Disaster Risk Reduction Management Concepts

Module I

DISASTER RISK
REDUCTION AND
MANAGEMENT
Prepared by: Modified by:
Benjamin Pelayo Jr. Jude A. Legaspi
NSTP Facilitator NSTP Instructor
Katipunang Luntian Grupung Mapula
What is DISASTER?
• Disasters are emergencies that cannot be handled by those affected without outside
assistance.
• They may be caused by natural or man-made events wherein communities experience
severe danger and incur a loss of lives and properties causing disruption of their social
structure and all or some of the affected communities’ essential functions.
What is HAZARD?
• HAZARD is an event or occurrence that
has the potential to cause harm to life
and damage property and the
environment.
What is
VULNERABILITY?
• VULNERABILITY comprises
conditions determined by physical,
social, economic, and environmental
factors or processes, which increase the
susceptibility of a community, school, or
certain area in a locality to the impact of
hazards.
What is RISK?
• RISK is the probability of harmful consequences or expected
loss of lives, people injured, livelihoods, disruption of
economic activities, and damages to the environment as a
result of interactions between natural or human-induced
hazards and vulnerable/capable conditions.
What are CAPACITIES?
• RISK is the probability of harmful consequences or expected
loss of lives, people injured, livelihoods, disruption of
economic activities, and damages to the environment as a
result of interactions between natural or human-induced
hazards and vulnerable/capable conditions.
What can we do with the possible
RISK?
• There is a need to understand and put into life the concepts,
principles, and practical application of disaster risk reduction
and management.
CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK
OF DRRM
• The Conceptual Framework of elements of Disaster Risk
Reduction and Management (DRRM) considered the
possibilities to minimize vulnerabilities and disaster risks
throughout a society, to avoid through PREVENTION or to
limit through MITIGATION and PREPAREDNESS the
adverse impacts of hazards, within the broader context of
sustainable development.
What is PREVENTION?
• These are activities to provide outright
avoidance of the adverse impact of
hazards and means to minimize related
environmental, technological and
biological disasters.
What is MITIGATION?

• These are both Structural and non-

structural measures undertaken to limit
the adverse impact of natural hazards,
environmental degradation, and
technological hazards.
What is PREPAREDNESS?
• These are activities and measures taken
in advance to ensure an effective
response to the impact of hazards,
including the issuance of timely and
effective early warnings and the
temporary evacuation of people and
property from threatened locations.
What is R.A. 10121?
• R.A. 10121 is an act strengthening the Philippine
Disaster Risk Reduction and Management system,
providing for the national disaster risk reduction risk and
reduction framework and institutionalizing the national
disaster risk reduction and management plan,
appropriating funds therefore and for other purposes.
• This act shall be known as the “Philippine Disaster Risk
Reduction and Management Act of 2010
NATURAL HAZARDS
Hydro-Meteorological Phenomena Geological Phenomena and Hazards
and Hazards • Earthquakes
• Cyclone/Typhoon/Tornado • Tsunami
• Thunderstorm • Volcanic Eruption
• Flood • Astronomical Hazards
• Storm Surge
• Landslide
• Global warming
• Extreme Climatic Vulnerabilities
• Heat Waves
HUMAN-INDUCED HAZARDS
Technological Hazards Socio-Economic, political, Security
• Structure collapse Hazards
• Fire • Bomb threats
• Vehicular related accident • Kidnapping threats
• Chemical spill • Hostage taking
• Electrical blackout • Civil disorder
• Food poisoning
Environmental Hazards
• Red tide
• Water pollution
Why there is a need for DISASTER RISK
REDUCTION AND MANAGEMENT?
• The Systematic Process of using administrative decisions,
organizations, operational skills, and capacities to
implement policies, strategies, and coping capacities of the
society and communities to lessen the impacts of natural
hazards and related environmental and technological
disasters; includes structural and non-structural measures is
the primary reason why there is a need for disaster risk
reduction and management system.
ELEMENTS OF DISASTER RISK
MANAGEMENT
Risk Reduction
⚬ Risk can be reduced, and measures can be employed to
ensure that hazards will not result in disasters if people
reduce the weaknesses and vulnerabilities to existing
hazards in the location.
ELEMENTS OF DISASTER RISK
MANAGEMENT
Risk Management
⚬ It is needed for disaster prevention to ensure
sustainable development so that people can lead a
good, healthy, and happy life without creating damage
to the environment.
 DISASTER RISK REDUCTION AND
MANAGEMENT
Thank You
&
Keep Safe!
Prepared by: Modified by:
Benjamin Pelayo Jr. Jude A. Legaspi
NSTP Facilitator NSTP Instructor
Katipunang Luntian Grupung Mapula