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Understanding Disaster Concepts and Risks

The document outlines the basic concepts of disaster and disaster risk, defining disasters as sudden events causing significant damage and disruption to society. It categorizes disasters into natural and human-made types, discusses risk factors, and highlights the various effects of disasters on human life from multiple perspectives. Additionally, it emphasizes the importance of understanding hazards and vulnerabilities in assessing disaster risks.

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Understanding Disaster Concepts and Risks

The document outlines the basic concepts of disaster and disaster risk, defining disasters as sudden events causing significant damage and disruption to society. It categorizes disasters into natural and human-made types, discusses risk factors, and highlights the various effects of disasters on human life from multiple perspectives. Additionally, it emphasizes the importance of understanding hazards and vulnerabilities in assessing disaster risks.

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Basic Concept of

Disaster & Disaster


Risk
MOST ESSENTIAL LEARNING
COMPETENCIES

• Explain the meaning of disaster;


• Differentiate the risk factors underlying disasters;
• Describe the effects of disasters on one’s life;
• Explain how and when an event becomes a disaster;
• Identify areas/locations exposed to hazards that may lead
to disasters; and
• Analyze disaster from the different perspectives (physical,
psychological, socio-cultural, economic, political, and
biological).
WHAT IS
DISASTER?
• A sudden calamitous
event, bringing great
damage, loss, destruction
and devastation to life and
property (ADPC, 2012).
• A serious disruption of the
functioning of society ,
causing widespread human,
materials or environmental
losses, which exceed the
ability of the affected people
to cope, using their human
resources (Adelman, 2011).
WHAT IS DISASTER RISK?

• The probability that a community’s


structure or geographic area is to be
damaged or disrupted by the impact of a
particular hazard, on account of its
nature, construction and proximity to a
hazardous area (ADPC, 2012).
Nature of Disaster

[Link] Disaster – These originate from the


different forces of nature (geological,
meteorological, hydrometeorological and
biological).

2. Human-made Disaster – Occur due to


people’s actions against human, material and
environment. These include transport and
building collapses. Terrorism is also categorized
as human-made disaster.
Types of Disasters
Natural Types of Disasters Human-Made &
Technological Types of
Disasters
Tsunamis Cyber Attacks
La Nina Explosion
Emergency diseases Chemical Threat and
biological weapons
Earthquakes Nuclear power plant and
nuclear blast
El Nino Blackout
Extreme Heat Hazardous materials
Floods War
Hazard - Are those elements
of the physical environment,
harmful to man and caused
by forces extraneous to him
(Burton et al 1978).

Vulnerability- “the
characteristics and
circumstances of a
community, system or asset
that make it susceptible to
the damaging effects of a
RISK FACTORS UNDERLYING
DISASTERS
• Severity of Exposure
• Gender and Family
• Age
• Developing countries
• Low or negative social
support
EFFECTS OF NATURAL DISASTER
ON HUMAN LIFE

•Displaced Population
•Health Risks
•Food Scarcity
•Emotional Aftershocks
Disaster from different
perspectives
• Physical perspective
• Psychological perspective
- Emotional effects
- Cognitive effects
- Physical effects
- Interpersonal effects
• Socio-cultural perspective
Disaster from different
perspectives
• Economic perspective
• Political perspective
• Environmental perspective
PT1. Simulation Activity. Using a chart, show facts about the top 3 countries
with the highest risk to disasters. (Philippines, Indonesia, India)
THANK YOU!

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