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    Vulnerability is defined as the state of being susceptible to harm from hazards. A community's vulnerability depends on factors like population density, capacity to manage disasters, and socioeconomic status. High population density increases vulnerability, while greater resources and disaster preparedness reduce it. The Philippines has advanced technology for typhoon prediction but remains vulnerable economically and due to environmental damage from activities like deforestation. Vulnerability arises from weaknesses in physical, social, economic, and environmental dimensions.

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    Vulnerability is defined as the state of being susceptible to harm from hazards. A community's vulnerability depends on factors like population density, capacity to manage disasters, and socioeconomic status. High population density increases vulnerability, while greater resources and disaster preparedness reduce it. The Philippines has advanced technology for typhoon prediction but remains vulnerable economically and due to environmental damage from activities like deforestation. Vulnerability arises from weaknesses in physical, social, economic, and environmental dimensions.

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    Vulnerability is defined as the state of being susceptible to harm from hazards. A community's vulnerability depends on factors like population density, capacity to manage disasters, and socioeconomic status. High population density increases vulnerability, while greater resources and disaster preparedness reduce it. The Philippines has advanced technology for typhoon prediction but remains vulnerable economically and due to environmental damage from activities like deforestation. Vulnerability arises from weaknesses in physical, social, economic, and environmental dimensions.

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    LESSON 5: Vulnerability

    Vulnerability Defined

    Vulnerability is a state of being at risk. According to Republic Act 10121


    also known as ‘Philippine Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Act of
    2010’, vulnerability is defined as the characteristics and circumstances of a
    community, system or resource that make it susceptible to the damaging
    effects of a hazard. With all the identified hazard at home, there is a
    possibility that some family members might be susceptible or prone to the
    accident due to the presence of hazard.

    Factors affecting vulnerability of one’s community:

    1. Population density near a hazard event.


    • Population differs from population density.
    • Population refers to the number of individuals inhabiting in a
    particular space at the same time. If people are well distributed,
    there is lesser effect of disaster.
    • Population density refers to the number of individuals living in
    an area in relation to the size of an area. If population density is
    high, it means that the number of individuals is high but the
    space is very small. In that case, if fire broke in that area, there
    is little space for the population to escape quickly and easily. So,
    crowded communities have higher vulnerability to hazards.
    • The primary consideration is not the population size but the
    population density.

    2. Capacity and efficiency to reduce Disaster Risk.


    • Community that is less vulnerable has the capacity to reduce
    disaster risk because;
    1. It can provide accessibility and availability of services and
    facilities during and after disaster.
    2. It has the ability to anticipate, adapt, and respond to possible
    disaster.
    • Is it appropriate to say that The Philippines is less vulnerable to
    typhoon? Nowadays, our country has advanced technology to
    predict super typhoon and several municipalities already
    provided evacuation centers to provide temporary housing for
    victims when disaster occur.

    Recognize vulnerabilities of different elements exposed to specific hazards.

    Physical vulnerability includes population density levels, place


    of a settlement, the site design, and materials used for infrastructure
    and housing. When hazardous events occur, normally physical
    elements are severely damaged. For example, UP Visayas buildings
    were totally destroyed during the super typhoon Yolanda in 2008
    leaving the structure totally damaged. Another example is the
    decreased in population density like what happened in Baguio during
    the 1990 earthquake in North Luzon when a lot of people were injured
    and died.

    Social vulnerability happens due to inability of people,


    organization, and societies to prevent severe effects from hazards
    because of the expected behavior in social interactions, institutions,
    and system of cultural values. For example, during typhoon the line of
    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.

    Level of economic vulnerability is based on the economic status


    of individuals, communities, and nations. The poorer the country, the
    more vulnerable to disasters because they lack the funds or budgets to
    build sturdy structures and put other engineering measures in place
    which protect them from being affected by disasters. So, we can say
    that Philippines is more vulnerable to an event such as earthquake
    compared to Japan. Though both countries are exposed to earthquake
    hazard because both are located in the Pacific ring of fire, but due to
    differences in economic status, Japan is more resilient because of its
    ability to afford changes in architectural and engineering designs of
    building and infrastructures to make them less vulnerable to
    earthquake. Another example is the Covid-19 pandemic wherein the
    most affected are those who belong to low income and informal workers.
    Social and economic vulnerability can be combined also known
    as socioeconomic vulnerability.

    Environmental vulnerability is caused by natural resources


    depletion and destruction. Organisms like humans, animals, and
    plants are all dependent on the environment for survival. Human
    activities like deforestation, burning of fossil fuels, and kaingin affect
    the natural abilities of the environment to protect itself from any natural
    hazard due to absence of trees which may cause landslide and
    flashfloods. Sometimes the effects are irreversible.

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