Q1 W3

• Disaster from different Perspectives and its Effects

  • Physical
  • Psychological
  • Cognitive
  • Economic
  • Political
• Hazards of any type are many and varied. Some have short term effects that can be fixed with relative ease, while others last for several years. Disasters have three general types: primary, secondary and tertiary.
• Primary Effects


  Those effects that come directly from the incident or disaster itself, such as collapse of old building during earthquake, landslide or hurricane and water damage during a flood or strong typhoon
• Secondary Effects


  The results that come from primary effects. They will occur because a primary effect has caused them. Secondary effect includes power outages due to fallen trees or damaged buildings and fires from broken gas line.
• Tertiary Effects


  The long-term effects that are set off as a result of a primary event. These include things like loss of habitat, changes in the landscape and natural features caused by a flood, permanent changes in the position of river channel caused by flood, crop failure or reduction due to cooler temperatures or other interferences caused by a volcanic eruption like the recent Taal Volcano eruption that have displaced thousands of individuals residing along the community who were forced to evacuate for their own safety.
• Activity 1


  1. Determine whether the following effect of a disaster is a primary, secondary or tertiary effect

  2. Write Uno if it is a primary effect

  3. Dos if it is secondary effect

  4. Tres if it is tertiary effect
• When a disaster occurs, everyone regardless of race, gender and economic status will be in varying proportions and magnitude. Thus, it is imperative that a thorough understanding of what a disaster is, various point of views about disaster and its accompanying risk be provided in order to manage its potential impact and mitigate its effects.
• Physical Perspective


  Disaster is a phenomenon that can cause damage to physical elements such as buildings, infrastructures, including people and their properties, e.g. houses & environmental sources of living. Physical effects are the most visible and quantifiable effects of a disaster.
• Psychological Perspectives


  Disasters can cause serious mental health consequences for the victims, which can take the form of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and a variety of other disorder and symptoms which have been less investigated.
• Other psychological effects of a disaster

  • Emotional effects
  • Cognitive effects
  • Physical effects
  • Interpersonal effects
• Socio-cultural Perspective


  What the people living at risk know and do about natural hazards and disaster risks is mediated by a range of factors including social conditions and cultural settings in most places are also more or less exposed by information and ideas coming from the outside - the world outside their own cultural setting.
• Economic Perspective


  A natural disaster is a natural event that causes a perturbation to the functioning of the economic system, with significant negative assets, production factors, output, employment, and consumption.
• Political Perspective


  Natural disasters are commonly thought to be less politically contentious than armed conflicts. Yet, a closer look reveals that politics is deeply wedded to both the impact of a natural disaster and the subsequent delivery of humanitarian assistance.
• Activity 2


  Analyse the following pictures. Which of the following can be considered as physical, psychological, political, socio-cultural or economic perspective.
• Post Test


  Describe the effects of the typhoon in your community. What were the common primary, secondary and tertiary effects the disaster brought?
• Disasters have three general types: primary, secondary and tertiary.
• Disaster can also be identified into different perspectives: physical, psychological, socio-cultural, economic and political perspective.