NSTP long test Flashcards
THREATS TO NATIONAL SECURITY
-MAN MADE THREATS
-NATURAL THREATS
MAN MADE THREATS
- Terrorism
- Explosion/Bomb Threats
- Campus Violence/Frat and Gang War
- Kidnapping/Hostage Taking
- Drug Addiction
- Armed Robbery/Hold Ups
- Snatching
- Sabotage
- Fire
- Technological Threats such as gambling through number games, internet hold ups and cybercrimes (computer hacking, computer pilferage, ATM steals and cyber prostitution)
NATURAL THREATS
1.Earthquakes
2.Typhoons
3.Floods
4.Volcanic Eruption
5.Tsunamis
-refers to a situation associated with catastrophic events in which a number of people are plagued by hardship and suffering due to problems such as food shortages, clothing, medical care and other basic necessities.
CALAMITY
progressive or sudden events resulting in natural or human-induced hazards causing loss and suffering resulting in extraordinary measures being taken by individuals and communities to cope with their impacts.
DISASTERS
Refers to the act of limiting the effect of a disaster by introducing measures intended to prepare the population before, during and after a disaster.
Disaster Control
Efficient and effective resource utilization and implementation of measures to mitigate the impact of unfortunate events and facilitate return to normalcy and redevelopment.
Disaster Management
State or condition of overflowing water from natural waterways caused by heavy rainfall resulting in accumulation of water in low lying areas.
Flood
These are natural or man-induced phenomena or activities which pose a threat to the lives, limbs, properties and socio-economic conditions of humans.
Hazards
The highest government body responsible for advising the country’s President on the status of a disaster preparedness program and national disaster relief and rehabilitation efforts.
National Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council
Refers to any discharge into land, soil, waters, atmosphere, air or space of liquid, solid or gas that creates or makes such environmental and atmospheric elements harmful or harmful to human beings, animals, plants and the environment and ecological equilibrium.
Pollution
Earth’s dust particles and debris, along with the radioactive materials that cling to them and are drawn into mushroom clouds resulting from the detonation of a nuclear weapon or device and that are carried by the wind. and sent back to Earth
Radioactive Fall-out
refers to anything that is done to alleviate the condition of those who are suffering from the effects of a calamity/disaster and who at that particular time are completely helpless.
Relief
refers to the degree or chance and frequency that such hazards will affect or impact people and communities.
Risks
these are the remains of artificial satellites and other components as well as their means of carriage aloft which fall back to earth.
Space Debris
