Week 5: Hydrometeorological Hazards and Risk Assessment

DRMAPS
REMOTE MODE: ASYNCHRONOUS

ACTIVITY GUIDE 5
Activity Guide 5 consists of two parts. In Part A, you will learn about the risks related to
hydrometeorological hazards specifically floods and tropical cyclones. Part B has an overview on
risk assessment and introduces subjective risk assessment that describes how disaster risks are
perceived by people in different ways, thereby affecting how as individuals they respond to
hazard warning systems.

Parts A and B combine activities intended to reinforce your awareness of hazard warning systems
related to hydrometeorological hazards, and your awareness that disasters and disaster risks are
the consequences of the interaction between the natural, social, and built environments.
Additionally, the activities provide opportunities for developing skills in assessing and quantifying
both objective and subjective risks related to flood hazard.

Learning Outcomes:
Upon completing this module, the student should be able to:
• Explain different levels in the PAGASA Storm and Flood warning system, and the
corresponding response to each level.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the dimensions of risk from a psycho-social perspective
that can be measured.
• Identify areas and situations exposed to hydro-meteorological hazards.
• Quantify the correlation between measured objective and perceived risk for flood hazard.

Activity 5A: Hydrometeorological Risk Factors and the

Psychosocial Perspective in Risk Assessments

Learning Activities:
1. Read the following lecture slides uploaded to the Need to Know folder:
a. Tropical Cyclones
b. Floods
c. Psychosocial Perspective on DRRM (with mp4 file for rotating woman)
Note: Copies of the reference cited in the slides can be found in the Nice to Know and
Nice to Watch folders for additional resources. For each lecture, there is a pdf file
containing the slides with notes, and a separate pdf file containing only the slides to see
the text and figures more closely.
2. Answer the summative quiz (multiple choice) in UVLE by 6pm, Friday March 11, 2022.
3. Answer the 3 short questions embedded in the Psychosocial Perspective lecture notes
resource. Submit your answers on board set-up in UVLE (Deadline: 6pm Friday March 11 2022).
4. Accomplish the exercise on Objective and Perceived Risk Assessment on Flood Hazard by
answering the UVLE questionnaire (Deadline: 6pm, Friday March 18 2022).

Optional Activity 5B: Risk assessment in the time of COVID 19

Part B is an optional activity that provides an opportunity for students to apply what they have
learned about risk assessment to the current corona virus pandemic using each person’s own
context:

The ECQ has been extended due to a significant surge in COVID 19 cases in the Bubble called
NCR + surrounding areas. If one were to look more closely at the information concerning these
cases, it is noteworthy that cases are no longer isolated individuals but tend to cluster, and that
the clustering is in the level of “household bubbles”.

It would therefore be useful to conduct a corona virus risk assessment for our own households
by answering the following questions:
1. How many members are there in your own household, where household refers to
those living in one house?

2. How many of the household members are vulnerable (e.g. young children – 12 yrs
and below; senior citizens – 60 yrs and above)?
Please provide a subjective assessment of your household bubble in relation to
vulnerability risk, using your understanding of perceived and acceptable risks.

3. How many of the household members (include househelp whether stay-in or stay-
out) go out of the house and go to “public places” such as groceries, work offices,
parlors, government agencies?
Please provide a subjective assessment of your household bubble in relation to
exposure risk, using your understanding of perceived and acceptable risks.
4. What are the health protocols that are currently in place in your household bubble?
Please provide a subjective assessment of your household bubble in relation to your
capabilities to deal with the corona virus risk.

5. Given your risk assessment, what would you suggest to improve your household
bubble protocols in order to better manage the corona virus risk for your household?

Submissions for this activity will be in short essay format and due 6pm Friday March 18, 2022 in
the submission board provided in UVLE.

The information for this activity will be kept private and only summary data may be considered
for discussion. Thank you very much for your participation.