Lesson 2 Flashcards
It is expressed as the likelihood of loss of life, injury or destruction and damage from a disaster in a given period of time.
Concept Disaster Risk
It is the result of the interaction between a hazard and the characteristics that make people and places vulnerable and exposed.
Disaster risk
are variables that either aggravate or mitigate the effects of hazards, affecting the degree or scope of a disaster.
Disaster risk factors
It is the probability that something wrong or unpleasant will happen.
Risk
Disaster risk is also defined through the combination of three terms:
- Hazard
- Exposure
- Vulnerability
is a dangerous phenomenon, substance, human activity or condition that may result to loss of life, injury or other health problems.
Hazard
the condition of being unprotected
Exposure
the ability of being easily hurt or injured.
Vulnerability
Disaster risk factors
- Hazard
- Exposure
- Vulnerability
What are the risk factors underlying disaster?
-Physical factors
-Psychological factors
-Socio-cultural factors
-Economic factors
-Political factors
-Biological or environmental factors
infrastructure, like the availability of fire exits, or the sturdiness of the building, or availability of objects that can harm you or help you. It also includes an area lies near the coastlines, fault lines, unstable hills etc
Physical factors
religion, social status, traditions, and perception of society.
Socio-cultural factors
state of mental capacity and health (e.g., people with special needs), perception of self (e.g., self-assessment of capability to respond to disasters,
Psychological factors
include assets and liabilities, income, and
economic class. It also includes the availability of natural resources in the area such as farmland, livestock, irrigation, capital, and adequacy of economic fall back mechanisms
Economic factors
government structure and diplomatic issues.
Political factors
include flora and fauna in the environment, health, and diseases.
- factors
is the basis of development failures, which means that it is a measure of sustainability of development.
Disaster
vulnerability and exposure are influenced by several risk drivers, including….
poverty and inequality.
Hazard
is defined as structural and non-structural measures undertaken to limit the adverse effect of natural hazards such as planting mangroves to lessen the negative effects of tidal surges or increasing the awareness of natural hazards through school based education program.
Disaster Mitigation
as the provision of timely information enabling people to take steps to reduce the impact of hazards. Early warning requires genuine ownership and participation by area in the community and other stakeholders,
Early Warning
as the measures that help ensure a timely and effective ‘first line’ of response supported by National volunteers, such as community action teams with the help of national and international society or response team.
Disaster Preparedness
is defined as decisions and actions taken after a disaster with a view to restoring or improving the pre-disaster living conditions of the affected community while taking an action necessary for adjustments to reduce disaster risk such as assessing levels of future risk when planning housing projects in the aftermath of a disaster.
Recovery
projects that strengthen livelihoods which enable individuals or households to create strategies to lessen risk like home gardening which can improve nutrition and increase reserves in the time of drought.
Support to livelihood
