- Home
- EMBRACE Glossary of Terms
- Evacuation
Evacuation
Moving people and assets temporarily to safer places before, during or after the occurrence of a hazardous event in order to protect them.
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