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The document defines key concepts related to disaster risks, including hazards, exposure, vulnerability, and risk. It emphasizes the importance of understanding these concepts to mitigate the impacts of disasters and highlights that exposure does not necessarily equate to vulnerability. Additionally, it outlines the need for proactive disaster mitigation measures and includes an activity for creating an information brochure on hazard exposure elements in a chosen community.

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The document defines key concepts related to disaster risks, including hazards, exposure, vulnerability, and risk. It emphasizes the importance of understanding these concepts to mitigate the impacts of disasters and highlights that exposure does not necessarily equate to vulnerability. Additionally, it outlines the need for proactive disaster mitigation measures and includes an activity for creating an information brochure on hazard exposure elements in a chosen community.

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Effects of Hazard, Exposure and

Vulnerability to Disaster Risks


After going through this lesson, you are
expected to:
1. define hazards, exposure, and vulnerabilities;
2. explain the difference among hazards,
exposure, and vulnerabilities;
3. appreciate the importance of understanding
the concepts about hazard, exposure and
vulnerabilities so that it will be applied in
everyday situations.
Defining Hazard, Vulnerability and Risk
•Hazard is a harmful condition, substance,
human behavior or condition that can cause
loss of life, injury or other health effects,
harm to property, loss of livelihood and
services, social and economic disruption or
damage to the environment. Any risk which
is imminent is threat.
•Exposure is the presence of elements at risk or
chance of being harmed from a natural or man-made
hazard event. Elements include the individuals,
households or communities, properties, buildings and
structures, agricultural commodities, livelihoods, and
public facilities, infrastructures and environmental
assets present in an area that are subject to potential
damage or even losses. The more a community is
exposed to hazard factors, the higher is the disaster
risk or higher chance disaster occurrence.
•Vulnerability means the characteristics
and circumstances of a community, system,
or asset, that make it susceptible to the
damaging effects of a hazard and inability of
a community to prevent, mitigate, prepare
for and respond to hazardous events.
•Risk implies the probability of possible
adverse effects. This results from the
interaction of social and environmental
systems, from the combination of physical
danger, and exposed item vulnerabilities.
•Disaster is a serious disruption to the
functioning of a community or society which
causes widespread human, material, economic
or environmental losses that exceed the capacity
of the community or society concerned to cope
with the use of their own resources. It results
from the mix of hazards, risk conditions and
inadequate capability or measures.
•Exposure and Vulnerability, on the
other hand, are distinct. A certain community
can be exposed but it does not mean that it is
vulnerable. Buildings and structures in Japan are
exposed to earthquake, but they are not
vulnerable since their architectural and
engineering designs are earthquake proof or
resistant. However, to become vulnerable, it
must be exposed to hazard first.
• Exposure to hazard can make a community
vulnerable. But not all communities that are
exposed to hazard can be considered vulnerable.
Vulnerability depends on the preparedness and
readiness to a hazard of the community. It
depends mostly on how they mitigate, respond,
and recover. If a certain community has the
ability to reduce the vulnerability by reducing
the risk, the said community is already
considered as less vulnerable or resilient.
•Disaster mitigation measures are those that
eliminate or reduce the impacts and risks of
hazards by means of proactive measures
taken before an emergency or disaster takes
place. Mitigation is the action of reducing
something's severity, seriousness, or
painfulness.
Activity/Performance Task
Direction: Create an information brochure about
the elements of hazard exposure. Visit a community
using google map (you can choose your own
community or barangay. Determine all the elements
exposed to hazard in that locality. Use your resources
to create a creative brochure. Be creative and include
emergency hotlines as much as possible. You will be
graded based on the rubrics given.

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