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Unit 1
Disaster and Disaster Risk
Disaster Readiness and Risk Reduction
LEARNING TARGETS
At the end of this unit, the learners should be
able to do the following:
● Explain the meaning of disaster.
● Differentiate the risk factors underlying disasters.
● Describe the effects of disaster on one’s life.
● Explain how and when an event becomes a disaster.
● Identify areas or locations exposed to hazards that may lead to disaster.
● Analyze disaster from different perspectives (physical, psychological,
sociocultural, economic, political, and biological).
VALUES AND ATTITUDES
In this unit, the learners should be able to do the
following:
● Develop mindfulness of their and others' vulnerabilities and risk factors.
● Care for the environment.
● Improve their commitment to their community’s disaster capacity.
● Increase shared responsibility in their community’s disaster resilience.
Lesson 4
How and When an Event Becomes
a Disaster
Unit 1| Disaster and Disaster Risk
Disaster Readiness and Risk Reduction
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APPLICATION
Disasters and Hazards
Table 1. Sample table on hazard assessment
Areas
Name of Prevention or
Type of Hazard Exposed to
Disaster Mitigation
Hazards
PROJECT NOAH INTEGRATION
Know Your Hazards
Visit the NOAH website to check your area’s hazards. You may
also know the hazards in different locations within the country.
How and When an Event Becomes a Disaster?
A hazard can be considered a disaster when there are already
negative impacts on human life and their properties.
Proactive Approach
Proactive Approach to Emergency Preparedness
It refers to efforts that could avoid future disasters, reduce
current ones, and manage residual risks, improving resilience
and contributing to sustainable development (Gray et al.
2021).
Sample Case
the remains of a church in Clarin, Bohol after the 2013 Visayas earthquake
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PHOTO CREDIT
Slide 10: Remains of Clarin church post-2013 earthquake 02 by John Martin PERRY is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 via
Wikimedia Commons.
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