LESSON 18 : CONCEPTS,PRINCIPLES AND RELEVANCE OF DRR
• Disaster risk reduction (DRR) is a term used for reducing and preventing disaster risks
through analysis and management of the causal factors of disasters. It is founded on the
principle that while hazards are inevitable, their adverse effects like lost lives and/or
destruction of property
•According to United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UN-ISDR),
DRR is about choices as it involves the concept and practice of reducing disaster risks
through systematic efforts to analyze and reduce the causal factors of disasters. UN-ISDR
also believes that DRR is everyone’s business as it involves every part of society, every part
of the government, and every part
• The Five (5) Key Concepts of Disaster Risk
•Disaster is 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.
They are often described as a result of the combination of several things the exposure to a
hazard; the conditions of vulnerability that are present, and insufficient capacity or
measures to reduce or cope with the potential negative consequences.
A.Natural Hazard
is a natural process or phenomenon that may cause loss of life injury or other health
impacts.
B.Man-Made Hazard
or Anthropogenic hazard caused by man,causis a natural process or phenomenon that
may cause loss of life injury or other health impacts.es are identifiable as intentional or non
intentional.
•Risk refers to the potential (not actual) disaster losses, in lives, health status, livelihoods,
assets and services, which could occur in a particular community or society over some
specified future time period
•Hazard is defined as 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".
•Philippines is prone to natural disasters because it’s located inside the typhoon belt and
Pacific ring of fire.
•Vulnerability is defined as the characteristics and circumstances of a community,
system or asset that make it susceptible to the damaging effects of a hazard.
•Capacity is defined as the combination of all the strengths, attributes and resources
available within a community, society or organization that can be used to achieve agreed
goals. Capacity may include infrastructure and physical means, institutions,
