| EDRM | Emergency and Disaster Risk Management |
| GIS | Geographic Information System |
| GPS | Global Positioning System |
| PRISMA-ScR | Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews |
| STEPS | Social, Temporal, Economic, Physiological, and Social |
| UN | United Nations |
| USA | United States |
| WHO | World Health Organization |