Disaster Risk Reduction Management Flashcards
Reason why the Philippines is disaster risk prone
Circum-Pacific
Seismic Belt
Western Pacific Basin
Major Tectonic Plates
Why Disaster Risks in the Philippines are very high
⚬ Disaster exposure
⚬ Vulnerability and susceptibility
⚬ Lack of coping capacity
⚬ Lack of adaptive capacity
Serious disruption of
the functioning of a community or a society
Disaster
Dangerous
phenomenon,
substance, human activity or condition
Hazard
Types of Hazards
Natural
Human-induced
Combination
Characteristics and circumstances of a community, system, or asset
that make it susceptible to the damaging effects of a hazard.
Vulnerability
Combination of all the strengths, attributes and resources available within a community, society or
organization
Capacity
Types of Vulnerability and Capacity
Physical
Social
Economic
Environmental
Attitudinal/Cultural
The degree to which a community is likely to experience hazard events of different
magnitude.
Exposure
Potential disaster
losses in lives, health status, livelihood,
assets and services
Disaster Risk
Elements at Risk
People
Facilities and Services
Livelihood
Environment
Application of policies and strategies to prevent new disaster risk, reduce existing disaster risk and manage residual risk, contributing to the strengthening of resilience and reduction of disaster losses
Disaster Risk Reduction and Management
True or False: There is no such thing as a natural disaster
True, only natural hazards
A disaster occurs when there is a ____________
Hazard, exposure, and vulnerability
It aims to achieve the substantial reduction of disaster risk and losses lives,
livelihoods and health and economic, physical, social, cultural and environmental assets of persons,
businesses, communities, and countries over the next 15 years.
Sendai Framework
