DRRR

Cards (64)

  • Disaster is a series of disruption of the functioning of the community or a society
  • Hazard is a dangerous phenomenon, human activity or condition that may cause loos of life, injury or other health impact, and property damage
    • Capacity is the capability of the people to reduce it's risk or mitigate it's devastating effects
  • Vulnerability is the weakened capability of a person or group of person to prepare, manage, and recover from the impact of the disaster
  • Disaster is the combination of Vulnerability and Hazard
  • Vulnerability+Hazard/ Capacity=Disaster
  • Predicted Calamities like typhoon become a disaster when it's effect could no longer be controlled and and disturbs everything
  • Unpredicted Calamities are more disastrous because people wouldn't know when these calamities would struck
  • Risk is caused by Hazards
  • Risk is the assessed damage to a person or property as a result of hazard
  • Risk that is caused by man-made or natural hazard is called Disaster risk
  • hazard+exposure+vulnerabulity = disaster risk
  • Disaster Risk has a direct relationship with hazards, exposure, and vulnerability, with all three combined
  • Declining ecosystems is environmental degradation due to exploitation of our natural resources like mountains and rivers
  • Social, social aspect of risk factors may pertain to apathy of the people towards disaster preparedness
  • Economic vulnerabilities is a lack of financial capability of your concerned authorities to fund disaster information drive or the cost effective thinking of builders makes them Susceptible to disasters
  • Climate change is known as the change in the pattern of weather or an extended. Examples are El Nin and La Nina
  • Migration is seen as one of the factors of unplanned urbanization from rural to urban may be due to natural disasters livelihood opportunities in the city
  • Natural disasters pertain to any act of nature which results to distressing effects to life and property it may also be a result of some human activities like illegal logging and mining
  • Man made Disaster or human cost disasters are stressful events cost directly in primarily by human action
  • Psychological Effects of disaster is when a person lives through a disaster physical mental and emotional health can be distributed by fear shock grief and irritability
  • Emotional effects of disaster are feeling of guilt feeling of dissatisfaction and feeling of bitterness
  • Physical effects of disaster are physical sickness change to appetite poor sleeping condition and Constipation
  • social effects of disaster are loss of interest in activity family may be rebuilt in circle friends will expand
  • economic effects of disaster are loss of job, Loss of business, forfeiture investments and decline of tourism
  • elements exposed to risk pertain to anything which are susceptible persons or properties to the danger brought by any disaster
  • Physical elements are the elements that comprise the aspects of geography location place and physical structures like infrastructures
  • Social elements consist of demography social groups and health and well-being
  • Demography pertains to the diversity of people in the community as to age gender health and others
  • Social groups exposed to hazards include tourist ethnic groups sports enthusiasts groups by reason of their profession and women and children who were not trained and equipped to fight and mitigate the fact of disasters
  • Health and well being is the aspect of accessible narrow ability that refers to body defenses in the physical capacity of the person to cope with the effect of disasters
  • Economic elements are those that belong to the public and private sectors whose businesses may be affected by disasters as they are also exposed to hazards
  • Environmental elements is the concept of disasters and hazards environmental elements pertain to the natural resources or the misuse of public lands and waterways
  • Physical Vulnerability pertains the physical aspect of the community the people and the infrastructures physical aspects of the community may pertain to location physical aspect of the people may pertain to demographic profile and the infrastructure may pertain to the type of houses
  • Social vulnerability Is the capability of the community to survive hostile effects of threats of disasters social vulnerability may be due to the principles and beliefs of the people in certain locality
  • Economic vulnerability is a kind vulnerability that may be associated with the financial status of a person to stay in a safer place and build a safer home
  • Environmental vulnerability Is our environment natural resources that are vulnerable to disasters
  • Hazard x vulnerability = Risk
  • Risk identification is there at home in the workplace or anywhere we go should be able to determine possible risk factors
  • Risk classifications means that all risk must be identified as minor or major risk