DRRR

• factors in the concept of vulnerability

  1. proximity to a hazard event

  2. population density near a hazard event

  3. capacity and efficiency to reduce risk

  4. Building codes and disaster policies
• Social/Organizational Vulnerability


  Refers to how visible the society is in its internal conflicts and how it manages them
• Areas of Vulnerability

  • Physical/material Vulnerability
  • Social/Organizational Vulnerability
  • Attitudinal/motivational Vulnerability
• Physical/material Vulnerability


  Refers to the vulnerability of materials during a disaster
• Less Vulnerable individuals acquire material resources, skills, trainings, and positions to respond to disasters
• Attitudinal/motivational Vulnerability


  Refers to how people view themselves in the society and their ability to affect them and their environment
• Vulnerability is a concept defined by IFRC and UN
• Most Vulnerable individuals are those with low capacity to resist the damaging effects of disasters
• Vulnerability


  Diminished capacity of an individual or group to anticipate, cope with, resist, and recover from the impact of natural or man-made hazards
• Population 


  Refers to the number of individuals living in a particular area at the same time
• Factors that contribute to vulnerability include proximity to an area frequented by a hazard and population density
• Physical Element


  Tangible elements exposed to hazard
• Socioeconomic Element


  Institutional and socioeconomic systems that dictate the kind of well-being and lifestyle of people exposed to hazard
• Risk classification is the process of classifying if the risk is major or minor
• Risk identification is the process of knowing what the probability of a hazard event is
• Exposure


  The elements that are at risk from a hazard event
• Environmental Element


  Natural elements exposed to hazard, including ecosystems and processes
• Risk classification is the process of knowing what to prioritize based on the classification of a risk
• Geoscience Australia defines exposure as the elements exposed to hazard
• Risk reduction is the process of lessening the impact
• Risk avoidance is the process of accepting the risk and finding ways to avoid the hazard
• Risk acceptance is the process of accepting the potential risk
• Elements exposed to hazard

  • Physical Element
  • Socioeconomic Element
  • Environmental Element
• Risk transfer is the process of transferring the burden or mitigating the impact of a hazard event
• Disaster Risk


  • refers to the expected value of death, injuries, and property losses that would be caused by the hazard
• Disaster


  • any event that causes widespread human, economic, community, and environmental losses or impacts that seriously disrupt the normal functioning
• Positive attributes

  • The belief in God
  • Be optimistic / positive
• a hazard becomes a disaster if there are casualties
• Perspectives on coping with the effects of disaster

  • Physical perspective
  • Psychological perspective
  • Socio-Cultural perspective
  • Economic perspective
  • Political Perspective
  • biological perspective
• Capacity


  • pertaining to the people's ability to reduce risk
• Ways of coping with the effects of disaster

  • take care of yourself
  • encourage open communication and support
  • be brave
  • be a good listener
  • Carry on with your routine
• Vulnerability


  • pertains to the weakened capability of a person or group of persons to prepare, manage, and recover from the impact of a natural or man-made disaster
• Natural disaster - phenomenon that happens naturally
• Affected Components

  • people
  • buildings and infrastructures
  • economy
  • environmental
• Primary effects


  • effects that occur immediately after the disaster
• TWO TYPES OF DISASTER

  • Natural disaster - phenomenon that happens naturally
  • man-made disaster - there is an intervention of man and technological known disaster
• French Word of Hazard

  • Hasard
• Hazard

  
  

  a threat or harm that has the potential to cause damage to a community
• Disaster any event that causes widespread human, economic, and environmental losses or impact that seriously disrupt the normal functioning of a community
• Tertiary effects


  • effects are not experienced as a disaster is taking place but can be felt sometime after the disaster have occurred