User:StudentOfLif/WikiProjectRisk
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WikiProject User Group
WikiProject Risk and WikiProject Disaster Mangement are inactive WikiProjects dedicated to the multidisciplinary study of risk. This user group page is a space to coordinate, plan, and evaluate efforts to revive WikiProject Risk or WikiProject Disaster Mangement.
Members and Scope
The scope of this user group depends on the expertise of its users. Please add your usertag under the appropriate subject heading.
Disaster Risk Reduction
Editorial Guidelines
Wikipedia articles should treat their subjects fairly and rely upon claims made by secondary sources. Sources should be reliable, subjects notable, and good faith exercised. Stricter guidelines apply to biographies and fringe theories. Wikipedia is a free encyclopedia, no more and no less.
When in doubt, be bold and ignore all rules.
Goals
Long Term
Medium Term
- Organize an active user group of 5 editors
- Identify 500 articles relevant to the topic of risk
- Further develop editorial guidelines for issues of conflicting definitions, editor specialization, categorization and others if and as needed.
Short Term
- Two active editors by 2026-06-30
- Procedures to nominate, evaluate, and format articles for inclusion in offline reference by 2026-06-30
- Offline Reference project write-up, userpage, and set-up by 2026-06-30
Tasks
- Identify and contact potentially interested student editors
- Create To Do list or other editing procedures
- Begin Offline Reference page
- Outline OR workflow
- Outline purpose statement for OR
- Goals and strats statement for Offline Reference
Glossary
Many terms within the study of risk have multiple definitions. To maintain clarity and prevent miscommunication, please refer to and periodically update this glossary.
[Discipline with wikilink]
- [TERM]:[definition with citation]
- DISASTER RISK: "Disaster risk is the consequence of the interaction between a hazard and the characteristics that make people and places vulnerable and exposed."[1]
- EXPOSURE: "The situation of people, infrastructure, housing, production capacities and other tangible human assets located in hazard-prone areas."[1]
- HAZARD: "A hazard is a process, phenomenon or human activity that may cause loss of life, injury or other health impacts, property damage, social and economic disruption or environmental degradation. Hazards may be natural, anthropogenic or socionatural in origin."[1]
- VULNERABILITY: "The characteristics determined by physical, social, economic and environmental factors or processes which increase the susceptibility of an individual, a community, assets or systems to the impacts of hazards."[1]
Articles
Disaster Risk Reduction
- Emergency management
- Disaster Risk Reduction
- Disaster
- Natural disaster
- Community resilience
- Natural risk
- Adaptive capacity
- United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
- Hazard
- Vulnerability
- Emergency management
- Flood management
- Landslide mitigation
- Tropical cyclone preparedness
- Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction
- Residual risk
- Preparedness
- Disaster response
- Hazard map
- Anticipatory action
- Earthquake
- Flood
- Tsunami
- Heat wave
- Sandstorm
- Blizzard
- Landslide
- Wildfire
- Sea level rise
- Disaster response
References
- "Understanding disaster risk: foundational concepts and principles". PreventionWeb. UNDRR. Retrieved 2026-01-23.