DRR Quiz 1 Reviewer

Concept of Disaster & Disaster Risk
- UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
- Formerly UNISDR
- The United Nations Focal point for disaster risk reduction

- Oversees the implementation of the Sendai Framework for disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 supporting countries in its implementation, monitoring and sharing that works in reducing existing risk & preventing creation of new risk

Concept of Disaster & Disaster Risk
- Process, phenomenon, or human activity that may cause:
- Loss of life

- Injury or other health impacts

- Property damage

- Social and economic disruption or environmental degradation

• Hazard

• Vulnerability

• Exposure

• Disaster

Concept of Disaster & Disaster Risk
- Conditions determined by physical, social, economic, and environmental factors or processes which increase the susceptibility of an individual, a community, assets, or systems to the impacts of hazards

• Hazard

• Vulnerability

• Exposure

• Disaster

Concept of Disaster & Disaster Risk
Situation of:

- People

- Infrastructure

- Housing

- Production capacities and other tangible human assets Located in hazard-prone areas.

• Hazard

• Vulnerability

• Exposure

• Disaster

Concept of Disaster & Disaster Risk
- Opposite of vulnerability

- Positive conditions or abilities which increase community’s ability to deal with hazards.

- Combination of all strength and resources available within the community, society, or organization that can reduce the level of risk or effects of a disaster

• Hazard

• Capacity

• Exposure

• Disaster

Concept of Disaster & Disaster Risk
- A serious disruption of the functioning of a community or a society at any scale due to hazardous events interacting with conditions of exposure Why: hazardous events interacting with exposure, vulnerability, and capacity
- Losses & impacts on: humans, materials, economic or environmental

• Hazard

• Capacity

• Exposure

• Disaster

Concept of Disaster & Disaster Risk
- The probability that a community’s structure or geographic area is to be damaged or disrupted by the impact of a particular hazard, on account of their nature, construction, and proximity to a hazardous area

• Hazard

• Capacity

• Risk

• Disaster

Concept of Disaster & Disaster Risk
- Potential loss of life, injury, or destroyed or damaged assets which could occur to a system, society or a community in a specific period of time, determined probabilistically as a function of hazard

• Disaster risk

• Capacity

• Risk

• Disaster

Concept of Disaster & Disaster Risk
Hazard interacts with Vulnerability & Capacity

• Nature of Disaster

• Risk of Disaster

Concept of Disaster & Disaster Risk
Hazard x vulnerability x exposure/ Capacity

• Nature of Disaster

• Risk of Disaster