Crisis Management: (1) Primary focus on hazards and disaster events (2) Single, event-based scenarios (3) Basic responsibility to respond to an event. (4) Often fixed, location-specific conditions (5) Responsibility in single authority or agency (6) Command and control, directed operations (7) Established hierarchical relationships (8) Often focused on hardware and equipment (9) Dependent on specialized expertise (10). Urgent, immediate and short time frames in outlook, planning, attention, returns (11) Rapidly changing, dynamic information usage, often conflicting or sensitive (12) Primary, authorized or singular information sources, need for definitive facts (13) Directed, 'need to know' basis of information dissemination, availability (14) Operational, or public information based on use of communications (15) In-out or vertical flows of information (16) Relates to matters of public security, safety Disaster Risk Reduction Strategies: (1) Primary focus on vulnerability and risk issues (2) Dynamic, multiple risk issues and development scenarios (3) Fundamental need to assess, monitor and update exposure to changing conditions (4) Extended, changing, shared or regional, local variations (5) Involves multiple authorities, interests, actors (6) Situation-specific functions, free association (7) Shifting, fluid and tangential relationships (8) Dependent on related practices, abilities, and knowledge base (9) Specialized expertise, squared with public views, priorities (10) Comparative, moderate and long time frames in outlook, planning, values, returns (11) Accumulated, historical, layered, updated, or comparative use of information (12) Open or public information, multiple, diverse or changing sources, differing perspectives, points of view. (13) Multiple use, shared exchange, intersectoral use of information (14) Matrix, nodal communication (15) Dispersed, lateral flows of information (16) Matters of public interest, investment and safety. (UN ISDR, Living With Risk, Chapter 1, 2002, p. 13)