CS 11: DISASTER READINESS
AND RISK REDUCTION
COURSE CODE 2ND SEM Ms. Mary Jessicca J. Echano
Examples:
Earthquakes, floods,
W1: LECTURE TITLE landslides, etc.
● MAN-MADE DISASTER- Harmful events
TOPIC OVERVIEW caused by human actions or negligence.
Examples: war,
A. MAIN TOPIC TITLE
bomb blast, chemical
a. Subtopic A1
leaks, etc.
b. Subtopic A2
A Basic Concept of Disaster and A3 RISK FACTORS UNDERLYING
Disaster Risk DISASTERS
● Severity of Exposure
● Gender and Family
● Age
A1 Basic Concept of ● Economic Status of the Country
Disaster and Disaster Risk
● Disaster- A crisis situation causing A3 Factors which underlie
widespread damage which far exceeds disasters
our ability to recover.
● Disaster Risk- The potential loss of life,
injury, or destroyed or damaged assets ● CLIMATE CHANGE- can increase disaster
which could occur to a system, society or risk in a variety of ways – by altering the
a community in a specific period of time. frequency and intensity of hazard events,
● HAZARD-A potential source of harm, or affecting vulnerability to hazards, and
something that could cause injury changing exposure patterns.
damage, or other adverse effects. ● ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION-
● VULNERABILITY- likelihood of a person, Changes to the environment can
community, or asset being affected by a influence the frequency and intensity of
hazard due to their hazards, as well as our exposure and
circumstances and characteristics. vulnerability to these hazards.
● EXPOSURE- Refers to people or ● GLOBALIZED ECONOMIC DEV-It results
properties which are directly affected by in an increased polarization between the
natural disasters. rich and poor on a global scale.
RISK = HAZARD X EXPOSURE X ● POVERTY AND INEQUALITY-
VULNERABILITY Impoverished people are more likely to
live in hazard-exposed areas and are less
able to invest in risk-reducing measures.
● POORLY PLANNED URBAN DEV-A new
A2 NATURE OF DISASTER wave of urbanization is unfolding in
hazard-exposed countries and with it,
● NATURAL DISASTER- Events caused by new opportunities for resilient
nature that can be destructive and have investment emerge.
a significant impact
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● WEAK GOVERNANCE-weak governance household articles
zones are nvestment environments in • loss of crops
which public sector actors are unable or • loss of public infrastructure
unwilling to assume their roles and Political Perspective
responsibilities in protecting rights, Political Effects of a Disaster
providing basic services and public • People who have trust in political institution
service. will
assess the government’s risk assessments as
credible and accept their hazard policies
A1 EFFECTS OF DISASTERS (Johnson
1999)
• Low level of trust in public institutions
● Displaced Populations therefore
● Health Risk means that citizens may ignore the
● Food Scarcity recommendations and disregard the
information
● Emotional Aftershocks
provided by these institutions (McCaffey
2004).
A2 DISASTER FROM DIFFERENTS • If individuals are confident that they will
PERSPECTIVE receive
sufficient aid from the government when a
disaster
Physical Perspective occurs, they might not be motivated to take
Effects of Physical Disasters measures on their own (King and Kang 2000).
• Injuries Biological Perspective
• Physical disabilities or illness Effects of Biological Disasters
• Sanitation • loss of lives
• Damage in infrastructure • public demobilization
Psychological Perspective • negative economic effect
Psychological effects of a • unemployment
Disaster • hunger
• distress
• hopelessness
• avoidance A EXPOSURE AND VULNERABILITY
• emotional effects
• hatred
• grief
Socio-cultural Perspective
Socio-Cultural Effect of
Disasters A3 EXPOSURE
• change in individual roles
• disruption of social ● DISASTER RISK- Combination of physical
relationships and personal hazards and the vulnerability of exposed
connections Elements. R = H X E X V
Economic Perspective The severity of the impacts of disaster
Economic Effects of Disasters and other extreme weather and climate
• loss of life events depends
• unemployment strongly on the level of
• loss of property loss of vulnerability and exposure
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to these events.
A3 PHILIPPINES VULNERABILITIES
● EXPOSURE- Refers to “elements at risk”
TO NATURAL DISASTER
from a natural and man-made hazard.•
Elements exposed to hazard.
● VULNERABILITY- The characteristics and ● TYPHOON BELT
circumstances of a community, system or asset ● RUGGED LANDSCAPE
that make it susceptible to the damaging ● NATURE OF SOCIETY
effects of a hazard. ● UNDERSTANDING OF THE AREA
● BELOW SEA LEVEL
A3 DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS ● MANY SMALL ISLAND
● LONGEST COASTLINE
● AGRICULTURAL AND FISHING
● AGE OF POPULATION ● POOR INSTITUTIONAL AND SOCIETAL
● DISTRIBUTION OF POPULATION CAPACITY
● CORRUPTION
● VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS
A3 SOCIO-ECONOMIC FACTORS
A3 COMMUNITY PREPAREDNESS
● WEALTH
● EDUCATION
● NATURE OF SOCIETY ● BUILDING CODES
● UNDERSTANDING OF THE AREA ● SCIENTIFIC MONITORING AND EARLY
WARNING SYSTEM
● COMMUNICATION NETWORK
A3 COMMUNITY PREPAREDNESS
● EMERGENCY PLANNING
● BUILDING CODES
● SCIENTIFIC MONITORING AND EARLY
A BASIC CONCEPT OF HAZARD
WARNING SYSTEM
● COMMUNICATION NETWORK
● EMERGENCY PLANNING
A3 GENERAL CLASSIFICATIONS OF
A3 SOCIO-ECONOMIC FACTORS HAZARAD
● WEALTH ● NATURAL HAZARD- from earth
● EDUCATION GEOLOGICAL: earthquakes, volcanic
● NATURE OF SOCIETY eruptions, landslides
● UNDERSTANDING OF THE AREA HYDROLOGICAL: Tsunamis,floods
METEOROLOGICAL:hurricanes,
tornadoes,droughts,blizzards
A3 FOUR TYPES OF VULNERABILITY BIOLOGICAL: Epidemics
● QUASI-NATURAL HAZARD- between
● PHYSICAL VULNERABILITY natural and human activities
● SOCIAL VULNERABILITY ● TECNOLOGICAL/HUMAN-MADE
● ECONOMIC VULNERABILITY HAZARD-ALAM MO NA YAN
● ENIVIRONMENTAL VULNERABILITY
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A3 IMPACTS OF HAZARDS
● PHYSICAL IMPACT
● PSYCHOLOGICAL IMPACT
● SOCIO-CULTURAL IMPACT
● ECONOMIC IMPACT
● ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT
● BIOLOGICAL IMPACT
A3 IDENTIFICATION OF HAZARDS AND
RISK ASSESSMENT
● HAZARD IDENTIFICATION- Process of
determining
● RISK ASSESSMENT- A WAY TO
DETERMINE
A3 STEPS IN HAZARD IDENTIFICATIONS
AND RISK ASSESSMENTS
● IDENTIFY THE HAZARD
A. OBSERVATION
B. MATERIAL SAFETY DATA STEETS
MSDSs
C. HAZARAD AND RISK SURVEYS
D. DISCUSSION GROUP TO
IDENTIFY
E. SAFETY AUDITS
● ASSESS THE RISK
A. RISK ASSESSMENT SCORING
MATRIX
● MAKE CHANGES
● CHECKING THE CHANGES MADE
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