about vulnerability

1. Vulnerability

2. Objectives:
• Define the meaning of
vulnerability
• Determine the types of
vulnerability and the conditions
or factors that make them prone
to hazard.

3. Risk = Hazard x Exposure x Vulnerability

4. Vulnerability
• State of being at risk.
• RA 10121 also known as the Philippine
Disaster Risk Reduction and
Management Act of 2010 define the
vulnerability as the characteristics and
circumstances of a community, system or
resource that make it susceptible to the
damaging effects of a hazard.
• Also a situation specific
• A hazard specific.

5. Vulnerability
• “Factors of the community that allow a
hazard to cause a disaster.”
- Department of Education (DepEd) Philippines
The vulnerability of an area increases
the chances of not being able to handle or
survive an emergency or disaster.

6. Vulnerability
Some of the questions that are usually
asked to people in order to know their
vulnerability are:
–To what threat or hazard are they
vulnerable?
–What makes them vulnerable to that
threat?

7. Word Association
WEAKNESS
FRAGILITY
DEFICIENCY
LACK OF
CAPACITY

8. Types of Vulnerability
• These types help determine the level
of preparedness in coping with
hazards.
1. Physical Vulnerability
2. Social Vulnerability
3. Economic Vulnerability
4. Environmental Vulnerability

9. Physical Vulnerability
–Characterized by the conditions which
are prone to hazards, physically
affecting humans and/or
infrastructures.
–Poor design and construction of
buildings, unregulated land use
planning, etc.
Types of Vulnerability: Physical

10. Examples:
Types of Vulnerability: Physical
Poor design and construction of buildings will lead to collapse
especially when an earthquake occur.
Wooden houses are prone to fires.
Houses near mountains can be destroyed by a landslide.
Houses near the sea can be wrecked by a tsunami.

11. Social Vulnerability
–Refers to the conditions which are prone
to hazards, affecting the welfare of
humans, communities, and society.
–Poverty and inequality, social exclusion
and discrimination by gender, social
status disability and age.
Types of Vulnerability: Social

12. Examples:
Types of Vulnerability: Social
Poverty makes people vulnerable to different hazards in the society.
It makes people unprepared due to lacking of resources.
The elderly, children and physically disabled people are
most vulnerable to hazards because of their inability to protect
themselves alone from hazards.
Gender biased between men and women. Women are more prone
to rape, abuse, and human trafficking compared to men.

13. Economic Vulnerability
–Refers to the conditions that are prone
to hazards, affecting the level of
economic status of humans,
communities, and society.
–The uninsured informal sector,
vulnerable rural livelihoods, dependence
on single industries.
Types of Vulnerability: Economic

14. Examples:
Types of Vulnerability: Economic
People living in squatter area are more vulnerable to flood, fires
and quarrels.
Poor sanitation may lead to sickness and contamination especially
to food and water.
Low budget for building sturdy infrastructures is prone to
destruction due to the earthquake.

15. Environmental Vulnerability
–Refers to the factors which are prone to
hazards that are affecting the quantity
of the natural resources.
–Poor environmental management,
overconsumption of natural resources,
climate change.
Types of Vulnerability:
Environmental

16. Examples:
Types of Vulnerability:
Environmental
Clean water is prone to pollutants that came from wastes carried
off to the bodies of water. This is due to poor waste management.
Forest trees are more vulnerable to depletion because of human
activities like illegal logging and deforestation.
Minerals are prone to extinction because of the mining activities
done on Earth. Mining also threatens the air to become polluted.

17. Vulnerability is not simply about poverty but
extensive research reveals that it is generally
the poor who tend to suffer worst from
disasters.
preventionweb.net

18. Identify the vulnerability factor/type.
1. Bridges with cracks
2. Covid vaccine restriction among senior citizens.
3. Denudation of forest.
4. Destruction of mangroves.
5. Excessive construction near Boracay.
6. Hearing impaired cannot hear the earthquake drill
alarm.
7. Houses built near the fault lines.
8. OFWs cannot speak the native language.
9. Retrenchment of ABS – CBN employees.
10. Street vendors are prohibited to trade because of Covid.
Checking for Understanding

19. Guess who’s the vulnerable sector?
Identify the vulnerable
population by unlocking
the 3 given clue words.

20. Starts with letter…
P
Word
clue #1
Word
clue #2
Word
clue #3
NINE
BUMP
BLESSING
Guess who’s the vulnerable sector?
PREGNAN
T

21. Starts with letter…
S
Word
clue #1
Word
clue #2
Word
clue #3
SOLO FLIGHT
ONE
STRUGGLE IS
REAL
Guess who’s the vulnerable sector?
SOLO PARENT

22. Starts with letter…
P
Word
clue #1
Word
clue #2
Word
clue #3
PARALYMPICS
INSPIRATIONAL
ABLE
Guess who’s the vulnerable sector?
PERSONS
WITH
DISABILITY

23. Starts with letter…
M
Word
clue #1
Word
clue #2
Word
clue #3
GREENER
PASTURE
HOMESICK
LONG
DISTANCE
Guess who’s the vulnerable sector?
MIGRANT
WORKERS

24. Starts with letter…
W
Word
clue #1
Word
clue #2
Word
clue #3
MARCH 8
EQUALITY
I CAN!
Guess who’s the vulnerable sector?
WOMEN

25. Starts with letter…
I
Word
clue #1
Word
clue #2
Word
clue #3
NO TAX
UNDERGROUND
SELF
Guess who’s the vulnerable sector?
INFORMAL
SECTOR

26. Starts with letter…
D
Word
clue #1
Word
clue #2
Word
clue #3
N.P.A
LOCATION
NOMAD
Guess who’s the vulnerable sector?
DISPLACED

27. Starts with letter…
C
Word
clue #1
Word
clue #2
Word
clue #3
FUTURE
HOPE
YOUNG
Guess who’s the vulnerable sector?
CHILDREN

28. Analyze the given situation then identify the
following:
a. Hazard
b. Factor driving vulnerability
c. How to reduce vulnerability.
Situational Analysis

29. Your father requested that you download the
Hazard Hunter app because your father is nervous,
especially since your house is old. You always have
a reason for your father every time he asks you to
download the said app. Then a magnitude 6
earthquake occurred.
earthquake
Physical:
Old House
Environmental:
Fault Line
Consult the
how safe is
your house?
Checklist
Secure a
hazard map.
Hazard Vulnerability How to reduce?

30. Your city is a flood – prone area. The highest water
level is up to the knee of an adult person. A super
typhoon suddenly came; and the flood reached up
to the roof of most houses.
Typhoon –
induced
flood
Physical:
Poor urban
planning
Environmental:
Geographical
location
• Evacuate
• Stay
updated
• insurance
• Organize a
community
DRRR
planning
Hazard Vulnerability How to reduce?

31. A social worker is assigned on an evacuation
center. The number of evacuees have reached its
maximum limit. During a typhoon, the social
worker witnessed how a PWD was forced to sleep
in his wheelchair. The PWD’s thigh almost got a
rash because of the flood.
Typhoon Social: PWD
Special
attention for
PWDs
Collect
community
PWD data
Hazard Vulnerability How to reduce?

32. Your father makes and sells ice cream for a living.
But because of the enhanced community quarantine
in your area, selling on the street was prohibited.
Pandemic
Economic:
loss of
livelihood
Subsidy
Have an
Emergency
Fund
Hazard Vulnerability How to reduce?

33. Assignment:
EMERGENCY PLAN!
Draw the floor plan of your house and make
an emergency escape plan.
How will you plan for the escape of all your
family members with limited exit points?
Make sure that your escape plan is feasible
and will prevent stampede.

34. Summary
Vulnerability refers to the “factors of the
community that allow a hazard to cause a
disaster.”
Vulnerability is categorized into:
• Physical Vulnerability (Physical aspect)
• Social Vulnerability (welfare)
• Economic Vulnerability (level of economic status)
• Environmental Vulnerability (quantity of natural
resources)