VULNERABLE POPULATIONS

EFFECTS OF A DISASTER
1. Children
1. Disruption of transportation
2. Elderly
2. Damage to critical facilities
3. Physically challenged individuals
3. Medical effects
4. Pets and other animals
4. Economic impact
5. Individuals dependent on medical assistive
5. Global environmental change
devices or equipments
6. Social and political impacts
6. Prisoners
EXPOSURE
The degree to which the element at risk is DISASTER RISK (COMBINED OF):
likely to experience hazard events of different
magnitude.
VULNERABILITY HAZARD EXP OS URE Disaster
Readiness
The characteristics and circumstances of
a community, system or asset that make it
susceptible to the damaging effects of hazard.
This may varise from variuos social, physical, and Risk
environmental and economic factors. VUL NERA BIL ITY
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DISASTER
A disaster is a natural or man-made (or technological)
hazard resulting in an event of substantial extent
causing significant physical damage or destruction, loss
of life, or drastic change to the environment.
A disaster can be ostensively defined as any tragic event
stemming from events such as earthquakes, floods,
catastrophic accidents, fires, or explosions. It is a
phenomenon that can cause damage to life and property
and destroy the economic, social and cultural life of
people.
In contemporary academia, disasters are seen as the
consequence of inappropriately managed risk. These
risks are the product of a combination of both hazard/s
and vulnerability. Hazards that strike in areas with low
vulnerability will never become disasters, as is the case
in uninhabited regions.
HAZARD
It is a dangerous phenomenon, substance, human
activity or condition that may cause loss of life, injury or
other health impacts, property damage, loss of livelihood
& services, social & economic disruption or
environmental damage... • Could be a potentially
damaging phenomenon • It could be natural or human-
induced.
CLASSIFICATION
Natural Disaster
A consequence when a natural hazard affects humans
and/or the built environment. Human vulnerability,
and lack of appropriate emergency management,
leads to financial, environmental, or human impact.
The resulting loss depends on the capacity of the
population to support or resist the disaster: their
resilience. This understanding is concentrated in the
formulation: "disasters occur when hazards meet
vulnerability". A natural hazard will hence never result
in a natural disaster in areas without vulnerability.
Man-made or Human Induced Disaster
Disasters that are consequences of technological or
human hazards. Examples include stampedes, fires,
transport accidents, industrial accidents, oil spills and
nuclear explosions/radiation. War and deliberate
attacks may also be put in this category. As with
natural hazards, man-made hazards are events that
have not happened, for instance terrorism. Man-made
disasters are examples of specific cases where man-
made hazards have become reality in an event.
WHEN IS AN EVENT A DISASTER?
• At least 20% of the population are affected
& in need of emergency assistance or those
dwelling units have been destroyed.
• A great number or at least 40% of the means
of livelihood such as bancas, fishing boats,
vehicles and the like are destroyed.
Major roads and bridges are destroyed and
impassable for at least a week, thus disrupting the
flow of transport and commerce. Widespread
destruction of fishponds, crops, poultry and
livestock, and other agricultural products, and
epidemics.
DISASTER RISK
It is defined as “the potential loss of life, injury, or
destroyed or damaged assets which could occur to
a system, society or a community in a specific period
of time, determined probabilistically as a function
of hazard, exposure, and capacity. Disaster Risk is
expressed as a function of hazard, exposure, and
vulnerability. It seeks not only to express the chance
of the disaster happening but also to quantify the
impact.
The magnitude of the disaster depends on:
• Severity of the natural event
• quantity of exposure of the elements at risk
• Vulnerability level or quality of exposure