Theory and Practice of DRCM

 Evolving paradigms: from disaster management to disaster resilience

 Unpacking disaster risk: HEVC (Hazard, Exposure, Vulnerability, Capacity)
 What is a disaster?
o Both human-induced or caused by natural hazards
o “recipe for disaster”  HEVC
o A serious disruption of the functioning of a community or society at any scale due to
hazardous events interacting with conditions of exposure, vulnerability and capacity,
leading to one or more of the ff: human, material, economic, and environmental losses

Disaster Frameworks:

 IDNDR: International Decade for National Disaster Reduction (1989)

 Yokohama: managing known risks, preparedness and mitigation (1994)  we knew how to
anticipate these risks
 ISDR: International Strategy for Disaster reduction (1999)
 HFA: Hyogo Framework for Action, understanding risk, reducing risk (2005)
 SFDRR: Sendai Framework, intersection of disaster risk, climate change, SDGs (2015-2030)  we
have to address the unknown risks, can’t anticipate yet

 Vulnerability: conditions determined by different factors (social, economic, environmental,

processes)

o Susceptibility of the assets of interest to damage or impact to a hazard

 Exposure: situation of people

 Risk: two basic parts-the probability of something going wrong and the negative impacts if it
does
o Probability of sustaining damage or incurring a loss
o What is tolerable or acceptable to you?
 Disaster risk: probability of loss or damage to a system over a period of time (always a timeline,
risk is dynamic) as a function of HEVC; it’s always contextual
 Coping capacity: ability to absorb
 Adaptive capacity: ability to learn
 Transformative capacity: takes time

INSIGHT PAPER: IS DISASTER RESILIENCE JUST A BUZZWORD? INSIGHTS ON DISASTER RESILIENCE?