Hazards, disasters and your community: a primer for parliamentarians

This report addresses disasters that are the product of a hazard such as earthquake, flood or wind storm coinciding with a vulnerable situation which might include communities, cities or villages. There are two main components in this definition: hazard and vulnerability. Without vulnerability or hazard there is no disaster. A disaster occurs when hazards and vulnerability meet. This publication describes the main hazards and the major measures to reduce communities' vulnerability to them.