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Understanding Disaster Dynamics

The document discusses different perspectives on disasters including: 1) Disasters are sudden events that cause great damage or loss of life, whether due to natural or man-made causes. An event becomes a disaster when it becomes uncontrollable and disruptive, resulting in losses. 2) Risk factors for disasters include climate change, environmental degradation, unequal global development, poverty, poor urban planning, and weak governance. 3) Disasters can be analyzed from psychological, socio-cultural, economic, political and cultural perspectives, such as their impacts on mental health, social issues, economics, and politics. Natural disasters are caused by nature while physical disasters are human-made.

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Understanding Disaster Dynamics

The document discusses different perspectives on disasters including: 1) Disasters are sudden events that cause great damage or loss of life, whether due to natural or man-made causes. An event becomes a disaster when it becomes uncontrollable and disruptive, resulting in losses. 2) Risk factors for disasters include climate change, environmental degradation, unequal global development, poverty, poor urban planning, and weak governance. 3) Disasters can be analyzed from psychological, socio-cultural, economic, political and cultural perspectives, such as their impacts on mental health, social issues, economics, and politics. Natural disasters are caused by nature while physical disasters are human-made.

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1. What is the meaning of disaster?

 Disaster a sudden event, such as an accident or a


natural catastrophe, that causes great damage or loss of
life.

2. Expain when and how and event becomes a disaster?


 An event, whether natural or man-made, becomes a
disaster if the event become uncontrollable in a
relatively short time. It is deemed disaster once a serious
disruption is noted. Moreover, minor to significant
losses, which can either be life or economic in nature,
become evident once an event becomes a disaster.

3. Differentiate the risk factor underlying disaster.


 Climate change - can increase disaster risk in a variety
of ways – by altering the frequency and intensity of
hazards events, affecting vulnerability to hazards, and
changing exposure patterns.
 Environmental Degradation - It is both a driver and
consequence of disasters, reducing the capacity of the
environment to meet social and ecological needs.
 Globalized Economic Development - It resulted in
increased polarization between the rich and poor on a
global scale.
 Poverty and Inequality - Poverty is both a driver and
consequence of disasters, and the processes that further
disaster risk related poverty are permeated with
inequality.
 Poorly-planned and Managed Urban Development - A
new wave of urbanization is unfolding in hazard-exposed
countries and with it, new opportunities for resilient
investment emerge.

 Weak Governance - 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.

4. Analyze disaster from different perspectives


(psychological, socio-cultural, economic, political,
cultural)

 Natural and physical disasters Natural disasters are


disasters made by nature some natural disasters are
tornadoes,hurricanes,floods,earthquakes and. tsunamis
Physical disasters are human made disasters such as
global warming or house fires.

 Psychological disaster For people already experiencing


a mental illness, a traumatic event can make symptoms
worse. And for others, a natural disaster can spark
depression, extreme stress, generalized anxiety, eating
and food issues, obsessive-compulsion, and a host of
other problems.
 The Economic Cost of the Social Impact of Natural
Disasters states that increased mental health issues,
alcohol misuse, domestic violence, chronic disease and
short-term unemployment have resulted from extreme
weather events such as bushfires, severe storms,
cyclones, floods and earthquakes in

 Biological disaster refers to calamity caused by the


exposure of living organisms to germs and toxic
substances. For instance, spread of a disease, a virus,
an epidemic, and a locust plague. It belongs to the class
of natural disasters

 The politics of disaster - Nicaragua. ... Disasters


themselves raise a number of issues of a political or
economic nature, and die response to a natural disaster
both in the short and the long term is largely determined
by the political relations within a country, and between
that country and the international community.

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