Resilience glossaries
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Queensland
The Queensland Disaster Management Lexicon (the Lexicon) establishes a resource for common language within the Queensland disaster management sector. The Lexicon promotes a shared situational awareness during events, contextualised to Queensland's disaster management arrangements. This shared languages enables a greater degree of interoperability across State and federal agencies, local councils and non-government organisations involved in all phases of disaster management in Queensland. The Lexicon aims to not only provide a clear definition for terms used across the disaster management sector, but also clarify the relationship between similar terms used.
(External link to https://www.igem.qld.gov.au/lexicon)
(External link to https://www.igem.qld.gov.au/lexicon)
Queensland's Prevention, Preparedness, Response and Recovery Disaster Management Guideline has been developed to provide guidance to local, district and state disaster management stakeholders with regard to their functions, obligations and legislative requirements under the Disaster Management Act 2003. This glossary relates to the guideline.
(External link to https://www.disaster.qld.gov.au/dmg/Glossary/Pages/default.aspx)
(External link to https://www.disaster.qld.gov.au/dmg/Glossary/Pages/default.aspx)
The Disaster Management Act 2003 includes definitions related to the Act.
(External link to https://www.legislation.qld.gov.au/view/pdf/inforce/current/act-2003-091)
(External link to https://www.legislation.qld.gov.au/view/pdf/inforce/current/act-2003-091)
Australia
The Glossary provides a consensus on terms and definitions or information on the range of terms and definitions encountered in disaster and emergency management to account for jurisdictional and contextual variation.
(External link to https://knowledge.aidr.org.au/glossary/?wordOfTheDayId=&keywords=&alpha=&page=1&results=50&order=AZ)
(External link to https://knowledge.aidr.org.au/glossary/?wordOfTheDayId=&keywords=&alpha=&page=1&results=50&order=AZ)
International
The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction has provided a webpage on Terminology that provides basic definitions on disaster risk reduction to promote a common understanding on the subject for use by the public, authorities and practitioners.
(External link to https://www.undrr.org/terminology)
(External link to https://www.undrr.org/terminology)
(External link to https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/SR15_AnnexI.pdf)
This Glossary is designed for the policymakers, practitioners and other stakeholders who work in the many fields that contribute to reducing the health risks and consequences of all types of emergencies and disasters. It was developed to remedy the lack of standardized terminology in the field of Health Emergency and Disaster Risk Management (Health EDRM), which had become apparent during the process of establishing the WHO Health Emergencies Programme and developing the Health EDRM Framework.
(External link to https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789240003699)
(External link to https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789240003699)