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Vulnerability in Disaster Risk Reduction

The document discusses factors that affect a community's vulnerability to disasters. It states that population density is a key factor, as dense populations have less space to evacuate from hazards quickly. It also discusses a community's capacity and efficiency in reducing disaster risk as another important factor, noting that communities with more accessibility to services and facilities during and after disasters are less vulnerable. While the Philippines has advanced technology for typhoon prediction and evacuation centers, it still has high overall vulnerability due to its location in the typhoon belt, rugged terrain, archipelagic geography, extensive coastline, agricultural economy, poverty, and exposure to multiple natural hazards.

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Vulnerability in Disaster Risk Reduction

The document discusses factors that affect a community's vulnerability to disasters. It states that population density is a key factor, as dense populations have less space to evacuate from hazards quickly. It also discusses a community's capacity and efficiency in reducing disaster risk as another important factor, noting that communities with more accessibility to services and facilities during and after disasters are less vulnerable. While the Philippines has advanced technology for typhoon prediction and evacuation centers, it still has high overall vulnerability due to its location in the typhoon belt, rugged terrain, archipelagic geography, extensive coastline, agricultural economy, poverty, and exposure to multiple natural hazards.

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Vulnerability and Sectors of Society’s

Vulnerability to Disaster
 
Module 3
PRETEST:
Direction: Spot the hazard. Write your answer on a separate sheet of paper
Vulnerability and Sectors of Society’s Vulnerability to Disa
• Vulnerability is a state of being at risk. According to
Republic Act 10121 also known as ‘Philippine Disaster
Risk Reduction and Management Act of 2010’,
vulnerability is defined as the characteristics and
circumstances of a community, system or resource that
make it susceptible to the damaging effects of a hazard.
With all the identified hazard at home, there is a
possibility that some family members might be
susceptible or prone to the accident due to the presence
of hazard.
Factors affecting vulnerability of one’s community:

• 1. Population density near a hazard event.


• • Population differs from population density.
• • Population refers to the number of individuals inhabiting in a particular
space at the same time. If people are well distributed, there is lesser effect
of disaster.
• • Population density refers to the number of individuals living in an area in
relation to the size of an area. If population density is high, it means that the
number of individuals is high but the space is very small. In that case, if fire
broke in that area, there is little space for the population to escape quickly
and easily. So, crowded communities have higher vulnerability to hazards.
• • The primary consideration is not the population size but the population
density.
• 2. Capacity and efficiency to reduce Disaster Risk.
• • Community that is less vulnerable has the capacity to
reduce disaster risk because;
– It can provide accessibility and availability of services
and facilities during and after disaster.
– It has the ability to anticipate, adapt, and respond to
possible disaster.
• • Is it appropriate to say that The Philippines is less
vulnerable to typhoon? Nowadays, our country has
advanced technology to predict super typhoon and several
municipalities already provided evacuation centers to
provide temporary housing for victims when disaster occur.
The Philippines has high vulnerability due to the following reasons:
-It lies in the Pacific typhoon belt and we are visited by an average of 20 typhoons
every year.
-Rugged nature of the landscape makes it vulnerable to landslide, mudflows, and
other disasters.
-It is an archipelagic country with many small islands where some areas are at
below sea level.
-It has the longest shoreline in the world at 32,400 km making it vulnerable to
storm surges.
-It is still a primary agricultural and fishing economy.
-With poor institutional and social capacity to manage, respond, and recover from
natural hazard events.
-With high level of poverty
-Aside from typhoon, it is also at risk to volcanic eruptions, quakes, and floods.

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