Basic Concepts of Disaster and Disaster Risk

• The Philippines is an archipelago of 7,107 islands covering 300,000 square kilometers
• How many hectares of land does Philippines have?
• How many square kilometers of water does Philippines have?

  1,830 square kilometers
• What law provides a comprehensive, all-hazard, multi-sectoral, inter-agency, and community-based approach to disaster risk management through the formulation of the National Disaster Risk Management Framework?

  Philippine Disaster Reduction and Management Act (RA 10121)
• What is the general meaning of Disaster?

  a sudden, calamitous occurrence that causes great harm, injury, destruction, and devastation to life and property
• What type of property that has completely destroyed houses and structures?

  Total Property
• What type of property that has torn rooftops, collapsed walls?

  Major Property
• What type of property that has broken windows and doors?

  Minor Property
• What are the two elements of Disaster stresses?

  Life and Property
• What is the acronym for UNISDR?

  United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction
• What is the purpose of UNISDR?

  to promote a common understanding and usage of disaster risk reduction concepts and to assist the disaster risk reduction efforts
• What type of result of the combination of Disasters is, the conditions of vulnerability that are present?

  Exposure to a hazard
• What type of result of the combination of Disasters, is to reduce or cope with the potential negative consequences?

  Insufficient capacity or measures
• What are the two types of Disasters?

  Natural Disasters and Man Made
• What type of Disaster, is a natural phenomenon is caused by natural forces?

  Natural Disaster
• What type of Disaster, that is caused by man?

  Man-made
• Man-made Disaster are classified into three catergories, What are those?

  Technological/industrial disasters, Terrorism/Violence, Complex humanitarian emergenecies
• This category of Man-Made Disaster, are unregulated industrialization and inadequate safety hazards?

  Technological/industrial disasters
• This category of Man-Made Disaster, are caused by human activities which leads to develop weapons of mass destruction?

  Terrorism/Violence
• This category of Man-Made Disaster, are used to describe the humanitarian emergency resulting from an international or civil war?

  Complex humanitarian emergencies
• Understanding Mortality Patterns in Complex Humanitarian Emergencies has three categories. Name the three categories?

  Rural Famine or Refugee Paradigm, Ethnic Cleansing or Genocide, Short-Onset, Short Duration Natural Disaster
• The damage of the disaster cannot be measured?
• This refers to the combination of the probability of an event and its negative consequences?

  Risk
• This refers to potential disaster losses, in lives, health status, livelihoods, assets, and services. Also product of the possible damage caused by a hazard?

  Disaster Risk
• What is Disaster according to Food and Agriculture Organization?

  a serious disruption of the functioning of a community or a society
• This category of complex humanitarian emergencies, when Mortality is often due to communicable disease compounded by malnutrition?

  Rural Famine or Refugee Paradigm
• This category of complex humanitarian emergencies is characterized by armed forces, sometimes assisted by civilians, attacking large numbers of civilians in an effort to kill or displace them?

  Ethnic Cleansing or Genocide
• This category of complex humanitarian emergencies are consist of Hurricanes, tornadoes and earthquakes that can create high mortality rates at the beginning of crisis based on physical trauma leading to famine, long-term cure of diseases, and malnutrition?

  Short-Onset, Short Duration Natural Disaster