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Child-Friendly Glossary

THE WORDS WE USE WITH CHILDREN CAN TOUCH THEM DEEPLY OR BE TOO COMPLEX, RISKING EVEN MORE CONFUSION ABOUT EXTREMELY DELICATE AND IMPORTANT CONCEPTS.

THIS GLOSSARY IS INTENDED TO BE A work-in-progress CATEGORISATION TOOL OF THE MOST FREQUENT TERMS WHEN TALKING ABOUT DISASTER RISK REDUCTION AND VULNERABILITY.

THE CATEGORISATION CAN BE further ENRICHED BY THE CHILDREN WITH THE HELP OF THE TEACHER.

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Accessibility: the ability to access a place

Alert: the condition following the notification of an imminent danger

Anthropic: everything that refers to a human being or to their activities

Assembly point: a safe place where the population temporarily gathers in the event of an emergency

Biodegradable: a substance that decomposes easily in nature due to the action of bacteria and microorganisms

Crowdsourcing: online project which requires the contribution of many people at the same time.

Connectivity: the ability to be connected with other people through means of communication

Danger: anything that can cause harm to the environment or people

Disaster: an event that causes serious harm and disruption or upheaval to normal life.

Disaster cycle:

DRR: Disaster Risk Reduction

Earthquake: A sudden shaking of the ground resulting from movements in the earth's crust.

Ecosystem: a set of animal and plant species that interact with each other and with the surrounding environment

Emergency: a critical situation that requires urgent or immediate action

Epicentre: the point on the earth's surface that is hit hardest by an earthquake

Exposure: the number of people and elements that can be damaged or affected because they are located in a risk area.

Fire: a destructive event caused by flames

Global warming: increase in the temperature of the Earth's surface due to human activity

Hypocentre: the point of origin of an earthquake from which seismic waves propagate

Landslide: the movement of a large mass of earth, rock or debris down a slope

Magnitude: the energy released by an earthquake

Mitigation: reducing the effects of a disaster.

Pollution: contamination of the environment, caused by human activities

Prediction: the identification of the risks and the causes that determine calamitous phenomena in specific territories

Prevention: The action of reducing vulnerability and exposure by preventing a risk from becoming a disaster.

Resilience: The ability to deal with calamitous events and overcome their effects.

Risk: the possibility that a phenomenon can cause damage to people and the environment in a given period of time and in a given area.

Safety: a condition when an individual is not in danger or when a risk can be prevented, reduced or eliminated.

Threat: probability that a calamitous event of a given intensity will occur in a given place within a given period of time

Toxic cloud: a set of toxic substances which are released into the air in mainly gaseous form, which are very dangerous to inhale

Tsunami: a phenomenon caused by underwater movements that can generate very high waves with potentially disastrous effects, especially on the coasts

Vulnerability: The predisposition to be affected or damaged by a disaster.

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This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under Grant Agreement No. 883490
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