On the relationship between disaster risk science and risk science

Risk disaster science aims to improve our knowledge on hazardous events and related consequences, their mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery, as well as how to support decision making on the best way to handle such events and consequences. Risk science addresses many of the same types of issues, with its focus on concepts, principles, theories, models, approaches, and methods for understanding, assessing, communicating, and handling risk, with applications. This article aims to clarify how these fields and sciences relate to each other; what are the overlaps, and in what ways do they differ? The article argues that disaster risk science can be viewed as applied risk science. The implications of such a perspective are discussed and measures suggested for how to enhance these fields and their interactions.