GC: n
S: PAHO – https://www3.paho.org/disasters/dmdocuments/edan-mh-including-annexes.pdf (last access: 4 July 2024); UN – https://palestine.un.org/en/265025-gaza-strip-interim-damage-assessment (last access: 4 July 2024).
N: 1. – damage (n): c. 1300, “harm, injury; hurt or loss to person, character, or estate,” from Old French damage, domage “loss caused by injury” (12c., Modern French dommage), from dam “damage,” from Latin damnum “loss, hurt, damage” (see damn). In law (as damages) “the value in money of what was lost or withheld, that which is given to repair a cost,” from c. 1400. Colloquial sense of “cost, expense” is by 1755. Damage control “action taken to limit the effect of an accident or error” is attested by 1933 in U.S. Navy jargon.
– asessment (n): 1530s, “value of property for tax purposes,” from assess + -ment. The meaning “act of determining or adjusting of tax rate, charges, damages, etc., to be paid” is from 1540s (earlier in this sense was assession, mid-15c.). The general sense of “estimation” is recorded from 1620s; in education jargon by 1956.
- Abbreviation: DA.
2. Process for determining the nature and extent of the loss, suffering, and/or harm to the community resulting from a natural, accidental or human-caused disaster.
3. Damage assessment provides situational awareness and critical information on:
- Type, scope and severity of the event
- Impact on individuals and communities
- Additional resource needs
- Justification for disaster declaration
- Emergency public information
- Future hazard mitigation projects
4. Emergency Management; Protection of Property: A process used to determine the magnitude of damage caused by an incident and, more specifically, its effects on physical, economic and natural resources, as well as the unmet needs of individuals, businesses, the public sector and the community.
5. damage assessment; DA: term, abbreviation and definition standardized by the Canadian Capability-Based Planning Terminology Committee and the Translation Bureau (Canada).
S: 1. Etymonline – https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=damage+assessment (last access: 4 July 2024); TERMIUM PLUS – https://www.btb.termiumplus.gc.ca/tpv2alpha/alpha-eng.html?lang=eng&i=1&srchtxt=damage+assessment&index=alt&codom2nd_wet=1#resultrecs (last access: 4 July 2024). 2 & 3. EMA CLERM – https://ema.clermontcountyohio.gov/damage-assessment/ (last access: 4 July 2024). 4 & 5. TERMIUM PLUS – https://www.btb.termiumplus.gc.ca/tpv2alpha/alpha-eng.html?lang=eng&i=1&srchtxt=damage+assessment&index=alt&codom2nd_wet=1#resultrecs (last access: 4 July 2024).
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CR: emergency aid
