National Disaster Resilience Month Quiz

Questions and Answers

What is a disaster according to the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC)?

A sudden occurrence causing great harm, injury, and destruction to life and property (correct)

An event that only affects properties

A natural event with no human impact

An unexpected event causing minor damage

Define 'disaster risk' following the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction.

Disaster risk refers to the potential disaster losses in lives, health, assets, and services which could occur in a community over a specified future time period.

Disasters can be categorized into 2 main groups: Natural Disasters and __________.

Man-made (Human-induced)

Match the following risk factors with their corresponding categories:

Severity of exposure = Direct impact risk factor Climate Change = Environmental risk factor Economic status of country = Socio-economic risk factor Signup and view all the answers

What is the official definition of climate change according to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)?

The change that can be attributed directly or indirectly to human activity that alters the composition of the global atmosphere and which is in addition to natural climate variability observed over comparable time periods Signup and view all the answers

What is a driver and consequence of disasters, reducing the capacity of the environment to meet social and ecological needs?

Environmental degradation Signup and view all the answers

Poorly planned and managed urban development can lead to the creation of risk, especially in hazard-exposed areas.

True Signup and view all the answers

Weak governance zones are investment environments in which public sector actors are unable or unwilling to assume their roles and responsibilities in protecting rights, providing basic services, and public services. Disaster risk is disproportionately concentrated in lower-income countries with weak ____.

governance Signup and view all the answers

Study Notes

National Disaster Resilience Month

The Philippines is a country prone to natural disasters due to its location along the Ring of Fire.

Basic Concept of Disaster and Disaster Risk

A disaster is a sudden, calamitous occurrence that causes great harm, injury, destruction, and devastation to life and property.
Disasters disrupt the usual course of life, causing both physical and emotional distress.
Two essential elements of disaster are:
Life (human or animal)
Property
The effects of disasters vary from minor damage to total destruction and can even lead to death.
Disasters are often a result of the combination of:
Exposure to a hazard
Conditions of vulnerability
Insufficient capacity or measures to reduce or cope with the potential negative consequences.

Classification of Disasters

Disasters can be divided into two large categories:
Natural Disasters (e.g., earthquakes, typhoons, volcanic eruptions, hurricanes, fires, tornadoes, extreme temperatures)
Man-made (Human-induced) Disasters (e.g., technological/industrial, terrorism/violence, complex humanitarian emergencies)

Risk and Disaster Risk

Risk is defined as the combination of the probability of an event and its negative consequences.
Disaster risk refers to the potential losses in lives, health, livelihoods, assets, and services that could occur in a community or society over a specified time period.
Disaster risk is determined by the presence of three variables:
Hazards (natural or anthropogenic)
Vulnerability to a hazard
Coping capacity linked to the reduction, mitigation, and resilience to the vulnerability of a community