DRRRM

• Disaster


  A serious disruption of the functioning of a community or a society at any scale due to hazardous events interacting with conditions of exposure, vulnerability, and capacity, leading to one or more of the following: human, material, economic, and environmental losses and impacts.
• Disaster happens when a hazard impacts vulnerable populations
• Components of Disaster Risk

  • Hazard
  • Vulnerability
  • Exposure
• Hazard


  Potential occurrence of a natural or human-induced physical event that may cause adverse effects on a given area
• Exposure


  Inventory of elements in an area wherein hazards may occur, including people and economic activities that are exposed to hazard
• Vulnerability


  Susceptibility of exposed elements, dealing with sensitivity and lack of capacities and resilience of those exposed to cope with hazards and respond to potential disasters
• Risk


  Hazards x Exposure x Vulnerability
• There is no such thing as natural disasters
• Disasters aren't natural occurrences
• If an equally powerful typhoon struck two different regions, the outcomes would vary between them
• The location of a natural hazard determines whether or not it is a disaster
• Hazards are natural and unavoidable, but their impact on society is not
• Disasters are actually a result of the choices we make
• Factors that define whether a disaster occurs as a result of a natural hazard

  • Living conditions and poverty
  • Government capacity to prepare and respond
  • Process of rebuilding and how efficient that would be
• Disasters aren't natural and so is climate change
• Our changing climate is intensifying major weather events such as droughts, hurricanes, and wildfires
• These extreme events frequently occur in countries with high poverty levels
• While we assist vulnerable communities in recovering after disasters, the climate crisis exacerbates these already difficult situations
• The worldwide reliance on fossil fuels, insufficient international cooperation to support developing countries and their health systems, environmental degradation, unplanned urbanization, and rampant poverty are all contributing to the increasing frequency and intensity of disaster events
• Disaster Risk Reduction


  1. Risk assessment

  2. Application of disaster risk reduction policies and strategies to prevent new disaster risk

  3. Reduce existing disaster risk

  4. Manage residual risk

  5. Contributing to the strengthening of resilience and reduction of disaster losses
• Reduce Exposure


  Reducing vulnerable population and sectors to climate-related hazards
• Reduce Vulnerability


  Enhancing their adaptive capacity, preparedness measures, resilient livelihoods
• Adaptation


  Actions to reduce and curb greenhouse emissions and stabilizing the levels of heat-trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere
• Mitigation


  Actions to reduce vulnerability to climate change and adapting to life in a changing climate
• Activity


  Discuss with your group some creative but doable adaptation and mitigation measures that can address the impact of climate change