Basic Concept of Disaster and Disaster Risk

What is a Disaster? DRRR Subject

1. Every year, millions of individuals, young and old, around the world are affected by either:

2. NATURAL DISASTERS HUMAN-CAUSED DISASTERS

3. Common end results: Loss of lives livelihood properties

4. DISASTERS

5. Activity 1: GUESS THE PHENOMENA!

6. Landslide

7. Volcanic eruption

8. Flood

9. Earthquake

10. Fire

11. What makes an event a disaster?

12. D isaster - a serious disruption of the functioning of a community or society due to hazardous events interacting with conditions of vulnerability and exposure, leading to widespread human, material, economic or environmental losses and impacts.

13. Disaster results from the combination of: the exposure to a hazard; the conditions of vulnerability that are present; and insufficient capacity or measures to reduce or cope with the potential negative consequences.

14. Consequences may include injuries, disease and other negative effects on human physical, mental and social well-being, together with damage to property, loss of services and environmental degradation.

15. event or phenomenon vulnerable condition or characteristic Local resources

16. Disaster affect communities in multiple ways. Their impact on the health care infrastructure is also multi-factorial. The disaster event can cause an unexpected number of deaths. In addition, the large numbers of wounded and sick often exceed the local community’s health care delivery capacity.

17. Definitions of a disaster “Disaster is a sudden calamitous event bringing great damage, loss, or destruction”. https://www.merriam webster.com/dictionary/disaster

18. “Disaster is a major hazard event that causes widespread disruption to a community or region that the affected community is unable to deal with adequately without outside help.” https://graphylaunchpad.weebly.com/definition-of-disaster.html

19. “ A disaster is a sudden, calamitous event that seriously disrupts the functioning of a community or society and causes human, material, and economic orenvironmental losses that exceed the community’s or society’s ability to cope using its own resources.” https://www.ifrc.org/en/whatwe- do/disaster-management/about-disasters/what-is- adisaster /#:~:text=A%20disaster%20is%20a%20sudden,disasters%20can%20have%20human%20origins.

20. “Disaster is an occurrence disrupting the normal conditions of existence and causing a level of suffering that exceeds the capacity of adjustment of the affected community.” https://apps.who.int/disasters/repo/7656.pdf

21. HOW AND WHEN AN EVENT BECOMES A DISASTER

22. An event, either human-made or natural, becomes a disaster when it is sudden or progressive, causing widespread human, material or environmental losses.

23. Our country, the Philippines, is frequently visited by typhoons on the average of 20 every year. Thus, we can consider typhoons as natural events. However, in 2009, Typhoon Ondoy turned into a disaster because the amount of precipitation brought by its torrential rains lasted for several days causing floods and flash floods in Metro Manila. Thousands of houses were submerged in flood water. Hundreds of shelters along river banks and steros were washed out. Power and water supplies were cut off for several weeks. Hundreds of lives perished.

24. Wow Wowie, hosted by Willie Revillame, a popular singer- commedian , became so popular. Thousands of fans flock to ULTRA (a huge event venue during that time) to watch the noon time variety show. However, that event turned out to a disastrous tragedy when there was a human-induced disturbance among the watching crowd that caused a stampede. Many spectators were hurt and some even died which led to the dissolution of the said TV program.

25. You are informed there has been a flood affecting one of the municipalities in the Province of La Union. According to the latest population census, around 10,000 people who are mostly poor live in this area. What are the characteristics that indicate that this event can be defined as disaster? Activity 2 : LET’S DO IT!

26. PERFORMANCE TASK: