DEFINITION OF DISASTER. âDisaster is a crisis situation that far exceeds the capabilitiesâ . - Quarentelly, 1985. âDisasterâ is defined as a crisis situation causing wide spread damage which far exceeds. our ability to recover . Thus, by definition, there cannot be a perfect ideal system that. prevents damage, because then it would not be a disaster.
Coping. In psychology, a term that refers to a person's patterns of response to stress. Some patterns of coping may lower a person's risk of developing Stockholm syndrome in a hostage situation.
Coping (from cope, Latin capa) consists of the capping or covering of a wall. A splayed or wedge coping slopes in a single direction; a saddle coping slopes to either side of a central high point. A coping may consist of stone (capstone), brick, tile, slate, metal, wood or thatch. In all cases it should be weathered to throw off the water. Various types of copings exist. A diagramatic explanation of copper copings is available.