The terminology of the United Nations International Strategy for United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR) aims to promote a common understanding and common understanding and use of disaster risk reduction concepts and assist disaster risk reduction efforts, as well as to assist in the disaster risk reduction efforts by decision-makers, experts, policy-makers and by decision-makers, experts and the general public. and the general public.

The terminology of the United Nations International Strategy for United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR) aims to promote a common understanding and common understanding and use of disaster risk reduction concepts and assist disaster risk reduction efforts, as well as to assist in the disaster risk reduction efforts by decision-makers, experts, policy-makers and by decision-makers, experts and the general public. and the general public.

This document aims to provide a succinct analysis of the evolution of the notion of risk management, to delimit precisely what specifically is Local Risk Management, and what are the features, facets or parameters that define it as a social process and to take these facets as axes of analysis, offering generic ideas on ways to consider and incorporate them in the promotion of integral local risk management.

In this document, Allan Lavell tries to define and clarify those concepts related to Risk Management and the differences between them.