VULNERABILITY IN

DISASTER
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 introduction
Vulnerability can determine the ability of a person or a group
to predict, cope with, resist and recover from the effects of a
natural or human-induced threat.
As vulnerability increases, it means that the population is at
greater risk of suffering from a severe natural danger.

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Vulnerability is not weakness; it's our
most accurate measure of courage.
- Brené Brown

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 ACTIVITY 1 : SPOT THE HAZARD

Can you spot all the Hazards in this image? There are 8
@anthondelfs Hazards which you need to find in this workplace image. Use the annotation when answering.
 WHAT IS VULNERABILITY?
+ is the characteristics and circumstances of a
community, system or asset that make it
susceptible to the damaging effects of a
hazard. (R.A. 10121: “Philippine Disaster Risk
Reduction and Management Act of 2010”)

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 WHAT IS VULNERABILITY?
+ Is a “set of prevailing or consequential
conditions, which affect the community’s ability
to prevent, mitigate, prepare for and respond
to hazardous events”. (Asian Disaster
Preparedness Center)

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 WHAT IS VULNERABILITY?
+ Vulnerability may arise from various physical, social,
economic, and environmental factors

Poor design and Inadequate Lack of public Limited official Disregard for wise
construction of protection of information and recognition of risks environmental
buildings assets awareness and preparedness management
measures

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 FACTORS AFFECTING VULNERABILITY
OF ONE’S COMMUNITY
Population density near a hazard event

Capacity and efficiency to reduce

Disaster Risk

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 FACTORS AFFECTING VULNERABILITY OF ONE’S COMMUNITY
1. Population density near a hazard event
+ Population refers to the number of individuals inhabiting
in a particular space at the same time. If people are well
distributed, there is lesser effect of disaster.
+ Population density refers to the number of individuals
living in an area in relation to the size of an area. If
population density is high, it means that the number of
individuals is high, but the space is very small.

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 FACTORS AFFECTING VULNERABILITY OF ONE’S COMMUNITY
2. Capacity and efficiency to reduce Disaster Risk
+ Community that is less vulnerable has the capacity to
reduce disaster risk because:
o It can provide accessibility and availability of services
and facilities during and after disaster.
o It has the ability to anticipate, adapt, and respond to
possible disaster.

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 • Is it appropriate to say that the
Philippines is less vulnerable to
typhoon?

Nowadays, our country has advanced

technology to predict super typhoon and several
municipalities already provided evacuation
centers to provide temporary housing for
victims when disaster occur.

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 Direction: Identify what factor affects the vulnerability
to disaster with the following situations given.

Population Density

Capacity and Efficiency

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 Population Density Capacity and Efficiency

Tondo community during the total

lockdown due to COVID-19 pandemic
wherein the families are forced to stay
inside their houses that are too small for the
number of family members.

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 Population Density Capacity and Efficiency

Use of drones to disinfect the community in

Pasig City to prevent the spread of the
COVID-19 virus.

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 Population Density Capacity and Efficiency

Insufficient number of rubber boats during

super typhoon Ulysses in Cagayan wherein
large number of residents were stranded on
the top of their roof.

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 Population Density Capacity and Efficiency

Too many casualties during super typhoon

Milenyo in Los Baños due to excessive
kaingin practices and illegal settlers in Mt.
Makiling.

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 Population Density Capacity and Efficiency

The Philippines and Japan are both prone to

earthquakes but the latter one is less
vulnerable.

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 Vulnerabilities of Different
Elements Exposed to Hazards
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This lesson will help you to realize that recognizing the
vulnerabilities of different elements exposed to hazard will
help the community design to formulate strategies on
prevention, mitigation, and immediate response and possible
rehabilitations after a major event such as natural disasters,
war and the other similar situations.

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 Vulnerabilities of Different Elements Exposed to Hazards

Physical vulnerability

Social vulnerability

Economic vulnerability

Environmental vulnerability

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 Physical vulnerability
+ includes population density levels, place of a
settlement, the site, design, and materials used
for infrastructure and housing. When hazardous
events occur, normally physical elements are
severely damaged.

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 Social vulnerability
+ refers to the inability of people, organization,
and societies to prevent severe effects from
hazards because of the expected behavior in
social interactions, institutions, and system of
cultural values.

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 Economic vulnerability
+ is based on the economic status of individuals,
communities, and nations.
+ The poorer the country, the more vulnerable to disasters
because they lack the funds or budgets to build sturdy
structures and put other engineering measures in place
which protect them from being affected by disasters.
+ Social and economic vulnerability can be combined also
known as “socioeconomic vulnerability”.

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 Environmental vulnerability
+ is caused by natural resources depletion and
destruction. Organisms like humans, animals, and plants
are all dependent on the environment for survival.
+ Human activities like deforestation, burning of fossil fuels,
and kaingin affect the natural abilities of the
environment to protect itself from any natural hazard
due to absence of trees which may cause landslide and
flashfloods.

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 The Philippines has high vulnerability due to the
following reasons:
+ It lies in the Pacific typhoon belt and we are visited by an
average of 20 typhoons every year.
+ Rugged nature of the landscape makes it vulnerable to
landslide, mudflows, and other disasters.
+ It is an archipelagic country with many small islands
where some areas are at below sea level.
+ It has the longest shoreline in the world at 32,400 km
making it vulnerable to storm surges.

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 The Philippines has high vulnerability due to the
following reasons:
+ It is still a primary agricultural and fishing economy.
+ With poor institutional and social capacity to manage,
respond, and recover from natural hazard events.
+ With high level of poverty
+ Aside from typhoon, it is also at risk to volcanic
eruptions, quakes, and floods.

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 Direction: Classify the following phrases and sentences whether it is
PHYSICAL, SOCIOECONOMICAL OR ENVIRONMENTAL VULNERABILITY.

PHYSICAL SOCIOECONOMICAL ENVIRONMENTAL

VULNERABILITY VULNERABILITY VULNERABILITY

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 “shutdown of telecommunication
tower”

PHYSICAL SOCIOECONOMICAL ENVIRONMENTAL

VULNERABILITY VULNERABILITY VULNERABILITY

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 “houses built near fault lines “

PHYSICAL SOCIOECONOMICAL ENVIRONMENTAL

VULNERABILITY VULNERABILITY VULNERABILITY

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 “denudation of forests”

PHYSICAL SOCIOECONOMICAL ENVIRONMENTAL

VULNERABILITY VULNERABILITY VULNERABILITY

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 “rest houses near Boracay
shoreline”

PHYSICAL SOCIOECONOMICAL ENVIRONMENTAL

VULNERABILITY VULNERABILITY VULNERABILITY

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 “twenty-story building constructed
on soil mainly made up of clay”

PHYSICAL SOCIOECONOMICAL ENVIRONMENTAL

VULNERABILITY VULNERABILITY VULNERABILITY

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 “bridges with cracks and crevices”

PHYSICAL SOCIOECONOMICAL ENVIRONMENTAL

VULNERABILITY VULNERABILITY VULNERABILITY

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 "overfertilization of agricultural soil”

PHYSICAL SOCIOECONOMICAL ENVIRONMENTAL

VULNERABILITY VULNERABILITY VULNERABILITY

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 “lost of job due to COVID-19
pandemic”

PHYSICAL SOCIOECONOMICAL ENVIRONMENTAL

VULNERABILITY VULNERABILITY VULNERABILITY

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 “retrenchment of ABS-CBN
employees due to its shutdown“

PHYSICAL SOCIOECONOMICAL ENVIRONMENTAL

VULNERABILITY VULNERABILITY VULNERABILITY

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 “destruction of coral reefs that
serves as barriers against storm
surge”

PHYSICAL SOCIOECONOMICAL ENVIRONMENTAL

VULNERABILITY VULNERABILITY VULNERABILITY

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