Concept information
Preferred term
disaster relief
Definition
- Disaster relief is the assistance provided to individuals, families, and communities to help them cope with disruptive, disorienting events. These events can be caused by natural hazards, like hurricanes, earthquakes, wildfires, or tornadoes, or they can be triggered by humans, such as nuclear accidents, health epidemics, or terrorist attacks. [Source: The Encyclopedia of Political Science; Disaster Relief]
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- disaster mitigation
- disaster prediction
- disaster recovery
- disaster relief and sociology
- disaster relief methods and practices
- disaster response
- earthquakes
- emergency preparedness
- famine
- federal disaster funding
- fire (disaster)
- floods (disaster)
- human-induced disasters
- hurricanes
- local disaster response
- major disasters
- medicine and psychology
- natural disasters
- organizations (disaster relief)
- politics of disaster relief
- terrorist attacks
- tsunamis
- volcanoes
- war (armed conflict)
- war relief
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/disaster_relief
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