DRRR q3 Mod.5 8 Vulnerability
DRRR q3 Mod.5 8 Vulnerability
DRRR q3 Mod.5 8 Vulnerability
Risk Reduction
Quarter 1 – Module 5:
Vulnerability
Lesson Explain the meaning of
1 Vulnerability
What’s In
Direction: Spot the hazard. Write your answer on a separate sheet of paper.
` Figure A Figure B
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2. After knowing the hazards in your house, what is your plan of action
to avoid harm?
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What is It
Vulnerability Defined
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Disaster Readiness and
Risk Reduction
Quarter 1 – Module 6:
Vulnerability in Disaster
What is It
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Disaster Readiness and
Risk Reduction
Quarter 1 – Module 7:
Vulnerabilities of Different
Elements Exposed to Hazards
Lesson
Recognize vulnerabilities of
different elements exposed
1 to specific hazards.
The learners in this module will realize that recognizing the vulnerabilities of different
elements exposed to hazard will help the community design to formulate strategies
on prevention, mitigation, and immediate response and possible rehabilitations after
a major event such as natural disasters, war and the other similar situations.
What’s In
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If you are going to assign labels or headings for each category, what could it be?
Category 1 ______________________________________
Category 2 ______________________________________
Category 3 ______________________________________
What’s New
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GUIDE WORDS:
What is It
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communications were cut off when cell sites shutdown or disruption of
transport system due to inability of small vehicles to pass through the
flooded areas or unpassable roads and bridges. With some difficulties
in the delivery of services such as relief goods and medicines, a lot of
problems occurred like shortage of food and spread of infectious
diseases. Therefore, when social elements were exposed to hazard,
these may lead to disruption of normal processes and activities in the
community.
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The Philippines has high vulnerability due to the following
reasons:
• It lies in the Pacific typhoon belt and we are visited by an
average of 20 typhoons every year.
• Rugged nature of the landscape makes it vulnerable to
landslide, mudflows, and other disasters.
• It is an archipelagic country with many small islands where
some areas are at below sea level.
• It has the longest shoreline in the world at 32,400 km making
it vulnerable to storm surges.
• It is still a primary agricultural and fishing economy.
• With poor institutional and social capacity to manage,
respond, and recover from natural hazard events.
• With high level of poverty
• Aside from typhoon, it is also at risk to volcanic eruptions,
quakes, and floods.
What’s More
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Disaster Readiness and
Risk Reduction
Quarter 1 – Module 8:
Effects of Hazard, Exposure and
Vulnerability to Disaster Risks
14. It is the action of reducing the severity, seriousness or painfulness of
something.
a. migration
b. misconception
c. mitigation
d. mutation
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What’s New
A Sample essay:
Back when I was 7 years old, when I still lived in the Philippines, I woke
up in the middle of night to the sounds of the trees near our home violently
swaying against the house and the terrifying howls of the wind. Now, bare in
mind, that this was the Philippines. The 2nd country of the world to have the
most typhoons. At first, we tried to ignore it, thinking that it would pass by
soon but we were quickly proven wrong though once we got a hold of the Wi-
Fi and saw online that this weather was labeled as a Signal No. 2. It meant
that this certain typhoon was capable of generating floods and strong waves. I
became even more terrified when I saw my father get me and my sister down
to the 1st floor and in the extra bedroom. Throughout the walk, you could feel
the house shake and tremble.
Once we reached the room, with all honesty, I was sure that I was going
to die. The thing, too, is that in front of our house, stood a large tree. And
during this event, it was swaying so violently that you’d expect it to fall directly
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on our house. We were saying our prayers and my parents repeatedly told me
and my sibling how much they loved us.
Flooded up to the 3rd floor. Their store collapsed. And barely any of their
items were rescued. It saddens me, really, recalling my older cousin, Ate
Hannah, who was usually the calm one, sit by the stairs to our home, holding
and crying about her stuffed-toy. It was soggy, destroyed, and ruined.
And at the time, none of us really knew, that we have survived the
second most devastating tropical cyclone in the 2009 Pacific typhoon season
of the Philippines; Typhoon Ondoy (Ketsana)
Direction: Analyze and answer the following questions after the given
scenario.
SITUATION 1:
You are a mom. You live in Brgy. Aplaya, which is right next to Laguna de Bay.
You have a 2-storey house, and the ground floor where your sari-sari store is
situated already flooded. You wrapped your baby and went to the second floor,
but the flood is fast rising and you are likely to get trapped. Your husband went
to Barangay Hall, where they prepared boats, but he has not yet come back.
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2. What are the possible ways to lessen the vulnerability of the exposed
elements to hazard? Explain your answer.
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SITUATION 2:
You are in grade 12, at your age you usually spend your time with your friends and
go other places with them. You are very much excited because this is the day where
you and your friends have been waiting for, A moment later President Duterte
announced the Enhanced Community Quarantine in entire Luzon because of the
COVID-19 Pandemic. You and your friends decided not to continue your outing and
change it into friends gathering party near you.
2. What are the possible ways to lessen the vulnerability of the exposed
elements to hazard? Explain your answer.
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What is It
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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.
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.
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has the ability to reduce the vulnerability by reducing the risk, the said community
is already considered as less vulnerable or resilient.
C.J. Van Wester , “General Classification of Elements at Risk”, Caribbean Handbook on Risk Information
Management, C.J. Van Wester http://www.charim.net/methodology/52
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.
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What’s More
Guide Questions:
1. What can you say about the picture? What does the quotation mean?
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2. What is the hazard in the picture/ situation?
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3. What is being exposed in the picture/ situation?
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4. Why do you think the character in the picture is vulnerable?
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