Cycle | Action | Stage | Stage definition |
Risk management | Proactive | Mitigation | Measures designed to reduce, limit or avoid disaster risk. |
Prevention | Priority measures aimed at avoiding the conversion of risk into a disaster or the installation of vulnerabilities. | ||
Preparedness | Measures aimed at optimizing response actions and minimizing damage and loss resulting from the disaster. | ||
Crisis management | Reactive | Response | Emergency measures carried out during or after the occurrence of the disaster, aimed at helping and assisting the affected population and restoring essential services. |
Recovery | Measures developed after the occurrence of the disaster aimed at restoring social normality include the reconstruction of damaged or destroyed infrastructure and the recovery of the environment and the economy. | ||
Restoration | Emergency measures aimed at restoring safety and habitability conditions and essential services to the population in the area affected by the disaster. |