Универсальный англо-русский словарь. Академик.ру. 2011.
International 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… … Wikipedia
World Conference on Disaster Reduction — is a United Nations conference bringing together government officials, non governmental experts and other specialists from around the world to discuss the growing trend of people affected by natural disasters.A WCDR conference was held in Kobe,… … Wikipedia
Natural disaster — Not to be confused with environmental disaster. A natural disaster is the effect of a natural hazard (e.g., flood, tornado, hurricane, volcanic eruption, earthquake, heatwave, or landslide). It leads to financial, environmental or human losses.… … Wikipedia
Disaster 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… … Wikipedia
Disaster research — deals with conducting field and survey research on group, organizational and community preparation for, response to, and recovery from natural and technological disasters and other community wide crises. The purpose behind this field of research… … Wikipedia
Disaster — For other uses, see Disaster (disambiguation). Ruins from the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, remembered as one of the worst natural disasters in United States history A disaster is a natural or man made hazard that has come to fruition, resulting … Wikipedia
Disaster medicine — is the area of physician medical specialization serving the dual areas of providing medical care to disaster survivors and providing medically related disaster preparation, disaster planning, disaster response and disaster recovery leadership… … Wikipedia
Disaster film — Disaster movie redirects here. For the film, see Disaster Movie. A disaster film is a film genre that has an impending or ongoing disaster (such as a damaged airliner, fire, shipwreck, an asteroid collision or natural calamities) as its subject.… … Wikipedia
Disaster convergence — is the phenomenon of individuals or groups moving towards a disaster stricken area. Convergers have many reasons for heading towards a disaster area. Kendra and Wachtendorf (2002) identified seven distinct categories of convergers. These… … Wikipedia
World War II — the war between the Axis and the Allies, beginning on September 1, 1939, with the German invasion of Poland and ending with the surrender of Germany on May 8, 1945, and of Japan on August 14, 1945. Abbr.: WWII * * * or Second World War (1939–45)… … Universalium
World War I — the war fought mainly in Europe and the Middle East, between the Central Powers and the Allies, beginning on July 28, 1914, and ending on November 11, 1918, with the collapse of the Central Powers. Abbr.: WWI Also called Great War, War of the… … Universalium
