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Home Preparedness
In the modern world, people need to learn how to live with risks and natural hazards. Most natural hazards cannot be prevented, but individuals and households can prepare themselves to avoid injury, minimize damage to the home, and survive afterward for at least 72 hours without outside help.
Reducing Vulnerability
The core concept of disaster preparedness is vulnerability, or risk reduction. Hazards lead to disasters only when they coincide with the vulnerable points of populations and systems. Vulnerability corresponds to the conditions or characteristics of persons, groups, and systems that influence their capacity to anticipate, cope with, resist, and recover from the impact of hazards. It is determined by physical, social, economic, and environmental factors or processes. The concept of reducing vulnerability usually concerns different levels (governmental, ...
- Africa, North
- American Red Cross
- History of Disaster Relief, Africa
- Chemical Disasters
- Air Transport
- Community Preparedness
- First Aid
- Agricultural Production
- Incentives, Intergovernmental and Intersystem
- Avalanches
- Bilateral Versus Multilateral Aid
- Intergovernmental Relations and Preparedness
- Private Sector, Role in Recovery
- Private Sector, Role in Response
- Data Processing
- Causes of Complex Emergencies
- United States, California and West Coast
- Africa, Sub-Saharan
- Center for International Disaster Information (CIDI)
- History of Disaster Relief, Ancient World
- Cyberattacks
- Food Distribution Infrastructure
- Community Response
- Bubonic Plague
- Hysteria
- Business Continuity Planning
- Mitigation, Benefits and Costs of
- Diseases
- Domestic Corruption in International Disasters
- Planning for Disasters, International
- Recovery, International
- Response, Management Strategies
- Early Warning and Prediction Systems
- Cross-Cultural Interactions
- United States, Great Lakes
- Asia, East
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
- History of Disaster Relief, China and East Asia
- Economic Disasters
- Internet
- Evacuation
- HIV/AIDS
- Pandemic Planning
- Citizen Preparedness Programs
- Private Sector, Role in Mitigation
- Droughts
- Domestic Politics in International Disasters
- Planning for Disasters, Local
- Recovery, Local
- Response, Operational Strategies
- Funding, U.S.
- Cycles of a Disaster
- United States, Hawaii and Pacific Territories
- Asia, West, Central, and South
- ChildFund International
- History of Disaster Relief, Europe
- Food Contamination Disasters
- Mass Transit
- Fire Departments
- Malaria (20th Century-Present)
- Panic
- Panic
- Cooperation Between Civilian and Military Agencies
- Public Sector, Role in Mitigation
- Earthquakes
- Donations, National
- Planning for Disasters, National
- Recovery, National
- Global Warming
- Disaster Experience
- United States, Mid-Atlantic
- Australia and Pacific Region
- Coast Guard, U.S.
- History of Disaster Relief, India
- Gulf Coast Oil Spill (2010)
- Ports
- Home Preparedness
- Measles (1850-Present)
- Psychology, Mass
- Crisis Management
- Public-Private Interactions in Mitigation
- Fires, Forest
- Donations, Personal
- Political Support for Preparedness
- Recovery, Phases of
- Response, Stress Impacts of
- Modeling
- Education
- United States, Midwest
- Canada
- Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere (CARE)
- History of Disaster Relief, Middle East
- Pandemic/Biological Accidents
- Railroads
- Local Hazards
- Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)
- Psychology, Personal
- Education
- Regulatory Approaches to Mitigation
- Fires, Urban
- Funding of International Relief
- Preparedness, Function of
- Recovery, Role of Governments in
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
- Emergency Management Resources
- United States, Mountain States
- Caribbean Island Region
- Defense, U.S. Department of Direct Relief
- History of Disaster Relief, North America
- Poverty and Disasters
- Roads
- Municipal Offices of Emergency Management
- Smallpox (20th Century)
- Social Work
- Emergency Response Guidelines and Regulations
- Risk, Government Assumption of
- Floods
- Fundraising Cycles
- Preparedness Policy Implementation
- Real-Time Communications
- Ethics of Charity Relief
- United States, National
- China
- Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Response Associations
- History of Disaster Relief, Pacific Region
- Radiation Disasters
- Schools
- Personal Preparedness
- Tuberculosis (20th Century-Present)
- Stress Syndromes
- Emergency Rooms
- Risk, Individual Assumption of
- Heat Waves
- Politics in International Funding
- Private Sector, Role in Preparedness
- Research
- Ethnicity and Minority Status Effects on Preparedness
- United States, Northeast
- Desertification
- Doctors Without Borders
- History of Disaster Relief, Russia
- Terrorism
- Utilities
- Police Departments
- Earthquakes
- Survivor Guilt
- Evacuation Planning
- Structural (Engineering) Options for Mitigation
- Hurricanes/Typhoons
- Rejection of International Aid
- Research-Based Disaster Planning
- Technology
- Gender and Disasters
- United States, Northwest and Northern Plains
- Earthquake Zones
- Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
- History of Disaster Relief, South America
- Wars
- Water Systems
- Private Sector Preparedness
- Famine
- Working With the Bereaved
- Evacuation, Types of
- Landslides
- Technology, Military
- Human Rights
- United States, Southeast and Gulf Coast
- Europe, Eastern
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
- Public Agency Preparedness
- Fire
- Exercise Planning
- Pest Invasions
- Humanitarian Intervention Versus Humanitarian Action
- United States, Southwest
- Europe, Western
- Habitat for Humanity
- Public-Private Partnerships
- Floods
- Food Distribution Systems
- Sea Surges
- Income Inequality and Disaster Relief
- Evacuation Routes
- Homeland Security, U.S. Department of Institutional Coordination
- University Preparedness
- Hurricanes
- Healthcare
- Tornadoes
- Laws
- Glacial Melt
- InterAction
- Warnings
- Terrorist Attacks
- Hospital Preparedness
- Tsunamis
- Personal Preparedness
- Hurricane Zones
- International Law in the Prevention and Mitigation of Disasters
- Tsunami
- International Standards
- Volcanoes
- Politics, Domestic
- Japan
- International Medical Corps
- Volcanoes
- Language Issues and Barriers
- Winter Storms
- Politics in International Funding
- Mediterranean Region
- International Red Cross
- Wars
- Levels of Nutrition
- Protection of Civilians in Conflict Zones
- Mexico
- Interpol
- Mass Casualty Management
- Public Policy
- Middle East
- Lutheran World Federation
- Media
- Refugees
- Ring of Fire
- Mercy Corps
- National Incident Management System (NIMS)
- Relief Versus Development
- Russia
- National Governments
- National Standards
- Risk Communications
- South America
- Peace Corps
- Packaging and Tracing of Food
- Risk Management
- United Kingdom
- Red Crescent Society
- Paramedics
- Risk Perceptions
- United States, California and West Coast
- Relief International
- Political Economy of Food
- Social Impact of Disasters
- United States, Great Lakes
- Relief Rules
- Provision of Food in Disasters
- Training for Disasters
- United States, Hawaii and Pacific Territories
- Salvation Army
- Refugee Policy
- Victimology
- United States, Mid-Atlantic
- St. Vincent de Paul
- Refugees, Care of
- United States, Midwest
- State Governments
- Reserve Storage and Transport
- United States, Mountain States
- United Nations
- Transportation
- United States, National
- United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
- Vulnerable Populations
- United States, Northeast
- United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
- United States, Northwest and Northern Plains
- United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
- United States, Southeast and Gulf Coast
- United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
- United States, Southwest
- World Concern
- World Emergency Relief
- World Food Program
- World Health Organization (WHO)
- World Relief
- World Vision
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