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Disaster risk
The potential loss of life, injury, or destroyed or damaged assets which could occur to a system, society or a community in a specific period of time, determined probabilistically as a function of hazard, exposure, vulnerability and capacity.
Glossary Source
UNDRR 2016
(
UNDRR - Report of the open-ended intergovernmental expert working group on indicators and terminology relating to disaster risk reduction
)
https://www.undrr.org/terminology