Blessed Regina Protmann Catholic School Inc.

Disaster
Readiness and
Risk Reduction
MR. JEFFRY CORPIN, LPT
LESSON 2

Differentiating Risk
Factors
Underlying Disaster
 Learning Outcomes:
1. identify the risk factors underlying disasters.
2. describe each Risk factors underlying disasters.
3. utilize the gained knowledge in real life situations to avoid harm
and assure safety.
4. appreciate the importance of understanding the risk factors
underlying disasters to mitigate the effects of disaster and practice
mitigation measures as early as necessary.
 RISK FACTORS

01 02 03
Exposure Hazard Vulnerability
the condition determined by
A potentially dangerous physical, social, economic
the “elements at risk from a physical occurrence,
natural or man-made hazard and
phenomenon or environmental factors or
event human activity that may
(Quebral, 2016). processes, which increase
result in loss of life or injury, the susceptibility of a
property damage, social and community
economic disruption, or to the impact of hazard
environmental degradation. (Food and Agriculture
Organization of the United
nation, FAO
2008).
Reduction of the level of vulnerability and exposure
is possible by keeping people and property as
distant as possible from hazards. We can not avoid
natural events from occurring, but we can
concentrate on addressing the reduction of risk and
exposure by determining the factors causing
disasters.
 Risk Factors are processes or conditions,
often development-related, that influence
the level of disaster risk by increasing levels
of exposure and vulnerability or reducing
capacity.
The following are also taken into consideration when risk factors underlying
disaster are involved:

01 02
Severity of exposure Gender and Family
which measures those who experience the female gender suffers
disaster first-hand which has the highest more adverse effects. This
risk of developing future mental worsens when children are
problems, followed by those in contact present at home. Marital
with the victims such as rescue workers relationships are placed
and health care practitioners and the under strain.
lowest risk are those most distant like
those who have awareness of the
disaster only through news.
The following are also taken into consideration when risk factors underlying
disaster are involved:

03 04
Age Economic status of country
it has been observed that
adults in the age range of 40-60 are more
natural disasters tend to
stressed after disasters but
have more adverse effects
in general, children exhibit more stress
in developing countries than
after disasters than adults do.
do man-caused disasters in
developed countries.
 FACTORS WHICH UNDERLIE DISATERS
01 02 03
Environmental
Climate Change Globalized Economic
Degradation
Development
can increase disaster risk in a changes to the environment It results in an increased polarization
can influence the between the rich and poor on a
variety of ways – by altering the
frequency and intensity of frequency and intensity of global scale. Currently increasing the
hazards, as well as our exposure of assets in hazard prone
hazards events, affecting
exposure and vulnerability to areas, globalized economic
vulnerability to hazards, and
these development provides an
changing exposure patterns.
hazards. opportunity to build resilience if
effectively managed.
 FACTORS WHICH UNDERLIE DISATERS
04 05 06
Poverty and Poorly planned and Weak Governance
Inequality Managed Urban
Development
The lack of access to insurance
weak governance zones are
and social protection means that A new wave of urbanization
investment environments in
people in poverty are often is unfolding in hazard-
forced to use their already which public sector actors are unable
exposed countries and with
or unwilling to assume their roles
limited assets to buffer disaster it, new opportunities for
losses, which drives them into and responsibilities in protecting
resilient investment emerge.
rights, providing basic services and
further poverty.
public services.
“Always try to turn every disaster into an
oppurtunity.”

—Unknown
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