DRRR Hazard and Disaster

• The Philippines is located at the Pacific Ring of Fire, making it prone to earthquakes.
• Is a source of potential damage, harm or adverse health effects on something or someone.


  Hazard
• a serious disruption of functioning of a community or a society at any scale due to hazardous events that lead to human, environmental, economic and material losses.


  Disaster
• What are the 6 factors of Disaster?

  Climate change, Environmental degradation, Globalization, Poverty and Inequality, Weak Governance, and Poorly-planned and managed urban development
• Can increase disaster in variety of ways – by altering the frequency and intensity of hazards events, affecting vulnerability to hazards and changing exposure.

  Climate Change
• changes to the environment can influence the frequency and intensity of hazards, as well as our exposure and vulnerability to these hazards


  Environmental Degradation
• Resulted in increased polarization between the rich and poor on a global scale.


  Globalization
• Impoverished people are more likely to live in hazard-exposed areas and are less able to invest in risk-reducing measures

  POVERTY AND INEQUALITY
• A new wave of urbanization is unfolding in hazard-exposed countries.

  POORLY-PLANNED and MANAGED URBAN DEVELOPMENT
• Weak governance zones are environments in which sector are unable or unwilling to assume their roles and responsibilities in protecting and providing basic services and public services.


  WEAK GOVERNANCE
• are processes or conditions, often development-related, that influence the level of disaster risk by increasing levels of exposure and vulnerability or reducing capacity.

  Risk Factors
• The risk factors or the three important elements of disaster risk:

  1. Exposure
  2. Hazard
  3. Vulnerability
• – is the tendency of losing property, people, systems and other elements in the society due to their presence within the hazard zones.

  EXPOSURE
• a potentially dangerous physical occurrence, phenomenon or human activity that may result in loss of life or injury, property damage, social and economic disruption, or environmental degradation.

  HAZARD
• the condition determined by physical, social, economic and environmental factors or processes, which increase the susceptibility of a community to the impact of hazard (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United nation, FAO 2008)

  VULNERABILITY