Lesson 1 - Fundamental Concepts of Disaster and Disaster Risk

Question 1

A specific amount of losses sustained

Exceeded “normal” or “natural” situations

Answer 1

Disaster

Question 1

UNISDR - ?

Answer 1

United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction

Question 2

UNISDR’s Definition of Disaster

Answer 2

A serious disruption of the functioning of a community or a society involving widespread human, material, or environmental losses and impacts, which exceeds the ability of the affected community to cope using its own resources

Question 3

What are the three keypoints of UNISDR’s definition of disaster

Answer 3

• Serious Disruption
• Widespread losses and Impacts
• Ability to cope using one’s resources

Question 4

The UNISDR further defines disasters as a result of the combination of

Answer 4

a. The exposure to a hazard

b. The
conditions of vulnerability
that are present

c. Insufficient capacity or measures to reduce or cope with the potential negative consequences

Question 5

the potential disaster losses, in terms of lives, health status, livelihood, and/or assets and services, which could occur to a particular community or a society over some specified future time period

Answer 5

Disaster Risk

Question 6

What are the Disasters from Different Perspectives?

Answer 6

• Physical
• Environmental
• Psychological
• Socio-cultural
• Economical
• Political

Question 7

What are the two kinds of hazards?

Answer 7

• Natural Hazards
• Man-Made Hazards

Question 8

the phenomena that may cause severe death too, damages to property, environment and socioeconomic condition of communities

Answer 8

Natural Hazards

Question 9

Three types of Natural Hazards

Answer 9

• Biological Hazard
• Hydrological Hazard
• Hydrometeorological Hazard