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Week 1.2Risk Factors Underlying Disaster

The document discusses the impact of disasters, particularly focusing on Typhoon Yolanda's effects on individuals like Gina, who lost family members and her home. It outlines various risk factors underlying disasters, including exposure, hazard, vulnerability, and socio-economic conditions, which contribute to the severity of their impact. Additionally, it emphasizes the importance of understanding these factors to mitigate risks and enhance community resilience.

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Week 1.2Risk Factors Underlying Disaster

The document discusses the impact of disasters, particularly focusing on Typhoon Yolanda's effects on individuals like Gina, who lost family members and her home. It outlines various risk factors underlying disasters, including exposure, hazard, vulnerability, and socio-economic conditions, which contribute to the severity of their impact. Additionally, it emphasizes the importance of understanding these factors to mitigate risks and enhance community resilience.

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Gina, an 18-year-old resident of

Tacloban City, just got laid off


from her job as a sales clerk in a
medium sized hardware store.
She and her siblings could barely
survive each day with their
limited resources. Then Typhoon
Yolanda struck, it killed her 2
younger sisters. Their home was
destroyed by the storm surge. In
her barangay alone, 2000
residents were killed, including
RISK FACTORS
UNDERLYING DISASTER
At the end of the lesson, you are expected
to:
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
1.Exposure - the
“elements at risk from
a natural or man-
made hazard event
(Quebral, 2016).
2.Hazard- a potentially
dangerous physical
occurrence, phenomenon or
human activity that may result
in loss of life or injury,
property damage, social and
economic disruption, or
3. Vulnerability - the condition
determined by physical, social,
economic and environmental
factors or processes, which
increase the susceptibility of a
community to the impact of
hazard (Food and Agriculture
Organization of the United nation,
RISK FACTORS
UNDERLYING
DISASTER
1. Severity of Exposure
- which measures those who experience
disaster first-hand which has the highest
risk of developing future mental
problems, followed by those in contact
with the victims such as rescue workers
and health care practitioners and the
lowest risk are those most distant like
those who have awareness of the
2. Gender and Family
- the female gender suffers
more adverse effects. This
worsens when children are
present at home. Marital
relationships are placed under
strain.
3. Age
- adults in the age range of
40-60 are more stressed after
disasters but in general,
children exhibit more stress
after disasters than adults do.
4. Economic status of
country
- evidence indicates that severe
mental problems resulting from
disasters are more prevalent in
developing countries like the
Philippines. Furthermore, it has been
observed that natural disasters tend
to have more adverse effects in
FACTORS WHICH
UNDERLIE
DISASTERS
1.Climate Change
- alteration of the world’s
climate that we humans are
causing such as burning of fossil
fuels, deforestation and other
practices that increase the carbon
footprint and concentration of
greenhouse gases in the
2. Environmental
Degradation
- changes to the environment
can influence the frequency
and intensity of hazards, as
well as our exposure and
3. Globalized Economic
Development
- It results in an increased
polarization between the rich
and poor on a global scale.
4. Poverty and Inequality
- Poverty is therefore a cause and consequence of
disaster risk (Wisner et al., 2004), particularly
extensive risk, with drought being the hazard most
closely associated with poverty (Shepard et al.,
2013).
- The impact of disasters on the poor can, in addition
to loss of life, injury and damage, cause a total loss
of livelihoods, displacement, poor health, food
insecurity, among other consequences. Vulnerability
is not simply about poverty, but extensive research
over the past 30 years has revealed that it is
generally the poor who tend to suffer worst from
5. Poorly planned and
Managed Urban
Development
- A new wave of urbanization is unfolding in
hazard-exposed countries and with it, new
opportunities for resilient investment emerge.
People, poverty, and disaster risk are
increasingly concentrated in cities. The growing
rate of urbanization and the increase in
population density (in cities) can lead to creation
6. Weak Governance
- weak governance zones are investment
environments in which public sector
actors are unable or unwilling to assume
their roles and responsibilities in
protecting rights, providing basic services
and public services. Disaster risk is
disproportionately concentrated in lower-
income countries with weak governance
(UNISDR, 2015a).
Disaster risk governance refers
to the specific arrangements that
societies put in place to manage
their disaster risk (UNISDR, 2011a;
UNDP, 2013a) within a broader
context of risk governance (Renn,
2008 in UNISDR, 2015a). This
reflects how risk is valued against a
backdrop of broader social and
Activity 1.4 Am I Ready?
Direction: Suppose you are invited by the SK
Chairman in your barangay as a resource
speaker to your fellow age group during an
Environmental Awareness Activity and you were
asked to give emphasis on the risk factors
underlying disasters so that young people will
be equipped with knowledge on how to mitigate
the effects of a disaster. Have a concept in
mind of how you are going to deliver the
information.

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