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Descriptor English: Civil Protection
Descriptor Spanish: Protección Civil
Descriptor protección civil
Scope note: Acciones organizadas de planificación, formación, PREPARACIÓN y respuesta a todas las emergencias a nivel local y nacional, con el fin de proteger a la POBLACIÓN civil en caso de catástrofe natural, desastre provocado por el hombre o GUERRA. Como término más amplio que incluye todo los tipos de PELIGROS, el término se prefiere ahora, y cubre, a la DEFENSA CIVIL. (Traducción libre del original: Material V - Gunn, S.W.A. Multilingual Dictionary of Disaster Medicine and International Relief, 1990)
Descriptor Portuguese: Proteção Civil
Descriptor French: Protection Civile
Tree number(s): SH1.050.313.562
SP8.855
Scope note: The organized actions of planning, training, preparedness and response to all emergences at the local and national levels, with the view to protecting the civilian population in case of natural catastrophe, man-made disaster or war. As a wider, all-hazards approach, the term is now preferred to and covers civil defence. (Material V - Gunn, S.W.A. Multilingual Dictionary of Disaster Medicine and International Relief, 1990)
Allowable Qualifiers: No qualifiers
DeCS ID: 35004
Unique ID: DDCS035004
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Civil Protection - Preferred
Concept UI FD00060867
Scope note The organized actions of planning, training, preparedness and response to all emergences at the local and national levels, with the view to protecting the civilian population in case of natural catastrophe, man-made disaster or war. As a wider, all-hazards approach, the term is now preferred to and covers civil defence. (Material V - Gunn, S.W.A. Multilingual Dictionary of Disaster Medicine and International Relief, 1990)
Preferred term Civil Protection



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