COMMUNITY-BASED DRRM APPROACH

WORKSHOP FOR BDRRMC MEMBERS

BASIC DRRM
CONCEPTS
There is nothing NATURAL
about disaster.
Disasters happen when a community is
not able to cope with
the damaging effects of a hazard due to
inability to do preventive, mitigating, preparedness,
and response actions.
 What we have are
NATURAL HAZARDS.

HYDRO-METEOROLOGICAL GEOLOGICAL
 Why does it matter?
If a hazard occurs in an area of no
exposure, then there is no risk.
WHAT DRIVES
EXPOSURE?
• People and economic
assets become
concentrated in areas
exposed to hazards
through processes such
as population growth,
migration, urbanization
and economic
development.
 It is the result of the range of economic, social,
cultural, institutional, political and psychological
factors that shape people’s lives and the environment
that they live in.
(Twigg, 2004)
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