Disaster Management Concepts and Vulnerabilities

What is the term for a sudden event, such as an accident or natural catastrophe, that causes significant damage or loss of life?

• Capacity

• Disaster

• Disaster risk

• Vulnerability

How can the risk of disaster be effectively reduced?

• By decreasing all factors including capacity, hazard, exposure, and vulnerability

• By decreasing hazard, capacity, and vulnerability while increasing exposure

• By increasing capacity while decreasing hazard, exposure, and vulnerability

• By decreasing hazard, exposure, and vulnerability while also decreasing capacity

Which of the following is an example of a factor that increases a community's vulnerability to disasters?

• Strong infrastructure

• High level of awareness

• Poverty

• Effective emergency response

What is "capacity" in the context of disaster management?

• The resources available to individuals, households, and communities to cope with or resist the impact of a hazard.

• The physical and material resources owned by a community.

• The skills and attributes of individuals and organizations within a community.

• The ability of a community to recover quickly after a disaster.

What defines a "disaster"?

• Any event that causes human, material, economic, or environmental losses.

• A serious disruption of a community's functioning that exceeds its ability to cope using its own resources.

• A widespread human, material, economic, or environmental loss.

• An event that requires external assistance to manage its impacts.

What is the primary purpose of "disaster preparedness"?

• To develop plans and allocate resources for efficient and effective implementation.

• To save lives and prevent further damage to property in the event of a disaster.

• To establish procedures for rescue operations.

• To ensure individuals and groups in a community have developed plans.

Which of the following is an example of "vulnerability" in a community?

• A community with strong local knowledge of hazards.

• A community with permanent housing structures.

• A community with houses made of light materials.

• A community with robust food security.