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• Disaster

  • A sudden, calamitous occurrence that causes great harm, injury, destruction, and devastation to life and property
  • a serious disruption of the functioning of a community
• TWO ELEMENTS ARE AFFECTED

  1. Life
  2. Property
• Major Damage

  • Broken windows
  • broken doors

  Major Damage

  • Torn rooftops
  • collapse walls

  Total Destruction

  • Completely destroyed houses and structures rendering them useless and inhabitable
  • can lead to death
• ADPC - Asian Disaster Preparedness Center
• FAO - Food and Agriculture Organization
• CLASSIFICATION OF DISASTER

  
  

  2 LARGE CATEGORIES

  1. Natural Disaster - a natural phenomena is caused by natural forces (Earthquake, typhoon, fires, extreme heat)
  2. Man-Made Disaster - disaster caused by human are those in which major direct causes are identifiable intentional or non intentional human actions
• CLASSIFICATION OF DISASTER

  3 SUBDIVIDE CATEGORIES

  1. Technologies/Industrial Disasters - unregulated industrialization and inadequate safety standards increase the risk of industrial disasters
  2. Terrorism/Violence - The threat of terrorism has also increased due to the spread of technologies
  3. Complex Humanitarian Emergencies - to describe the humanitarian emergency resulting from an international or civil war
• Risk

  • The combination of the probability of an event and its negative consequences (lack of capacity)
• Disaster risk

  • is the product of the possible damage caused by a hazard due to vulnerability within a community
• Ring of Fire

  • A path along the pacific ocean characterized by active volcanoes and frequent earthquakes
• Calamity

  • An Event causing great and often sudden damage or distress
• Earthquake

  • Shaking of the earth caused by waves moving on and below the earth's surface
• Volcanic Eruption

  • when lava and gas are discharged from a volcanic vent
• Pacific Ocean

  • The largest and deepest of Earth's oceanic divisions
• Typhoon

  • type of tropical cyclone or severe tropical storm
• Destruction

  • A sudden or great misfortune or failure
• Exposure - the “elements at risk from a natural or man-made hazard event
• Hazard-a potentially dangerous physical occurrence, phenomenon or human activity
• Vulnerability - the condition determined by physical, social, economic and environmental factors or processes, which increase the susceptibility of a community to the impact of hazard
• Severity of exposure - which measures those who experience disaster first-hand which has the highest risk of developing future mental problems
• Gender and Family - the female gender suffers more adverse effects. This worsens when children are present at home
• Age - adults in the age range of 40-60 are more stressed after disasters but in general, children exhibit more stress after disasters than adults do.
• Economic status of country - evidence indicates that severe mental problems resulting from disasters are more prevalent in developing countries like the Philippines.
• Factors which underlie disasters:

  1. Climate Change - can increase disaster risk in a variety of ways – by altering the frequency and intensity of hazards events, affecting vulnerability to hazards, and changing exposure patterns
• Factors which underlie disasters:

  2. Environmental Degradation - changes to the environment can influence the frequency and intensity of hazards, as well as our exposure and vulnerability to these hazards.
• Factors which underlie disasters:

  3. Globalized Economic Development - It results in an increased polarization between the rich and poor on a global scale.
• Factors which underlie disasters:

  4. Poverty and Inequality - Impoverished people are more likely to live in hazard-exposed areas and are less able to invest in risk-reducing measures.
• Factors which underlie disasters:

  5. Poorly planned and Managed Urban Development - A new wave of urbanization is unfolding in hazard-exposed countries and with it, new opportunities for resilient investment emerge.
• Factors which underlie disasters:

  6. Weak Governance - weak governance zones are investment environments in which public sector actors are unable or unwilling to assume their roles and responsibilities in protecting rights, providing basic services and public services.