What is Disaster Risk Management?
Disaster Risk Management is a process of mobilizing a group of people in a systematic way towards achieving a common risk reduction objective which takes place in a geographically-defined living area (or) in sector groups.
The local people must know what disaster management and risk reduction stand for, what their own responsibilities are, how they can help prevent disasters, how they must react during a disaster and what they can do to support themselves when necessary.
Awareness and knowledge will built the risk perceiption of local people. The analysing and understanding the risk of particular hazard to their lives properties, local people can take steps to reduce those risks and minimize the damages caused by the hazard.
The involvement and awareness of local community are therefore a critical element of disaster risk management.
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What is Disaster Risk Management?
Labels: disaster, risk reduction
Concept & Terminologies of Hazards
WHAT IS HAZARD?
Hazard is an event or occurrence that has the potential for causing injuries to life and damaging property and the environment.
WHAT IS RISK?
The 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.
WHAT IS DISASTER?
A serious disruption of the functioning of a community causing widespread human, material or environmental losses which exceed the ability of the affected community to cope using its own resources.
WHAT IS VULNERABILITY?
Vulnerability is a condition or sets of conditions that reduces people’s ability to prepare for, withstand or respond to a hazard
Hazard is an event or occurrence that has the potential for causing injuries to life and damaging property and the environment.
WHAT IS RISK?
The 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.
WHAT IS DISASTER?
A serious disruption of the functioning of a community causing widespread human, material or environmental losses which exceed the ability of the affected community to cope using its own resources.
WHAT IS VULNERABILITY?
Vulnerability is a condition or sets of conditions that reduces people’s ability to prepare for, withstand or respond to a hazard
WHAT IS CAPACITY?
Capacities are those positive condition or abilities which increase a community’s ability to deal with hazards.
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Labels: capacity, disaster, hazards, risk, vulnerability
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