Processes to design, apply and evaluate strategies, policies and measures aimed at: improving the understanding of disaster risks, fostering risk reduction and financial protection from disaster risks, and promoting the continuous improvement of preparedness, response and recovery practices, with the explicit objective of increasing human security, well - being, quality of life, resilience and sustainable development.
NOTE: Risk management constitutes a development policy that is indispensable for ensuring territorial sustainability and security and collective rights and interests, and is therefore intrinsically associated to safe development planning and sustainable territorial environmental management in all levels of government.