Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Quiz

Disaster Risk Reduction and Management in the Philippines

• Landslide is a ground movement on a sloping terrain, and sinkholes are depressions or holes on the ground that resulted from the collapse of the surface layer of the soil.
• The DENR identifies areas with the highest vulnerability to rainfall-induced landslides through geohazard mapping and assessment programs.
• The Philippines is prone to both geological and hydrometeorological hazards, with typhoons being one of the most common.
• Thunderstorms, floods, flash floods, storm surges, tornadoes, El Nino, and La Nina are other natural hazards that affect the country.
• The fire triangle model shows the three essential components that, when present together, can start and sustain a fire: fuel, heat, and oxygen.
• Disaster risk reduction and management (DRRM) is a systematic approach to identifying, assessing, and implementing strategies to reduce disaster risk.
• Asia and the Pacific are identified as having the most number and highest frequency of disaster impact.
• The community is the front line of disaster risk management, and the primary objective of DRRM plans is to save lives and build a resilient community.
• DRRM policies, laws, and regulations will not save lives unless implemented in the communities.
• Community-based DRRM is essential to develop, implement, and maintain an effective early warning system in a hazard-prone community.
• The Hyogo Framework for Action is the 10-year plan to make the world safer from natural hazards.
• Disaster prevention and mitigation, disaster preparedness, disaster response, and rehabilitation and recovery are the four main components of DRRM, each with its own government agency responsible for its implementation.