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W2 Exposure & Vulnerability

This activity sheet asks students to identify exposures and vulnerabilities that contribute to disaster risks in their community. It provides an example of an open dumpsite near informal settlements that houses 250,000 residents. Due to heavy rainfall, excess gas pressure and proximity to homes, this exposes residents to health risks and property damage. The activity requires students to list 5 exposures in their vicinity, the corresponding vulnerabilities, and potential effects. Examples given include a landslide-prone informal settlement with impoverished residents lacking infrastructure, a coastal city facing rising seas and storms with at-risk communities, and an earthquake-vulnerable densely populated urban area with substandard housing.

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W2 Exposure & Vulnerability

This activity sheet asks students to identify exposures and vulnerabilities that contribute to disaster risks in their community. It provides an example of an open dumpsite near informal settlements that houses 250,000 residents. Due to heavy rainfall, excess gas pressure and proximity to homes, this exposes residents to health risks and property damage. The activity requires students to list 5 exposures in their vicinity, the corresponding vulnerabilities, and potential effects. Examples given include a landslide-prone informal settlement with impoverished residents lacking infrastructure, a coastal city facing rising seas and storms with at-risk communities, and an earthquake-vulnerable densely populated urban area with substandard housing.

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Liceo de Cagayan University

RNP BLVD., Kauswagan Road, Cagayan de Oro City


Tel. No. (8822)722244 (08822) 8584093 to 95 local 216
SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL MAIN CAMPUS

Disaster Readiness & Risk Reduction


Activity Sheet no. 2: Exposure & Vulnerability

Name: Mehl Humphrey T. Daugdaug Date: February 29, 2024


Section: 11 – STEM 1 Name of the teacher: Ms. Naihma Mae E. Casicas
Score: /30

CHECK YOUR UNDERSTANDING:

This activity aims to allow the learners to identify and explain how hazard, exposure, and
vulnerability contribute to their selected topic’s disaster risks and effects.

List the exposure and its corresponding vulnerability and effect observed in your immediate
vicinity or community. List at least 5 of these.

Address: Cagayan de Oro City

Exposure Vulnerability Effect

Example:

open dumpsite with informal high level of poverty and loss of lives and properties and
settlements of 250,000 unemployment, low level health risks among residents
residents, heavy
of education, location of
rainfall, excess gas pressure
houses, and poor waste

management

1. An open dumpsite situated The location of houses in The consequences of these


amidst informal settlements close proximity to the conditions include the loss of
housing approximately dumpsite and inadequate lives and properties, as well as
250,000 residents, waste management heightened health risks among
compounded by heavy rainfall practices contribute residents, particularly in the
and excess gas pressure due to significantly to vicinity of Cagayan de Oro
waste decomposition. vulnerability. City.

2. A sprawling informal The residents of the With each occurrence of natural


settlement established on settlement experience hazards, there is a heightened
unstable hillsides in a region extreme poverty and lack risk of property damage, loss of
characterized by frequent access to basic livelihoods, and casualties
landslides and flash floods. infrastructure, such as among the population,
secure housing and clean particularly in the aftermath of
water sources. heavy rainfall of seismic events.

3. A coastal city facing rising The city’s population As sea levels continue to rise
sea levels and increased includes marginalized and extreme weather events
frequency of storm surges communities living in become more frequent, there
due to climate change, informal settlements along is a heightened risk of coastal
compounded by inadequate the coastline, lacking access inundation, property, damage,
coastal protection measures. to proper infrastructure and displacement, and loss of
resources for disaster lives among vulnerable
resilience. communities in the coastal
areas.
4. A densely populated urban The urban population In the event of a significant
area situated near a major includes marginalized groups earthquake, there is a high
fault line, prone to frequent living in substandard housing risk of widespread
earthquakes and aftershocks. with inadequate structural destruction, loss of life, and
resilience to seismic activity. disruption of essential
services, particularly in
vulnerable neighborhoods
with poor building standards
and limited access to
resources.
5. A riverine settlement The riverine population lacks During periods of heavy
situated along a major river access to secure housing and rainfall and riverine flooding,
prone to seasonal flooding, flood-resistant infrastructure, there is a heightened risk of
exacerbated by deforestation increasing susceptibility to inundation, property damage,
and land-use changes riverine floods and associated loss of agricultural land, and
upstream. risks. displacement of communities
living in flood-prone areas
along the riverbanks.

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