Efforts aimed to develop human skills or societal infrastructure within a community or organization needed to reduce the level of risk, or the effects of a disaster. (From the U.N. International Strategy for Disaster Reduction)
Federal Emergency Management Agency, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Glossary/Acronyms, Washington, DC, USA 2014. https://www.fema.gov/glossary/acronyms-0, (Dzstr Red - Amer) {811}