DRRISK080

• Disaster - is a serious disruption of the functioning of a community or society involving widespread human, material, economic, or environmental losses and impacts which exceed the ability of an affected community to cope using its own resources.
• Hazard - a dangerous phenomenon or human activity or condition that may cause loss of life, injury, or other health impacts, property damage, loss of livelihood, and changes
• Types of Hazards: Natural Hazard and Man-made Hazard

  Natural Hazard: Geological Hazard, Hydrometeorological Hazard, Biological Hazard

  Man-made Hazard: Planned Hazard (Terrorism)
• Geological Hazard - natural earth processes that include internal processes like tectonic origin and external processes like mass movement.
• Hydrometeorological Hazard - phenomena of atmosphere, hydrological, or oceanographic nature
• Biological Hazards - organic origin of those conveyed by biological vectors such as pathogens, toxins, and bioactive substance.
• Terrorism - Use of violent acts to frighten people in an area as a way of trying to achieve political goal
• Disaster Risk - probability of harmful consequences or expected losses caused by a disaster
• Disasters composed of exposure to hazards, conditions of vulnerability, and insufficient capacity to cope up with potential negative effects
• Disaster Risk Factors - variables that either aggravate or mitigate the effects of hazards, affecting the degree of disaster.
• Disaster Risk Factors:

  Physical

  Psychological

  Socio-cultural

  Economic

  Political

  Biological
• Disaster Risk Reduction/Management - an adapted proactive approach where risks are reduced and manage. The risk could be high, medium, or low, depending on physical, environmental, and socio-economic factors.
• DRRM - Disaster Risk Reduction Management

  1. Crisis management
  2. Contingency plan
  3. Risk management
• Vulnerability - process which increases susceptibility of community to impact of hazards. It's the extent of that is likely to be damaged by the impact of a certain hazard.
• Physical Vulnerability - Determined by population density levels, remoteness of a settlement, site, design, and materials used for critical infrastructure and housing (UNISDR)
• UNISDR - United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction
• Social Vulnerability - inability of people, organizations, and societies to withstand adverse impact of hazards due to characteristics inherent in social interactions, institutions, and systems of cultural values
• Economic Vulnerability - The poor are usually more vulnerable to disasters as they lack the resources to build sturdy structures and put other engineering measures in place to protect themselves from being negatively impacted by disaster
• Environmental Vulnerability - natural resource depletion and resource degradation are key aspects of environmental Vulnerability.
• NCR is the 7th most vulnerable in Southeast Asia and 1st in the Philippines in terms of vulnerability to multiple climate
• Capacity - those positive conditions/abilities which increase a community's ability to deal with hazards