GEMET
General
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Environmental
Thesaurus

Natural risk zones

Definiton

Vulnerable areas characterised according to natural hazards (all atmospheric, hydrologic, seismic, volcanic and wildfire phenomena that, because of their location, severity, and frequency, have the potential to seriously affect society), e.g. floods, landslides and subsidence, avalanches, forest fires, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions.

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Concept URL: http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/theme/nz