disaster readiness and risk reduction

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    • Disaster
      A sudden, calamitous event that seriously disrupts the functioning of a community or society and causes human, material, and economic or environmental losses that exceed the community's or society's ability to cope using its own resources
    • Two types of disaster
      • Natural disasters
      • Man-made disasters
    • Natural disasters
      • Tsunamis
      • Volcanic eruptions
      • Earthquakes
      • Typhoons
    • Hazard
      A dangerous phenomena, substance, human activity or condition that may cause loss of life, injury or other health impacts, property damage, loss of livelihoods and services, social and economic disruption, or environmental damage
    • Hazard
      A situation which poses a level of threat of life, health, property, or environment
    • Hazard
      Most hazards are dormant or potential, with only a theoretical risk of harm, however, once a hazard becomes 'active' it can create an emergency situation
    • Hazard
      Hazards can only be considered disasters once it affects humans. If a disaster happens in an unpopulated area, it is still a hazard.
    • Exposure
      The situation of people, infrastructure, housing, production capacities, and other tangible human assets located in hazard-prone areas
    • Vulnerability
      The diminished capacity of an individual or group to anticipate, cope with, resist, and recover from the impact of a natural or man-made hazard
    • Types of vulnerabilities
      • Physical
      • Social/Organizational
      • Motivational
      • Institutional
    • Susceptibility
      State or fact of being susceptible to being influenced or hurt by anything
    • Capacity
      Combination of all the strengths, attributes, and resources available to deal with a threat or withstand the effects of a hazard
    • Coping Capacity
      1. Ability to use resources and manage risk
      2. Ability of people, organizations, and systems using available skills and resources to manage adverse conditions, risk, or disasters
      3. Requires continuing awareness, resources, and good management, both in normal times and during disaster or adverse conditions
    • Capacity Assessment
      Process to identify gaps between strengths and goals
    • Capacity Development
      1. Process to empower people through education
      2. Process by which people, organizations and society systematically stimulate and develop their capacities over time to achieve social and economic goals
    • Risk
      Hazard + Exposure = Risk
    • Disaster readiness and risk reduction
      A concept that extends the term of capacity-building to encompass all aspects of creating and sustaining capacity growth over time
    • Disaster readiness and risk reduction
      1. Involves learning and various types of training
      2. Continuous efforts to develop institutions, political awareness, financial resources, technology systems and the wider enabling environment
    • SWOT analysis
      • Helpful to achieving the objective
      • Harmful to achieving the objective
    • Risk
      The possibility/probability of anything unpleasant happening<|>The uncertainty regarding activity's effect or implications on something that humans value (life and property)
    • Hazard
      Something that has the potential to harm you
    • Risk
      The likelihood of causing harm
    • Acceptable/Tolerable risk
      • The extent to which a disaster risk is deemed acceptable or tolerable depends on existing social, economic, political, cultural, technical, and environmental conditions
      • Tolerable risk is more hazardous than acceptable risk
    • ALARP
      As Low As Reasonably Practicable
    • SFAIRP
      So Far As Is Reasonably Practicable
    • ALARA
      As Low As Reasonably Achievable
    • Residual risk
      The disaster risk that remains even when effective disaster risk reduction measures are in place, and for which emergency response and recovery capacities must be maintained
    • Disaster risk
      The potential loss of life, injury, or destroyed or damaged assets which could occur to a system, society or a community in a specific period of time, determined probabilistically as fraction of hazard, exposure, vulnerability and capacity
    • Disaster
      • Serious disruption of the functioning of a community or a society involving widespread human, material, or environmental losses and impacts, which exceeds the ability of the affected community to cope using its own resources
    • Mechanism behind the emergence of natural disaster
      1. Hazard
      2. Vulnerability
      3. Exposure
      4. Coping capacity
      5. Adaptive capacity
    • Risk
      Proportional to Hazard x Vulnerability / Capacity
    • Hazard, disaster, exposure, and vulnerability applied to situations

      • Student B asking Student A for exam answers
      • Student B offering to treat Student A to lunch
      • Student A agreeing to the deal
      • Teacher using a drone to identify cheating students
      • Students being disciplined by the teacher
    • What makes Sir Marc vulnerable?
    • Two words that describe exposure
    • What is between hazard and people?
    • Ways to lower the hazard