Concepts, Principles and Relevance of DRRR

What is Disaster Risk Reduction?

• It is a systematic approach to identifying, assessing and reducing the risks of disaster.

• Potential loss of life, injury, or destroyed or damaged assets in a community.

• A serious problem occurring over a short or long period of time that causes widespread human, material, economic or environmental loss.

It is one of the Concepts of Disaster Risk which causes a serious disruption of the functioning of a community.

• Capacity

• Hazard

• Risk

• Disaster

• Vulnerability

How do we minimize Disaster Risk?

• Reducing Hazard and Moving Vulnerability

• Reducing Vulnerability and Moving Hazard

• Reducing Vulnerability and Moving Exposure

• Reducing Exposure and Moving Hazard

It involves uncertainty about the effects/implications of an activity with respect to something that humans value.

• Hazard

• Risk

• Capacity

• Disaster

The quality or state of being exposed to the possibility of being attacked or harmed, either physically or emotionally.

• DRRR

• Risk

• Capacity

• Vulnerability

Pertain to tangible objects or infrastructure that can harm or help people avoid or lessen the effects of disasters.

• Political Factor

• Economic Factor

• Environmental Factor

• Physical Factor

Include the capacities/incapacities of communities in terms of income, economic class, etc.

• Economic Factor

• Environmental Factor

• Social Factor

• Political Factor

Factors affecting capacity includes:

•Political

•Economic

•Physical

•Social

•Environmental

• True

• False

DRR and Management Components are divided into 2. What are they?

• 1st Event and 2nd Event

• Pre-Event and Post-Event

• Event no. 1 and Event no. 2

• Component 1 and Component 2

Pre-Event has ___ Components.

• 2

• 3

• 4

• 5