BASIC CONCEPT

OF DISASTER AND
DISASTER RISK
DISASTER READINESS AND RISK REDUCTION
• MANILA, Philippines (UPDATED) - Executive Order 137 mandates the Philippines to
commemorate “National Disaster Consciousness Month” every July.
• The country is no stranger to natural disasters, as it is surrounded by bodies of water, and is
located along the Pacific Ocean’s “Ring of Fire.” From typhoons to tsunamis to volcanic
eruptions to earthquakes – name it, the Philippines has experienced it.
Gwen de la Cruz, Published 1:33 PM, August 01, 2014
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BASIC
DEFINITIONS
& TERMS
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.
• “A dangerous condition or event, that threat or have the potential
for causing injury to life or damage to property or the environment.”
• The word ‘hazard’ owes its origin to the word ‘hasard’ in old French
and ‘az-zahr’ in Arabic meaning ‘chance’ or ‘luck’.
• Hazards can be grouped into two broad categories namely natural
and manmade.
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• The term disaster owes its origin to the French word “Desastre” which is a
combination of two words ‘des’ meaning bad and ‘aster’ meaning star.
• Thus the term refers to ‘Bad or Evil star’.
• “A serious disruption in the functioning of the community or a society causing
wide spread material, economic, social or environmental losses which exceed
the ability of the affected society to cope using its own resources”.
• 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.
• An event, either man-made or natural, sudden or progressive, causing widespread
human, material or environmental losses
DISASTER
• A disaster is a result from the combination of hazard, vulnerability
and insufficient capacity or measures to reduce the potential
chances of risk.
• A disaster happens when a hazard impacts on the vulnerable
population and causes damage, casualties and disruption.
VULNERABILITY

• The extent to which a community, structure,

services or geographic area is likely to be
damaged or disrupted by the impact of
particular hazard, on account of their nature,
construction and proximity to hazardous
terrains or a disaster prone area.”
• Vulnerabilities can be categorized into:
Physical and
Socio-economic vulnerability.
VULNERABILITY
VULNERABILITY
VULNERABILITY
CAPACITY

• “Resources, means and

strengths which exist in
households and communities
and which enable them to
cope with, withstand, prepare
for, prevent, mitigate or
quickly recover from a
disaster”.
CAPACITY
RISK
FORMULA FOR DISASTER RISK
ELEMENTS AT RISK

- 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.
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MITIGATION VS. PREVENTION
MITIGATION VS. PREPAREDNESS
MITIGATING, PREVENTIVE AND
PREPARATORY ACTIVITIES
QUESTIONS???
SUM UP