Ritney Jean Agpalasin

Stem 11

Disaster Readiness and Risk Reduction Management

Module 2: Exposure and Vulnerability

Activity
Relationship of Hazards, Exposure and Vulnerabilities

Physical Elements
1. About how many people live in the community?

- Naujan is the first municipality in the province of Oriental Mindoro that has a population of
109,587 people,according to the last update in 2020.

2. What bodies of water or landforms can be found near the community?

- Several rivers and streams cut across the broad plain of Naujan.The longest in the Mag-asawang
Tubig River,which is about 95 kilometers and traverse from San Andres,flowing towards the cost
in the northeastern side into San Antonio and Bucayao River.Both Bucayao and Mag-asawang
Tubig are categorized as recreational and industrial.Naujan Lake are the largest bodies of water in
the community.Other rivers include Dulangan,Tibanglin,Bulwagan,Pinagsabangan,Matandang
Naujan,Caturian,Panggalaan,Macatoc(separating Naujan and Victoria) and Butas from which
Naujan Lake flows out.

3. Are there structures found in the community that may collapse or fall due to typhoon?

- Yes, there are structures found in the community that may collapse or fall due to a typhoon, and it
is where the floods and landslides often happen. Based on my research, back then, there was a
huge flash flood incident that happened in Oriental Mindoro and many people were affected by it,
including the people in Naujan. It took a very long time to recover those affected areas from the
past incident, and there is still a possibility that it might happen again.
 Socioeconomic Elements
1. Does the community interact with other communities?

- Yes, the community interacts with other communities to enhance and strengthen one another. The
interaction of the community with other communities binds them together for beneficial purposes.

2. How will this interaction be affected if a typhoon hits the community?

- Transportation and communication will be certain issues if a typhoon hits the said community.
Help from other communities cannot be provided immediately to address the needs of people in
the community who have been severely affected.

3. What product and services may be affected?

There are major services that may be affected during typhoon,it includes the following:

AGRICULTURE
 Agricultural Cropland; Rice,Avocado,Banana,Black Pepper,Camote,Cassava,Chico,Corn,Dragon
Fruit,Durian,Gabi,Ginger,Hot Pepper,Lanzones,Mango,Pandan,Papaya,Pineapple,Rambutan,
Salay,Ube,Forest Tree,Rubber Tree,Rattan Tree,Tambo Tree,Sitted Area,Pasture Area

 Crop Production; Calamansi,Banana,Coconut,Vegetable,Coffee,Cacao,Root Crops

 Livestock and Poultry Production:

Livestock Population Poultry Population

Carabao Native Chicken
Cattle Broiler
Swine Layer
Goat Duck

 Fisheries and Aquaculture

Agricultural Product
Cereal Product
Sugar and Syrups
Starchy Roots and Tubers
Vegetables
Fruits
Dried Beans,Nuts and Seeds
Milk Products
Eggs
Fish,Meat and Poultry
Miscellaneous
 4. What is the Livelihood of the community?

- The main sources of income for this community are agriculture and fishing. In addition, Naujan is
also known as the "Rice Granay" of Oriental Mindoro because most of the people living here are
rice farmers, and the agricultural land is mostly devoted to rice farming.

5. How will this be affected?

- Every time a typhoon comes, the Naujan lake and its tributaries ,as well as the Magasawang Tubig
River overflow, causing severe flooding, enough to completely affect their livelihoods.

Environmental Elements
1. Are the community members dependent solely on the natural resources they get from their
surroundings?

- Yes, the residents of this community rely completely on the natural resources provided by their
environment.

2. What would happen to plants and animals when a typhoon destroys their habitats?

- Typhoons are one of the most important natural disturbances that affect forest stand structures and
dynamics in various ways, such as by snapping branches, stripping leaves and fruits, uprooting
trunks and breaking stems. The wind, rain, and debris from storms injure and kill animals and cause
a lot of damage to their habitats, including destroying shelters and contaminating food and water
sources.Animals also lose their homes and parts of their habitats that they need to survive, but they
don’t have access to modern technology or disaster planning agencies. Plant life can easily be swept
away by floods and severe winds. Even trees cannot withstand the sheer force of a typhoon's
strength indefinitely.Whether or not they can cope with a natural disaster and its aftermath has a lot
to do with a combination of factors that are mostly beyond their control.

Given the coastal community’s high exposure to typhoons,assess its level of vulnerability.

1. Proximity to Disaster: The municipality of Naujan is one of the Munipalities in Oriental Mindoro
that has very high vulnerability to storm surge since it has eroded coastal areas in three barangays
due to absence of mangrove/beach forest.
2. Population density: The population density is computed at 218 inhabitants per square kilometer
or 564 inhabitants per square mile.

3. Capacity and effiency to minimize disaster risk:

- Continuously build the resiliency and adaptive capacity of Naujeno to reduce potential risks
and manage the impacts of hazards ensuring safety of people and communities who will be
assisted for rehabilitation and reconstruction back to normal lives.
 - A disaster-resilient, climate change adaptive and safe Naujeno with a strong spirit of
stakeholder commitment guided by effective local governance ensuring social protection,
economic security and socially-inclusive disaster management towards sustainable
development.

- Provide more information and dissemination campaigns as part of the preparedness program.
Through the following concrete ways of thinking and doing: Science-based and risk-informed
planning and investment, as well as community-focused efforts, are needed to build a healthy
and resilient society.

4. Building codes and disaster policies:

Building Codes

 The land or site upon which will be constructed any building or structure, or any ancillary or
auxiliary facility there to, shall be sanitary, hygienic or safe. In case of sites or buildings intended
for use as human habitation or abode, the same shall be at a safe distance, as determined by
competent authorities, from streams or bodies of water and sources of air considered to be
polluted.
 Disaster Policies

The department assigned to Disaster Risk Reduction Management operates on the idea that disaster
management efforts can be categorized as "SELF-HELP EFFORTS", "MUTUAL-HELP EFFORTS", or "PUBLIC-
HELP EFFORTS".

 Self-help efforts are efforts taught by the disaster office to each individual to reduce damage from
disasters, such as confirming evacuation routes, preparing emergency bags, and strengthening
houses against disasters.

 MUTUAL-HELP EFFORTS are the efforts and/or initiatives taken by community-based

organizations, such as preparing a risk map of the community for its new normal phase,
conducting evacuation drills in a community following the protocols given by higher levels in
preventing the spread of communicable diseases, and helping each other in every strategic
evacuation location.
  Public-help efforts are continuous efforts made by the department for risk reduction and
management, such as improvement of public infrastructure for mitigating risks, raising public
awareness, keeping emergency equipment, providing search and rescue operations, and managing
recovery even in times of pandemic. When all of these efforts are optimally executed with further
carefulness, a society of this new so-called normal becomes resilient against disaster.