DRRR WEEK 2

Vulnerability

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rite as many synonyms of vulnerability or ‘Kahinaan” on ¼ sheet of paper.

​Vulnerability

Vulnerability comes from the Latin word for "wound," vulnus.

​Vulnerability

​Vulnerability

According to Dictionary.com: It is the state of being open to injury.

• United Nations Development Program: The degree of loss to a given element at risk at a certain severity level

​Vulnerability

​Vulnerability

​diminished capacity of an individual or group to anticipate, cope with, resist and recover from the impact of a natural or man-made hazard.

​Vulnerability

​The degree of loss to each element should a hazard of a given severity occur.

• It is the condition of being susceptible (easily affected) to harm or danger.

• The characteristics and circumstances of a community, system or asset that

make it susceptible to the damaging effects of a hazard.

​Vulnerability

​Vulnerability is defined through three major factors • Exposure and physical susceptibility, • Social and economic fragilities, and. • Lack of resilience or ability to cope and recovering.

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What makes a person vulnerable?

• The Department of Health defines a vulnerable adult as a person aged 18

years or over who is or may be in need of community care services by reason

of mental or other disability, age or illness, and who is or may be unable to

take care of him or herself, or unable to protect him or herself against

significant harm or danger.

To determine people’s vulnerability, two questions need to be asked:

a. to what threat or hazard are they vulnerable?

b. what makes them vulnerable to that threat or hazard

QUESTION 1. What is vulnerability in terms of disaster?

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QUESTION 2. Is vulnerability good or bad?

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QUESTION 3.

Multiple Choice

1. Which among the following factors does determine people’s level of

vulnerability and the extent of their capacity to cope?

• PHYSICAL

• ECONOMIC

• ENVIRONMENTAL

• SOCIO-CULTURAL

Multiple Choice

___2. It is the susceptibility of individuals, communities, businesses, and

governments to absorb or cushion the effects of a hazard event

• PHYSICAL

• ECONOMIC

• ENVIRONMENTAL

• SOCIO-CULTURAL

Multiple Choice

___3. Which among the following refers to the inability of people, organizations and

societies to withstand adverse impacts to hazard due to characteristicsinherent in social interactions, institutions and systems of cultural values?

• PHYSICAL

• ECONOMIC

• ENVIRONMENTAL

• SOCIO-CULTURAL

Poll

___4. May be determined by aspects such as remoteness of a settlement, the site,

the design and materials used for critical infrastructure and for housing.

• PHYSICAL

• ECONOMIC

• ENVIRONMENTAL

• SOCIO-CULTURAL

Multiple Choice

___4. May be determined by aspects such as remoteness of a settlement, the site,

the design and materials used for critical infrastructure and for housing.

• PHYSICAL

• ECONOMIC

• ENVIRONMENTAL

• SOCIO-CULTURAL

Multiple Choice

___5. Which among the following refers to the deforestation of mountains due to illegal logging causing landslide and mudflows like what happened in Ormoc, Leyte 1994 and in Infanta, Quezon (2011)?

• PHYSICAL

• ECONOMIC

• ENVIRONMENTAL

• SOCIO-CULTURAL