Latest Consultative Process to Update the “2009 UNISDR Terminology on Disaster Risk Reduction” Dr. Delilah al Khudhairy Global Security and Crisis Management Unit Institute for the Protection and Security of the Citizen Palais des Nations, Geneva 4 September 2015

Technical Briefing on Terminology

UNISDR’s 2nd Inter-governmental Preparatory Committee Meeting (PREPCOM2) in Geneva (Nov 2014) Disagreement on terms:

7 countries vote to replace Disaster Risk Management (DRM) by Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), while seven others vote not to …

Need to define terms clearly and unequivocally

Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction Scientific and Technical Advisory Group

Terminology for SFDRR Scope, Targets, Indicator and Monitoring Framework

• Need for clear definitions e.g.

Affected people

Disaster Direct disaster economic loss

Critical infrastructure

Basic services Multi-Hazard early warning system Disaster risk information

UNISDR STAG – Terminology working group International Team of Experts

• Members

• all continents

• different organisation types (international organisations, national governments,

private, scientific organisations, …)

• different expertise (health-related, physics of disasters, economists, operational

agencies, DRR practitioners, …).

• Consultation process

• Mid 2014 – August 2015

• Workshops, meetings, telconfs., email correspondence

Similar Consultation Process for DRR Terminology Updates

2002 2004 2005 2009 2015

Methodology and Consultation Process (1)

• Phase 1 (September 2014 – February 2015) 53 UNISDR-2009 terms Propose updated definitions for ‘key’ terms

• Phase 2 (March – August 2015) Identification of ‘key’ terms, including new terms, in the Adopted SFDRR, that need to be

defined Propose definitions

Proposed Updated terminology on DRR for the OEWG on Indicators and Terminology

Report on the technical Review Proposed, updated, definitions for existing and new terms

Methodology and Consultation Process (2) Phase 1: Systematically update the definition of the top ten

most used terms of the 53 UNISDR-2009 terms • Statistical corpus-based usage analysis of the terms over 15 years • Observations:

– Most commonly used terms: Risk, Disaster, Response, Capacity, Hazard, Vulnerability, Mitigation, Preparedness, Prevention

– Terms with growing usage: Climate Change, Adaptation, Resilience – Most commonly used definitions: UNISDR-2009, Global Assessment Report,

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, International Organization for Standardisation (ISO)

Phase 2: Propose definitions for terms in the SFDRR Especially those used in the formulations of the scope and the targets.

– Review definitions produced in Phase 1 – Proposals for new definitions – Final result: definition proposals for 81 terms

DRR Corpus (English) Purpose: • Analyse real-life DRRM term usage over

time

• Identify new frequently used terms

Size: >30,000 documents Sources: • PreventionWeb

• Google Scholar, Springer Link, Science

Direct

• Private sector documents

• Conference web sites

Resources

DRR Collection of Glossaries (English)

Number of glossaries: 221 Objective: • Analysis of existing definitions for a given

term, and their variance

• Ensure inclusion of all important aspects.

• Use as basic definition if useful and refine

(Most used source: UNISDR 2009;

also used: GAR, IPCC, UNFCCC, …)

.

Resources

Results of the Update Process ‘Definition’ proposals for 81 terms • Produced by international team of specialists.

• Detailed minutes of the discussions that

explain the choices;

• Based on 15-year term usage analysis;

• Based on well-established definitions

A Technical Review • To inform the Open-Ended Intergovernmental

Expert Group on Indicators and Terminology

• Main Features

• History of DRR Terminology, Methodology

and Consultation Process

• Proposed Updated DRR Terminology

List of Proposed Updated terms (81)

Disaster risk Extensive risk Intensive risk Underlying disaster risk drivers

Climate change Greenhouse gases Adaptation

El Niño-southern oscillation phenomenon

Sustainable development Environmental

degradation Vulnerability Exposure

Environmental impact assessment

Ecosystem services Land-use planning

Capacity Capacity development Building code

Retrofitting Resilience Coping capacity

Risk Risk assessment

Disaster risk reduction National platform for disaster

risk reduction Peer review Disaster risk reduction plan

Disaster risk governance Acceptable risk Risk transfer Financial protection Residual risk Risk information Public awareness Structural and non-structural measures

Disaster management Disaster risk management Prospective disaster risk

management* Prevention

Compensatory disaster risk management

Corrective disaster risk management Mitigation Preparedness

Early warning system Multi-hazard early

warning system Forecast

Response Emergency management Contingency planning Emergency services

Recovery Reconstruction Rehabilitation Build back better

Based on 2004 Terminology Based on 2009 Terminology or adapted New Term 2015 List of terms defined (81)

List of terms defined (81) Hazard Natural hazard Hydro-meteorological hazard Geological hazard Biological hazard

Man-made hazard Technological hazard Socio-natural hazard Environmental hazard Disaster impact

Affected people Directly affected Killed Injured or ill Displaced Relocated Evacuated

Indirectly affected Disaster damage Basic services Critical infrastructure

Economic loss Direct economic loss Replacement cost

Indirect economic loss

Disaster (small-scale, large-scale, frequent and infrequent, slow-onset, sudden-onset)

Based on 2004 Terminology Based on 2009 Terminology or adapted New Term 2015

Hazardous event