Chapter 1 - Introduction to Disaster and

Disaster Risks

Panabo National High School Senior High School

New Site, Gredu, Panabo City

Disaster Readiness and

Risk Reduction (DRRR)

Basic
Definitions
& Terms
Learning
Objectives

At the end of this session, you

should be able to:

Define disaster, disaster

risk, elements at risk,
hazards, exposure,
sensitivity, adaptive
capacity, vulnerability,
and concepts of disaster
risk management.

Arzelo D. Rivas

Secondary Teacher II

Disaster Risk

DISASTER
The serious disruption of the functioning
of society, causing widespread human,
material or environmental losses, which
exceed the ability of the affected people to
cope using their own resources.

Disaster risk is the potential loss in

lives, health status, livelihoods,
and various assets.

An event, either man-made or natural,

sudden or progressive, causing widespread
human, material or environmental losses
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Disaster Risk
The probability that a
communitys
structure or
geographic area is to
be damaged or
disrupted by the
impact of a particular
hazard, on account of
their nature,
construction, and
proximity to a
hazardous area.
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Mechanism behind emergence

of natural disasters

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Elements at Risk

Vulnerability

Persons, buildings,
crops or other such like
societal components
exposed to known
hazard, which are likely
to be adversely
affected by the impact
of the hazard.

Is a condition
or sets of
conditions that
reduces
peoples ability
to prepare for,
withstand or
respond to a
hazard

Exposed Elements

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HAZARD
Phenomenon or situation, which has
the potential to cause disruption or
damage to people, their property, their
services and their environment

There is a
potential for
occurrence
of an event

Hazards

Biological Hazards

Natural hazards are phenomena that may

Hazards caused by

cause severe death toll, damages to

property, environment, and socioeconomic condition of communities.

Three different types of natural hazards

Biological Hazard
Geologic Hazard
Hydrometeorological Hazard
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exposure of living
organisms to toxic
substances and
microorganisms that
cause sickness, such
as epidemic diseases
caused by vial and
bacterial infection.

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Geologic Hazards

Hydrometeorological Hazard

Hazards that

involved phenomena
that are of
atmospheric,
hydrological, or
oceanographic in
nature.

Events that

originated in
solid ground
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Adaptive Capacity

Impacts of Disasters

Those positive
condition or
abilities which
increase a
communitys
ability to deal with
hazards.

Can be identified as direct, indirect, and intangible.

ASPECTS AFFECTED
Social
Economic
Environmental

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THE DISASTER MANAGEMENT CYCLE

Response

DISASTER
PREPAREDNESS

MITIGATION

PREVENTION

RESPONSE/RELIEF

REHABILITATION

RECONSTRUCTION
DEVELOPMENT

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Actions taken
immediately
following the impact
of a disaster when
exceptional
measures are
required to meet the
basic needs of the
survivors.
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Relief
Recovery

Measures that are

required in search and
rescue of survivors, as
well to meet the basic
needs for shelter,
water, food and health
care.

The process
undertaken by a
disaster affected
community to fully
restore itself to
pre-disaster level
of functioning.
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Rehabilitation

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Actions taken in the

aftermath of a
disaster to:
assist victims to
repair their
dwellings;
re-establish
essential services;
revive key economic
and social activities
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Development

Reconstruction
Permanent
measures to repair
or replace damaged
dwellings and
infrastructure and to
set the economy
back on course.

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Sustained
efforts intended
to improve or
maintain the
social and
economic
well-being of a
community
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Prevention

Mitigation

Measures taken to
avert a disaster
from occurring, if
possible (to
impede a hazard
so that it does not
have any harmful
effects).

Measures taken prior

to the impact of a
disaster to minimize
its effects
(sometimes referred
to as structural and
non-structural
measures).

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Mitigation
Preparedness

Measures taken
prior to the impact
of a disaster to
minimize its effects
(sometimes
referred to as
structural and nonstructural
measures).

Measures taken in
anticipation of a disaster
to ensure that
appropriate and effective
actions are taken in the
aftermath.

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Mitigation
Measures taken
prior to the impact
of a disaster to
minimize its effects
(sometimes
referred to as
structural and nonstructural
measures).

Prevention
Measures taken
to avert a disaster
from occurring, if
possible (to
impede a hazard
so that it does
not have any
harmful effects).
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Preparedness
Measures taken in
anticipation of a
disaster to ensure that
appropriate and
effective actions are
taken in the aftermath.

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