灾难,灾难,和灾变是一些描述不良事件严重程度的英语术语。平民,记者,和专业人员经常使用这些术语来沟通和报告任何事件的严重性。这种语言方法是最实用的方法,以迅速达到各级地方/区域/国家,灾害期间的国际利益相关者。因此,灾害术语在灾害管理中起着重要作用。然而,要达到灾难严重程度的实际程度,不能仅仅通过使用这些术语来理解,因为它们可以互换使用。不幸的是,没有一致的方法来区分灾害术语。此外,没有全球公认的标准技术来传达灾难发生时的严重程度;一个观察者的“灾难”可以是另一个“灾难”。因此,当应急管理系统之间没有商定的术语时,一个国家管理极端事件的能力是困难的。需要一个标准的严重性分类系统来理解,沟通,报告,并教育利益相关者。本文介绍了人们对不同地理区域灾难术语的看法,灾难词汇和词汇的排名和差异。它探讨了人们如何看待重大事件(例如,Covid-19大流行),并提出了灾害术语的排名,以创建适合全球使用的严重性分类系统。
Disaster, catastrophe, and cataclysm are some English terminologies that describe the severity of adverse events. Civilians, reporters, and professionals often use these terminologies to communicate and report any event\'s severity. This linguistic method is the most practical way to rapidly reach all levels of local/regional/national, and international stakeholders during disasters. Therefore,
disaster terminologies play a significant role in
disaster management. However, attaining the actual magnitude of a
disaster\'s severity cannot be comprehended simply by using these terminologies because they are used interchangeably. Unfortunately, there is no consistent method to differentiate
disaster terminologies from one another. Additionally, no globally accepted standard technique exists to communicate the severity level when disasters strike; one observer\'s \'disaster\' can be another\'s \'catastrophe\'. Hence, a nation\'s ability to manage extreme events is difficult when there are no agreed terminologies among emergency management systems. A standard severity classification system is required to understand, communicate, report, and educate stakeholders. This paper presents perceptions of people about disaster terminologies in different geographical regions, rankings and differences in
disaster lexical and lexicon. It explores how people perceive major events (e.g., the Covid-19 pandemic), and proposes a ranking of disaster terminologies to create a severity classification system suitable for global use.