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Disaster risk assessment

A qualitative or quantitative approach to determine the nature and extent of disaster risk by analysing potential hazards and evaluating existing conditions of exposure and vulnerability that together could harm people, property, services, livelihoods and the environment on which they depend.

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