Disaster Risk Reduction and
Management
Emergency Management - answerway to manage the impact of disaster or losses
D=H - answerLinear model in emergency management
Disaster Preparedness - answerimprovement of the emergency management concept for it
goes one step backward before a disaster or crisis happens
Vulnerability - answercondition determined by physical, social, economic, and environmental
factors or processes that increase the susceptibility of a community to the impact of
disasters
Capacity - answercombination of all strengths and resources available within a community,
society or organization that can reduce the level of risk or effects of a disaster
Disaster Management - answercyclical model that features prevention, mitigation,
preparedness, disaster response (formerly emergency response), recovery, and
development.
Citizenry-Based and Development-Oriented Disaster Response (CBDO-DR) - answeraims to
contribute to pro-people development for the general improvement of the well-being and
quality of life for the majority of the Filipinos
Disaster Risk Management - answersystematic process of using administrative decisions.
organization, operational skills, and capacities to implement policies, strategies,and coping
mechanisms of the society and communities to lessen the impact of natural hazards and
related environmental and technological disasters. These comprise all forms of activities,
including structural and non-structural measures to avoid (prevention) or to limit (mitigation
and preparedness) adverse effects of hazards.
Disaster Risk Reduction - answerthe conceptual framework of elements considered with the
possibilities to minimize vulnerabilities and disaster risks throughout a society, to avoid
(prevention) or to limit the adverse impact of hazards within the broad context of
sustainable development
Prevention - answeractivities to provide outright avoidance of the adverse impacts of
hazards and means to minimize related environmental, technological, and biological
disasters.
Mitigation - answerstructural and non-structural measures undertaken to limit the adverse
impact of natural hazards, environmental degradation and technological hazards.
Preparedness - answerPre-disaster activities that are undertaken within the context of
disaster risk management and are based on sound risk analysis
Relief/Response - answerthe provision of assistance or intervention during or immediately
after a disaster to meet life preservation and to meet the basic subsistence needs of those
people affected
Management
Emergency Management - answerway to manage the impact of disaster or losses
D=H - answerLinear model in emergency management
Disaster Preparedness - answerimprovement of the emergency management concept for it
goes one step backward before a disaster or crisis happens
Vulnerability - answercondition determined by physical, social, economic, and environmental
factors or processes that increase the susceptibility of a community to the impact of
disasters
Capacity - answercombination of all strengths and resources available within a community,
society or organization that can reduce the level of risk or effects of a disaster
Disaster Management - answercyclical model that features prevention, mitigation,
preparedness, disaster response (formerly emergency response), recovery, and
development.
Citizenry-Based and Development-Oriented Disaster Response (CBDO-DR) - answeraims to
contribute to pro-people development for the general improvement of the well-being and
quality of life for the majority of the Filipinos
Disaster Risk Management - answersystematic process of using administrative decisions.
organization, operational skills, and capacities to implement policies, strategies,and coping
mechanisms of the society and communities to lessen the impact of natural hazards and
related environmental and technological disasters. These comprise all forms of activities,
including structural and non-structural measures to avoid (prevention) or to limit (mitigation
and preparedness) adverse effects of hazards.
Disaster Risk Reduction - answerthe conceptual framework of elements considered with the
possibilities to minimize vulnerabilities and disaster risks throughout a society, to avoid
(prevention) or to limit the adverse impact of hazards within the broad context of
sustainable development
Prevention - answeractivities to provide outright avoidance of the adverse impacts of
hazards and means to minimize related environmental, technological, and biological
disasters.
Mitigation - answerstructural and non-structural measures undertaken to limit the adverse
impact of natural hazards, environmental degradation and technological hazards.
Preparedness - answerPre-disaster activities that are undertaken within the context of
disaster risk management and are based on sound risk analysis
Relief/Response - answerthe provision of assistance or intervention during or immediately
after a disaster to meet life preservation and to meet the basic subsistence needs of those
people affected
