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Disaster
A serious disruption of the functioning of a community or a society at any scale due to hazardous events interacting with conditions of exposure, vulnerability and capacity, leading to one or more of the following: human, material, economic and environmental losses and impacts.
Glossary Source
UNDRR 2016
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UNDRR - Report of the open-ended intergovernmental expert working group on indicators and terminology relating to disaster risk reduction
)
https://www.undrr.org/terminology