Glossary
Glossary
Contains terms and definitions used in the reference book, the project and the structure of the Ontology.
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ActorPertaining to an organization, an institution and a community whose actions may have influence on the formation, propagation and accumulation of risk. | |
AdaptationThe ability of a system to adjust in response to actual or changing expectations in climate or other drivers of risk. | |
Adaptive solutions (or measures)Those solutions that can provide the necessary flexibility of social and technical structures in response to ever changing natural, social and technical processes. | |
AEPAnnual Exceedance Probability (the probability that a given total rainfall accumulated over a given duration will be exceeded in any one year (e.g., 10% AEP). | |
AgentPertaining to people, institutions, governments, technologies and other entities. | |
Agent based modelA class of computational models for simulating the actions and interactions of autonomous agents (both individual or collective entities such as organizations or groups) with a view to assessing their effects on the system as a whole. It combines elements of game theory, complex systems, emergence, computational sociology, multi-agent systems, and evolutionary programming. | |
AlternativeA set of flood resilient measures (see also definition of strategy). | |
ARIAverage Reccurence Interval (the average, or expected, value of the periods between the exceedances of a given rainfall total accumulated over a given duration (e.g., 10-yearARI). | |
Asset managementA comprehensive and structured approach to the long-term management of assets to serve the needs of urban communities. | |