Disaster Vulnerability WK2

• Exposure refers to people, property, systems, and any other elements subjected to natural hazards, potentially leading to losses
• Capacity is the ability to resist the impact posed by hazards
• Susceptibility is the likelihood of people and the environment being damaged by natural hazards
• • Environmental: influenced by environmental degradation, loss of ecological resilience, and biodiversity loss, leading to limited community resources
• Elements affecting vulnerability:

  • Political: crucial for disaster risk reduction and adapting new approaches in disaster and risk management
  • Economic: people tend to live and work in hazard-exposed areas with limited resources and access to services during disasters
  • Social: linked to the social well-being of individuals, families, and communities
  • Physical: determined by factors like population density, remoteness of settlement, and building design
• Resilience is the ability of a system, community, or society exposed to hazards to resist, absorb, accommodate, and recover from their effects
• Coping Strategies are specific efforts and behaviors individuals or communities use to manage, adapt to, or tolerate stressful situations or adversities
• Capacity is an important element in vulnerability and risk, described as coping and adaptive

  • Coping Capacity: ability to respond and recover from stressful situations
  • Adaptive Capacity: ability to anticipate and transform structures to better survive hazards
• World Risk Index (WRI):

  • Philippines has the highest natural disaster risk in the world with a WRI of 46.86
  • Indonesia follows with a WRI of 43.5
  • WRI is a tool to assess and measure natural disaster risk globally
• Exposure may not necessarily determine the risks.