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Community Disaster Risk Management

The document discusses key concepts related to understanding disaster and climate change including hazards, vulnerability, capacity, and disaster risk. It notes that hazards can be natural, human-made, or a combination. Vulnerability is influenced by factors like location, housing quality, and access to resources. Capacity refers to community strengths and resources. Disaster risk is a function of hazard, vulnerability, and capacity. The document also discusses how climate change can increase certain hazards like heat waves, heavy rainfall, and intense storms according to climate projections. Human activities that contribute to climate change include pollution, urbanization, and greenhouse gas emissions.

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Community Disaster Risk Management

The document discusses key concepts related to understanding disaster and climate change including hazards, vulnerability, capacity, and disaster risk. It notes that hazards can be natural, human-made, or a combination. Vulnerability is influenced by factors like location, housing quality, and access to resources. Capacity refers to community strengths and resources. Disaster risk is a function of hazard, vulnerability, and capacity. The document also discusses how climate change can increase certain hazards like heat waves, heavy rainfall, and intense storms according to climate projections. Human activities that contribute to climate change include pollution, urbanization, and greenhouse gas emissions.

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Understanding Disaster and

Climate Change
Community Based Disaster Risk Reduction and Management
HAZARD

A dangerous phenomenon,
substance, human activity
or condition that may
cause loss of life, injury or
other health impacts,
property damage, loss of [Link]
livelihoods and services,
social and economic
disruption, or
environmental damage.
(RA 10121)

[Link]
TYPES OF HAZARDS
Natural: typhoon, earthquake,
volcanic eruption, tsunami

Human-made: fire, pollution,


oil spill, industrial accidents
(such as leakage of toxic
waste) [Link]

Combination or socio-natural
hazards: flooding and drought
can fall under this category if it
is due to deforestation

[Link]
VULNERABILITY

The characteristics
and circumstances
of a community,
system or asset
that make it [Link]

susceptible to the
damaging effects of
a hazard.
(RA 10121)

[Link]
EXAMPLES OF VULNERABILITY

• Poor locations
• Houses made of light
materials
• Conflict in the community
• Lack of knowledge and skills
on disaster preparedness and
protective measures
• Attitude of helplessness and
dependence
[Link]
CAPACITY

The combination of
all the strengths,
attributes and
resources available
within a
community, society
or organization
that can be used to
achieve agreed
goals.
(RA 10121)
EXAMPLES OF CAPACITY

• Permanent housing
• Ownership of land
• Adequate food and income
sources
• Family and community
support in times of crises
• Local knowledge
• Responsive local
government
• Strong community
[Link]
organizations
E R
ST
I SA
D
A serious disruption of the
functioning of a
community or a society
[Link]
involving widespread
human, material, economic
or environmental
losses and impacts, which
exceeds the ability
of the affected community
or society to cope
using its own resources.
(RA 10121)
Disaster
LARO
TAYO!
DISASTER RISK

The potential disaster losses, in lives, health


status, livelihoods, assets and services, which
could occur to a particular community or a society
over some specified future time period.
DR = Hazard x (+) Exposure and Vulnerability
Capacity
Disaster Risk is a function of Hazard, Vulnerability,
Capacity
ELEMENTS AT RISK

Who and what can be damaged:

• People (their lives and health)


• Household and community structures (houses,
community centres, schools)
• Community facilities and services (access roads,
bridges, hospital, electricity, water supply, etc.)
• Livelihood and economic activities (jobs, crops,
livestock, equipment, etc.)
• Environment (natural resource base)
CLIMATE CHANGE

Refers to a change in
climate that can be
identified by changes in
the mean and/or
variability of its
properties and that
persists for an extended
period typically decades
or longer, whether due
to natural variability or
as a result of human
activity (RA 9729) Source: N. Sano, 2010
Source [Link]
climate/
What to expect in the 21st Century?
 Warmer and more frequent
hot days and nights, heat
waves over most land areas.
(extremely probable)

 More frequent rainfall events


over most areas resulting in
increased flood, landslide,
soil erosion, mudslide, etc.
(highly probable)

 Increase in tropical cyclone


wind and rainfall intensities in
some areas. (medium
confidence)
Source: L. V. Tibig: 2010
 More intense El Niño-related
droughts and floods in many
different regions (medium
confidence)

 Human-induced warming and


sea level rise would continue for
centuries (highly certain).

Source: L. V. Tibig: 2010


How do human activities contribute
to climate change?

~Human activities contribute to


climate change by causing changes
in Earth’s atmosphere in the
amounts of greenhouse gases,
aerosols and cloudiness.

Source: L. V. Tibig: 2010


POLLUTION
[Link]
industrial-noise-pollution
I N
G G
L O [Link]

G
URBANIZATION
[Link]
CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION

An adjustment in natural and human systems


in response to actual or expected climate
stimuli or their effects, which moderates
harm or exploits benefit opportunities
(RA 9729)
[Link]
CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION

Refers to human intervention to address


anthropogenic emissions by sources and
removals by sinks of GHGs, including
ozone-depleting substance and their
substitute (RA 9729)
THANK YOU!

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