Drrr

• Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) refers to the systematic approach taken to reduce disaster risks through sustained actions aimed at preventing casualties, reducing economic losses, protecting the environment, and improving people's livelihoods.
• VULNERABILITY


  Is the characteristics of a community as being susceptible or prone to hazard or disasters.
• CLASSIFICATION OF

  VULNERABILITIES

  Physical Vulnerability

  This classification of vulnerability pertains to the physical aspect of the community, the people, and the infrastructure.
• CLASSIFICATION OF VULNERABILITIES

  
  

  Social vulnerability is the incapability of the community to survive the hostile effects of threats of disasters.
• CLASSIFICATION OF VULNERABILITIES

  Economic Vulnerability

  This kind of vulnerability may be associated with the financial status of a person to stay in a safer place and build a safer home.
• CLASSIFICATION OF VULNERABILITIES

  Environmental Vulnerability

  Even our environment and natural resources are also vulnerable to disasters.
• VULNERABILITY IN

  DISASTER


  Level of vulnerability of an area or

  community can be assessed base on different factors.
• Factors affecting vulnerability of one’s community:

  1. Population density near a hazard event.


  Population density refers to the number of individuals living in an area in relation to the size of an area.
• Factors affecting vulnerability of one’s community:

  2. Capacity and efficiency to reduce Disaster Risk.

  Community that is less vulnerable has the capacity to reduce

  disaster risk
• DISASTER


  pertains to anything that disrupts the normal functioning of people, events, and circumstances.
• PREDICTED CALAMITIES

  like typhoon become disaster when its affect could no longer be controlled and disturbs people, damages properties, and unsettles
• UNPREDICTED CALAMITIES

  are more disastrous because people wouldn’t know when these calamities would strike a place, a person, or a thing. Ex,
• CAPACITY


  pertains to the capability of a person or group of persons to prepare, manage, and recover from the impact of a natural or man-made disaster.
• HAZARD


  ertains to any condition or circumstances that endangers a person, thing or situation.
• CAPACITY


  pertains to the ability of every individual or group or the community as a whole to mitigate the effects of hazards or causes of disaster.
• DISASTER RISK


  • Risk is caused by hazards.
• EXPOSURE


  This means that a person or property exposed to disaster likewise increases disaster risk.
• HAZARD EVENT


  Hazard event refers to the totality of circumstances that causes the harm to people, animals and property.
• HAZARD ASSESSMENT


  Hazard assessment is the process of identifying potential threat.
• HAZARD MAPPING


  Hazard mapping is the process of identifying localities which are in danger of natural disasters.
• NATURAL

  HAZARD

  those which are caused by forces in our environment that disrupts human activity or that may cause damage or injury to life and property.
• QUASI-NATURAL HAZARD


  are hazards which resulted from natural process and intervention of human activities. e.g. smog
• TECHNOLOGICAL HAZARD

  are those arising from industrial conditions like accidents and equipment malfunction which may cause loss of lives of people.
• A typology based on

  nd Burton (1971) in classifying hazards was enumerated by the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center
• ATMOSPHERIC


  SINGLE ELEMENTS and COMBINED ELEMENTS
• HYDROLOGIC


  Flood

  • Wave action
  • Drought
  • Rapid glacier advance
• GEOLOGIC


  this pertains to anything in connection with earth surface resembling to soil, lands, and minerals. Among natural hazards and possible
• BIOLOGIC


  this is also known as biohazards. It refers to any organic substance like bacteria, virus, birds and like which may cause potential threat or danger to other living organisms like human and animals.
• TECHNOLOGIC

  hese may refer to equipment malfunction in industrial that poses threat to lives and properties.