DRRM PART 2

• This category of vulnerability explains that poor people who have few physical and material resources usually suffer more from disasters than rich people.


  Physical/Material Vulnerability
• Social/Organizational Vulnerability refers to people who have been marginalized in social, economic, political terms are vulnerable to suffering from disasters. Groups which are well-organized and have high commitment to their members, suffer less during disasters.
• Attitudinal/Motivational Vulnerability is a category of vulnerability that refers to people who have low confidence in their ability to affect change and feel defeated by events they cannot control.
• Effects of Disasters:

  1. Human/Biological
  2. Social Effects of Disasters
  3. Physical/Material
  4. Psychological
  5. Economic
  6. Environmental Degradation
  7. Political Impacts of Disasters
• Risk Factors

  • Severity of Exposure - experience disaster first-hand
  • Gender and Family - female gender and children suffers more adverse effects
  • Age - adults 40 to 60, and children
  • Economic Status of the Country
• Factors which Underlie Disasters

  1. Climate Change - exposure patterns
  2. Environmental Degradation - changes to the environment
  3. Globalized Economic Development - build resilience, participating in risk-sensitive development
  4. Poverty and Inequality - loss of livelihoods, displacements, poor health, and food insecurity
  5. Poorly Planned and Managed Urban Development - growing and rapid rate of urbanization with widespread poverty
  6. Weak Governance - specific arrangements that societies put in place to manage disaster risk
  7. Geographical Location - Manila Trench, Ring of Fire