ahahahahah Flashcards
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is “a sudden, calamitous occurrence that causes great harm, injury, destruction, and devastation to life and property”.
Disaster
caused by natural forces, such as earthquakes, typhoon, volcanic eruptions, hurricanes, fires, tornados, and extreme temperatures.
Natural
Disasters caused by man are those in which major direct causes are identifiable intentional or non-intentional
human actions.
Man-made
ALSO INCREASED DUE TO THE SPREAD OF TECHNOLOGIES INVOLVING NUCLEAR, BIOLOGICAL, AND CHEMICAL AGENTS USED TO DEVELOP WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION.
EXAMPLE: BOMBS OR EXPLOSIONS
Terrorism/Violence
USUALLY USED DESCRIBE HUMANITARIAN EMERGENCY RESULTING FROM AN INTERNATIONAL OR CIVIL WAR.
Complex Humanitarian Emergencies
ONE OF THE MOST IMMEDIATE EFFECTS OF NATURAL DISASTERS IS POPULATION DISPLACEMENT. WHEN COUNTRIES ARE RAVAGED BY EARTHQUAKES OR OTHER POWERFUL FORCES OF NATURE, MANY PEOPLE NEED TO ABANDON THEIR HOMES AND SEEK SHELTER IN OTHER REGIONS.
Displaced population
ASIDE FROM THE OBVIOUS IMMEDIATE DANGER THAT NATURAL DISASTERS PRESENT, THE SECONDARY EFFECT CAN BE JUST AS DAMAGING. SEVERE FLOODING CAN RESULT IN STAGNANT WATER THAT ALLOWS BREEDING OF WATERBORNE BACTERIA AND MALARIA- CARRYING MOSQUITOES.
health risk
THE AFTERMATH OF NATURAL DISASTERS AFFECTS THE FOOD SUPPLIES.
THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD ARE HUNGRY BECAUSE OF DESTROYED CROPS AND LOSS OF AGRICULTURAL SUPPLIES, WHETHER IT HAPPENS SUDDENLY IN A STORM OR GRADUALLY IN A DROUGHT.
Food scarcity
NATURAL DISASTERS CAN BE PARTICULARLY TRAUMATIC FOR YOUNG CHILDREN. CONFRONTED WITH SCENES OF DESTRUCTION AND THE DEATHS OF FRIENDS AND LOVED ONES, MANY CHILDREN DEVELOP POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER (PTSD), A SERIOUS PSYCHOLOGICAL CONDITION RESULTING FROM EXTREME TRAUMA.
Emotional aftershocks
Calamities are phenomena that cause great physical damage in a community infrastructure, its people and their properties, e.g. houses and environmental sources of living
Physical Perspective
Victims of disasters may suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
(PTSD) and other serious mental health conditions, which are not being given much attention to by the authorities or even by the victims, themselves.
psychological perspective
These characteristics are manifested in the country’s recent fight against COVID19. Due to the National Health Emergency, Enhanced Community Quarantine (ECQ) prevailed in the whole country.
Socio-cultural perspective
Implementation of a partial and total shut down of local business operations result to a lot of people losing means of living.
Economic Perspective
Natural disasters are commonly thought to be less politically argumentative than armed conflicts, yet a closer look shows that both the effects of a natural disaster and the resulting distribution of humanitarian aid are profoundly linked to politics.
Political perspective
The disturbing effects caused by a prevalent kind of disease or virus in an epidemic or pandemic level
Biological Perspective
