Philippine Disaster Risk Profile Flashcards
Hazards Monitoring Agencies
Formulate and implement a concerted program of action of all law enforcement, intelligence and other government agencies for the prevention and control of transnational crime. Information exchange with government agencies, foreign countries, and international organizations.
PCTC- Philippine Center on Transnational Crime Interpol
____-level disaster risk profiles provide information on possible losses in future disasters; guide the placement of infrastructure to minimize new risk; inform urban planning and risk reduction measures; and guide disaster risk financing efforts.
National level
____ is expressed as the likelihood of loss of life, injury or destruction and damage from a disaster in a given period of time. (UNDRR Global Assessment Report, 2015)
Disaster risk
Hazards Monitoring Agencies
The National Meteorological and Hydrological Services (NMHS) agency of the Philippines mandated to provide protection against natural calamities and to insure the safety, well-being and economic security of all the people, and for the promotion of national progress by undertaking scientific and technological services in meteorology, hydrology, climatology, astronomy and other geophysical sciences
DOST-PAGASA
___ focuses on the tendency of populations to be vulnerable to damage from extreme natural events or the negative impacts of climate change
Vulnerability
What is the Philippine’s rank in World Risk Index 2022 (released September)? What are the other top countries?
- 1st Philippines
- 2nd India
- 3rd Indonesia
- 4th Colombia
- 5th Mexico
Deadliest typhoon with the most deaths
Yolanda
The Philippines officially the ____, is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia.
Republic of the Philippines (Filipino: Republika ng Pilipinas)
Hazards Monitoring Agencies
Provide stakeholders with surveillance and epidemiologic information to prevent and control outbreaks and to improve health policies, programs and systems. Develop competent health personnel to detect and respond to public health threats. Network public health laboratories in support of epidemiological and surveillance activities. Investigate disease outbreaks and other threats to public health.
EPIDEMIOLOGY BUREAU DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
___ is the abilities and measures of societies to counter adverse impacts of natural events or climate change through direct actions and available resources in the form of formally or informally organized activities and measures, as well as to reduce damage in the immediate aftermath of an event and initiate recovery.
Coping capacity
___ is the extent to which populations in hazard-prone areas are exposed to and burdened by the impacts of extreme natural events or the negative consequences of climate change
Exposure
Administrative Region
- 3 Geographical Areas: ____, ____, and ____
- ____ regions
- ____ provinces
- ____ cities
- ____ municipalities
- ____ barangays
- Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao
- 18 regions
- 81 provinces
- 145 cities
- 1,489 municipalities
- 2,029 barangays
Hazards Monitoring Agencies
Responsible for the conservation, management, development and use of the country’s mineral resources, including those in reservations and public lands.
Kawanihan ng pagmimina at agham panlupa
Most destructive earthquake in the Philippines
Casiguran
Historically, the total number of islands in the archipelago was ____. In 2016, the National Mapping and Resource Information Authority of the Philippines discovered more than 500 previously uncharted islands. In total the archipelago has around ____ islands — about 2,000 of which are inhabited.
7,107 (previously)
7,640 (recently)
