The ability of systems, institutions, humans and other organisms to adjust to potential damage, to take advantage of opportunities, or to respond to consequences.

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.

Disaster risk reduction is aimed at preventing new and reducing existing disaster risk and managing residual risk, all of which contribute to strengthening resilience and therefore to the achievement of sustainable development.

The situation of people, infrastructure, housing, production capacities and other tangible human assets located in hazard-prone areas.

A process, phenomenon or human activity that may cause loss of life, injury or other health impacts, property damage, social and economic disruption or environmental degradation.

Representative concentration pathways (RCP) or emission scenarios are greenhouse gas concentration trajectories adopted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to describe four possible climate futures, depending on how much greenhouse gases are emitted in the years to come. In RCP 4.5, emissions peak around 2040, then decline. In RCP 8.5, emissions continue to rise throughout the 21st century.

The ability of a system, community or society exposed to hazards to resist, absorb, accommodate, adapt to, transform and recover from the effects of a hazard in a timely and efficient manner, including through the preservation and restoration of its essential basic structures and functions through risk management.

The potential for adverse consequences where something of value is at stake and where the occurrence and degree of an outcome is uncertain.

The conditions determined by physical, social, economic and environmental factors or processes which increase the susceptibility of an individual, a community, assets or systems to the impacts of hazards.