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Living in Disaster: Disaster Readiness and Risk Reduction Week 2 Module 1

This document discusses the effects of disasters on people's lives. It describes how hazards can lead to disasters, and the impact depends on factors like vulnerability, exposure, economic status, and coping capacity. Activities are provided to think about how different groups may be affected by earthquakes or typhoons based on their living situations. The document stresses that disasters are shaped by social, economic and environmental vulnerabilities in a community.

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Living in Disaster: Disaster Readiness and Risk Reduction Week 2 Module 1

This document discusses the effects of disasters on people's lives. It describes how hazards can lead to disasters, and the impact depends on factors like vulnerability, exposure, economic status, and coping capacity. Activities are provided to think about how different groups may be affected by earthquakes or typhoons based on their living situations. The document stresses that disasters are shaped by social, economic and environmental vulnerabilities in a community.

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Living in disaster

Learning Competency:
Describe the effects of disasters
in one’s life.

Disaster Readiness and Risk Reduction


Week 2 Module 1
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LESSON 3:
EFFECTS OF DISASTERS

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 This module will let you describe the effects of disaster in
one’s life. Specifically, you will be able to learn the
following:
 a. identify specific hazards that leads to disaster;
 b. describe effects of disaster in one’s life based on types
of hazards; and
 c. relate risk factors that influence experiences toward
disasters.
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Tell me something!

Hazard
?
Vulnerability Exposure

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ACTIVITY 1: HAZARD’S WRATH
 Situation: Supposed there is a typhoon signal number three that will
strike two types of house as pictured below. Describe what may
happen.
 Compare how vulnerable the two structures are with the given hazard.
Explain how people could have experienced disaster based on the type
of house they reside in.

During Typhoon

After Typhoon 5
ACTIVITY 2: LET’S THINK WITH EMOTIONS
 Situation: There was a strong earthquake in your
community where there are many families living in
your area. Describe the fear reactions of each person
described below by rating it from 1 to 3 and noting 3
being the most fearsome feeling. Be able to answer the
questions that follow.

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People’s Ages Reaction In extreme situation after an
earthquake, how would you
Children ages 3-9 describe the feeling among the
people’s ages?
Teenagers

Women Would you think that among


people’s ages or genders have
Men the same degree of reactions
Elders
toward hazard?
Why do you think so?
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REMEMBER
 There are natural hazards but no natural disasters.
Disaster is the impact of hazard’s result to society.
 It is therefore said that the effects of disaster is the
influenced of vulnerability of community towards the
nature of hazards (the coping capacity).
 The entire result of vulnerability of a society is equated
with its changing factors such as economic, social,
physical, cultural, political and psychological aspects
where people lives and create their environments. 8
CHECK YOUR UNDERSTANDING
 Use the following letter to describe your answer:
 A- Greatly affected
 B- Slightly affected
 C- Little to no effect
 D- it depends

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A- Greatly affected B- Slightly affected C- Little to no effect D- it depends

People in Psychological Economic Coping


Society Status Capacity
Children
Women
Men
Senior Citizens

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Care and Concern for others:
 In your own little way, how can you be able to help
someone who experienced a disaster in their life?

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