terminology
Across
- 3. the fact of experiencing something or being affected by it because of being in a particular situation or place
- 6. the ability of a system, community or society exposed to hazards to resist, absorb, accommodate, adapt to, transform and recover from the effects of a hazard in a timely and efficient manner
- 8. services such as water, energy, sanitation,communications and transportation.
- 11. average in amount, intensity, quality, or degree
- 13. extremely bad or serious,causing very great pain, difficulty, worry, damage
- 15. harm caused to property and infrastructure such as homes, roads, bridges, and communication systems
- 16. The bringing together of organizations and resources in accordance with the requirements imposed by the threat or impact of the emergency
Down
- 1. Any asset,physical,human,economic or environmental which can be used to assist in achieving the objectives of the plan
- 2. Arrangements to ensure that, should a disaster occur, all those resources and services which are needed to cope with the effects can be efficiently deployed.
- 4. Measures, structural and non-structural, taken to reduce the impact of disasters
- 5. The provision of immediate shelter, life support and human needs of persons affected by a disaster
- 7. A range of operational activities concerned with supply,handling, transportation, and distribution of materials.
- 9. Regulatory or physical measures to ensure that disasters are prevented or their effects mitigated.
- 10. Public facilities and systems that provide basic life
- 12. the removal of persons or things from an endangered area
- 14. A set of prevailing or consequential conditions composed of physical, socioeconomic and/or political factors that adversely affect the ability to respond to disasters