DRRR

• Vulnerability is the quality or state of being exposed to the possibility of being attacked or harmed, either physically or emotionally.
• What are the 4 types or elements of vulnerability during a disaster?


  -Social

  -economic

  -physical

  -environmental.
• Physical Vulnerability

  1. Site Design
  2. Place of Settlement
  3. Population Density
• Formula of getting population density is number of population/Land Area per (km^2)
• Economic Vulnerability is degree to which people, property, resources, systems, and cultural, economic, environmental, and social activity are susceptible to harm, degradation, or destruction on being exposed to an economic or environmental hostile agent or factor.

  • Based in the economic status of individual, communities, and nations.
  • The poorer the country must capable in vulnerability
• Environmental Vulnerability caused by natural resources depletion and destruction that affects humans, plants, and animals.
• 8 reasons why Philippines are  prone to disasters:

  1. It lies pacific typhoon belt, we are visited by 20 typhoons every year.
  2. Rugged Nature - make it vulnerability to landslide and mudflows.
  3. We are an archipelagic country, where some island will sink.
  4. It has the longest shoreline measuring 32,400 km that’s why we are vulnerable that make us prone to stormsurges.
  5. It is still agricultural and fishing capacity.
  6. Poor institution /fishing economy
  7. High level of  poverty
  8. Aside from typhoons and we are risk to volcano, earthquake and flood.
• Social Vulnerability happens due to inability of people, organization, societies to prevent severe effects from hazards because of expected behavior in social interaction, institutions, and system of cultural values.