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Introduction To Disaster Concepts

This document defines key concepts related to disasters including hazard, disaster, risk, vulnerability, and disaster risk. It notes that disaster risk is a function of hazard exposure, vulnerability, and capacity. Disaster risk factors are then categorized as physical, psychological, socio-cultural, economic, political, or biological variables that can aggravate or mitigate the effects of hazards on a disaster.

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Introduction To Disaster Concepts

This document defines key concepts related to disasters including hazard, disaster, risk, vulnerability, and disaster risk. It notes that disaster risk is a function of hazard exposure, vulnerability, and capacity. Disaster risk factors are then categorized as physical, psychological, socio-cultural, economic, political, or biological variables that can aggravate or mitigate the effects of hazards on a disaster.

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Introduction to Disaster

Concepts
HAZARD
A dangerous phenomenon, substance, human
activity or condition that may cause loss of life,
injury or other health impacts, property damage,
loss of livelihoods and services, social and
economic disruption, or environmental damage.
DISASTER
• A serious disruption of the functioning of a
community or a society involving widespread
human, material, economic, or environmental
losses and impacts which exceeds the ability of
the affected community or society to cope using
its own resources.
RISK
• The possibility that something bad or unpleasant
(such as an injury or a loss) will happen.

VULNERABILITY
The 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.
DISASTER RISK
• The 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, exposure, vulnerability and capacity.
WORLD RISK REPORT
• Nature of Risk = Exposure (to hazard) x Vulnerability
Capacity to cope

• Disaster Risk = Exposure to natural or man-made hazards x


vulnerability
• “Disasters are often described as a result of the combination of:
I. The exposure to a hazard;
II. The conditions of vulnerability that are present, and;
III. Insufficient capacity or measures to reduce or cope with the
potential negative consequences.”
DISASTER RISK FACTORS

are variables that either aggravate or mitigate the


effects of hazards, affecting the degree or scope
of a disaster.
DISASTER RISK FACTORS

I. Physical,
II. Psychological
III. Socio-cultural
IV. Economic
V. Political
VI. Biological risk factors
DISASTER RISK FACTORS

1. Physical factors would pertain to tangible objects


or infrastructure, like the availability of fire exits, or
the sturdiness of the building, or the presence or
absence of objects that can harm you or help you.
DISASTER RISK FACTORS

2. Psychological factors include state of mental


capacity and health (e.g. are we dealing with babies?
Kids? Adults? People with special needs?), perception
of self (e.g. self-assessment of capability to respond to
disasters, fear).
DISASTER RISK FACTORS

3. Socio-cultural factors include religion, social


status, traditions, perception by society.

4. Economic factors include assets and


liabilities, income, economic class.
DISASTER RISK FACTORS

5. Political factors include government structure,


diplomatic issues.

6. Biological factors include flora and fauna in


environment, health, diseases.

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