DRR 1.1

• The Philippines is prone to natural disasters due to its location along the Ring of Fire, a region in the Pacific Ocean known for volcanic eruptions and earthquakes
• According to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO, 2008), a disaster is "a serious disruption of the functioning of a community or a society involving widespread human, material, economic or environmental losses and impacts, which exceeds the ability of the affected community or society to cope using its own resources"
• Disasters are often a result of the combination of exposure to a hazard, conditions of vulnerability, and insufficient capacity or measures to reduce or cope with the potential negative consequences
• Impacts of disasters may include loss of life, injury, disease, damage to properties, destruction of assets, loss of services, social and economic disruptions, and environmental degradation
• Natural disasters are caused by natural forces like earthquakes, typhoons, volcanic eruptions, hurricanes, fires, tornados, and extreme temperatures, classified as rapid onset or progressive onset disasters
• Man-made disasters are caused by identifiable intentional or non-intentional human actions, including technological/industrial disasters and terrorism/violence
• Technological/industrial disasters are subdivided into three categories and examples include leaks of hazardous materials, accidental explosions, and power cuts
• Terrorism/violence disasters involve threats like bombs, release of chemical, biological, or radioactive agents, and multiple or massive shootings
• Complex humanitarian emergencies result from international or civil wars, leading to displacement of people and disruption of basic infrastructure
• Risk is defined as "the combination of the probability of an event and its negative consequences," while disaster risk refers to potential losses in lives, health, livelihoods, assets, and services over a specified future time period
• Disaster risk is the product of possible damage caused by a hazard due to vulnerability within a community, influenced by hazards, vulnerability, and coping capacity
• The Philippines is prone to natural disasters due to its location along the Ring of Fire, a region in the Pacific Ocean known for volcanic eruptions and earthquakes
• According to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO, 2008), a disaster is "a serious disruption of the functioning of a community or a society involving widespread human, material, economic or environmental losses and impacts, which exceeds the ability of the affected community or society to cope using its own resources"
• Disasters are often a result of the combination of exposure to a hazard, conditions of vulnerability, and insufficient capacity or measures to reduce or cope with the potential negative consequences
• Impacts of disasters may include loss of life, injury, disease, damage to properties, destruction of assets, loss of services, social and economic disruptions, and environmental degradation
• Natural disasters are caused by natural forces like earthquakes, typhoons, volcanic eruptions, hurricanes, fires, tornados, and extreme temperatures, and can be rapid onset or progressive onset events
• Man-made disasters are caused by identifiable intentional or non-intentional human actions, such as technological/industrial disasters and terrorism/violence
• Technological/industrial disasters are subdivided into three categories and examples include leaks of hazardous materials, accidental explosions, and power cuts
• Terrorism/Violence disasters involve threats like bombs, release of chemical, biological, or radioactive agents, and multiple or massive shootings
• Complex humanitarian emergencies result from international or civil wars, leading to displacement of people and disruption of basic infrastructure
• Risk is defined as "the combination of the probability of an event and its negative consequences," while disaster risk refers to potential disaster losses in lives, health, livelihoods, assets, and services over a specified future time period
• Disaster risk is the product of possible damage caused by a hazard due to vulnerability within a community, influenced by hazards, vulnerability to a hazard, and coping capacity linked to reduction, mitigation, and resilience to vulnerability
• Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) aims to reduce vulnerability, exposure, and hazard impacts through structural and non-structural measures.
• DRR operations aim to reduce disaster risk by avoiding the creation of new risk or aggravating existing disaster risk.
• Structural measures refer to physical structures such as buildings, roads, bridges, dams, etc., that can be built with specific designs to resist natural hazards.
• Non-structural measures focus on reducing risks without building new structures, including education, training, awareness raising, early warning systems, evacuation plans, insurance schemes, and emergency response planning.