prepare.

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    This document defines key terms related to natural hazards, disasters, risk reduction, and adaptation. It discusses the differences between hazards and risk, adaptation and mitigation, and capacities and vulnerabilities. The document also examines how the United Nations defines a disaster and lists four terrifying phenomena. It provides prompts for readers to confess their biggest fears regarding natural disasters and what they are doing to prepare.

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    NATURAL HAZARDS: Disaster

    MITIGATION AND Readiness and


    Risk
    Reduction
    ADAPTATION
    DEFINITION OF TERMS

    Word Definition

    Hazards could be Natural or Man-made

    Risk

    Adaptation

    Mitigation

    Capacities and Vulnerabilities

    Disaster
    HAZARD VS
    RISK
    ADAPTATION
    VS
    MITIGATION
    CAPACITIES VS
    VULNERAB ILITIES
    WHAT THEN, IS A
    DISASTER?
    ACCORDING TO UNITED NATIONS…
    FOUR TERRIFYING PHENOMENON:
    ON A YELLOW SHEET OF PAPER…

    Make a “confession” about the disaster


    you are scared the most. Is it an
    earthquake? A tsunami? A typhoon with
    flash floods? A tornado? Or a volcanic
    eruption?
    Why are you most scared of this
    disaster?
    Currently, what are you doing to avoid
    the disaster from happening (on a
    household level)?

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