DISASTER RISK REDUCTION (DRR)

Preface

There is no such
thing as a 'natural'
disaster, only
natural hazards.

Disaster Risk
= function (Hazard, Exposure,
Vulnerability)

Aims

Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) aims to reduce

the damage caused by natural hazards like
earthquakes, floods, droughts and cyclones,
through an ethic of prevention.
Disasters often follow natural hazards.
A disaster's severity depends on how much
impact a hazard has on society and the
environment.

The scale of the impact in turn depends on

the choices we make for our lives and for our
environment.
These choices relate to how we grow our food,
where and how we build our homes, what kind
of government we have, how our financial
system works and even what we teach in
schools.
Each decision and action makes us more
vulnerable
to reduction
disasters - or
to
Disaster
risk
is more
aboutresilient
choices
them.

The concept and practice

Disaster risk reduction is the concept and

practice of reducing disaster risks through
systematic efforts to analyse and reduce the
causal factors of disasters.

Reducing exposure to hazards

lessening vulnerability of people and property
wise management of land and the environment,
improving preparedness and early warning for
adverse events

Whos involved?

Disaster risk reduction (DRR) work "concerns

everyone, from villagers to heads of state,
from bankers and lawyers to farmers and
foresters, from meteorologists to media
chiefs."
(Living with Risk: A Global Review of Disaster
Reduction Initiatives 2004. Geneva: UNISDR,
2004)..

DRR-related themes and issues are wide

and cross-cutting

Landslides
Tsunamis
Volcanoes
Flood
Earthquake
Typhoon
Storm surge

Land slide
Land slide is defined as "the movement of a
mass of rock, debris, or earth down a slope."
The term encompasses events such as rock
falls, topples, slides, spreads, and flows, such
as debris flows commonly referred to as
mudflows or mudslides. Land slides can be
initiated by rainfall, earthquakes, volcanic
activity, changes in groundwater, disturbance
and change of a slope by man-made
construction activities, or any combination of
these factors.source: USGS

Volcano
Vents in the surface of the Earth through
which magma and associated gases erupt;
also, the forms of structures, usually conical,
that are produced by the erupted
material.source: USGS

Tsunami
Waves generated by submarine earth
movements, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions
or landslides.source: CRED

Earthquake
Shaking, trembling or displacement of the
earth surface due to seismic waves or other
phenomena of volcanic or tectonic
origin.source: CRED

Flood

A flood is an overflow of a body of water (rive,

lake) that submerges land or the abnormal
accumulation of water on the surface due to
excess rainfall and rise of the groundwater
level above surface on impermeable or
saturated terrains.source: CRED
Inundation,

Cyclone

A cyclone is a non-frontal storm system that is

characterized by a low pressure centre, spiral
rain bands and strong winds. Usually it
originates over tropical or subtropical waters
and rotates clockwise in the southern
hemisphere and counter-clockwise in the
northern hemisphere.source: CRED

Storm Surge

Storm surge is water that is pushed toward

the shore by the force of the winds swirling
around the storm. A storm surge can come
from a hurricane or an extra-tropical
cyclone.source: NOAA-Hurricane
Preparedness

Technical Disaster
Related, an industrial accident is a disaster
type term used to describe technological
accidents of an industrial nature involving
industrial buildings. It comprises a number of
disaster subsets: chemical spill/leak,
explosions, collapses, gas leaks, etc. It is also
used to describe technological transport
accidents involving mechanized modes of
transport.source: CRED
Ex. Chernobyl

UTS

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