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Descriptor English: Disaster Warning
Descriptor Spanish: Alerta en Desastres
Descriptor alerta de desastres
Entry term(s) advertencia
alerta
alertas
Scope note: Evaluación de los métodos para alertar a una comunidad de un desastre inminente. Incluye técnicas educativas para una respuesta eficaz.
Descriptor Portuguese: Alerta em Desastres
Descriptor French: Alerte de Catastrophe
Entry term(s): Alerts
Warning
Tree number(s): SP8.570.747.683
Scope note: Communication measure to warn of some type of danger or imminent threat in order to be vigilant and prepare to avoid or reduce risks and impacts arising from the danger or threat. Threats that can generate disasters arise from natural events (including extreme weather events, geological events, and biological events), from anthropogenic actions on the environment, or from environmental degradation. (Adapted from: WHO EDRM Framework (2019))
Allowable Qualifiers: EC economics
HI history
LJ legislation & jurisprudence
MT methods
OG organization & administration
SN statistics & numerical data
ST standards
TD trends
DeCS ID: 22765
Unique ID: DDCS022765
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Disaster Warning - Preferred
Concept UI FD00057892
Scope note Communication measure to warn of some type of danger or imminent threat in order to be vigilant and prepare to avoid or reduce risks and impacts arising from the danger or threat. Threats that can generate disasters arise from natural events (including extreme weather events, geological events, and biological events), from anthropogenic actions on the environment, or from environmental degradation. (Adapted from: WHO EDRM Framework (2019))
Preferred term Disaster Warning
Entry term(s) Alerts
Warning



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