Introduction to Disaster Risk Management

1. Session 1.b Introduction to Disaster Risk Management Training of Trainers Workshop on “ ICT for Disaster Risk Management” 22 to 26 February 2011 Incheon, Republic of Korea

5. Phenomenon or situation, which has the potential to cause disruption or damage to people, their property, their services and their environment Hazards are the result of an interaction between human activities and the natural and technological processes that can generate extreme events. There is a potential for occurrence of an event Hazard

6. Disaster Serious disruption of functioning of society, causing widespread human, material or environmental losses, which exceed the ability of the affected people to cope using their own resources. An event, either man-made or natural, sudden or progressive, causing widespread human, material or environmental losses

7. Vulnerability - Vulnerability a condition or sets of conditions that reduces people’s ability to prepare for, withstand or respond to a hazard

8. Risk Risk – A probability that a community’s structure or geographic area is to be damaged or disrupted by the impact of a particular hazard, on account of their nature, construction and proximity to a hazardous area.

9. Capacity Capacities are those positive condition or abilities which increase a community’s ability to deal with hazards.

10. Hazard Vulnerability x Disaster Risk Capacity =

11. Persons, buildings, crops or other such like societal components exposed to known hazard, which are likely to be adversely affected by the impact of the hazard. Elements at Risk

12. Response Measures that are required in search and rescue of survivors, as well to meet the basic needs for shelter, water, food and health care.

13. Relief Actions taken immediately following the impact of a disaster when exceptional measures are required to meet the basic needs of the survivors.

14. What is the difference between 1. Recovery 2. Rehabilitation 3. Reconstruction

15. Recovery The process undertaken by a disaster-affected community to fully restore itself to pre-disaster level of functioning.

17. Reconstruction Permanent measures to repair or replace damaged dwellings and infrastructure and to set the economy back on course.

18. Rehabilitation Reconstruction

19. Mitigation Mitigation - measures taken prior to the impact of a disaster to minimize its effects (sometimes referred to as structural and non-structural measures).

20. Structural Mitigation Land Use Management Mitigation

21. Preparedness Measures taken in anticipation of a disaster to ensure that appropriate and effective actions are taken in the aftermath.

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