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The Risk Data Library Standard (RDLS) is an open data standard to make it easier to work with disaster and climate risk data. It provides a common description of the data used and produced in risk assessments, including hazard, exposure, vulnerability, and modelled loss, or impact, data.
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[Taxonomies] Add explanation to Hazard taxonomies section about RDL taxonomy becoming codelists #155

Closed odscjen closed 1 year ago

odscjen commented 1 year ago

The RDL Hazard taxonomy has been shifted into a pair of codelists, add a sentence or two explaining this to Hazard taxonomies section.

matamadio commented 1 year ago

The current text fits the purpose, with some edits to make clear we have our taxonomy as derived from existing ones:

The RDLS hazard taxonomy can accommodate most natural hazard types and processes. The RDL project performed a review of the most relevant hazard taxonomies and derived a classification focusing on those hazards and processes that are more often required in disaster risk assessments, while mapping and matching alternative definitions into one consistent framework.

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There are several existing taxonomies that have been considered to classify hazard data into one consistent list:

odscjen commented 1 year ago

Closing as the restructure in #175 provides this clarity