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    Disasters can be natural, accidental, or man-made and cause deaths, injuries, and economic losses each year. Examples of natural disasters include floods, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions, while accidents include shipwrecks and structural collapses. Man-made disasters are caused by humans, such as through acts of terrorism, war, or massacres. Communities can take measures like increasing awareness, education, preparedness, and developing prediction and warning systems to reduce the disruptive impacts of disasters. Media plays a key role in raising disaster awareness, while education programs aim to save lives and prevent injuries. Advances in technology are providing more accurate warnings, but communities often resist mitigation efforts due to economic

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    Disasters can be natural, accidental, or man-made and cause deaths, injuries, and economic losses each year. Examples of natural disasters include floods, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions, while accidents include shipwrecks and structural collapses. Man-made disasters are caused by humans, such as through acts of terrorism, war, or massacres. Communities can take measures like increasing awareness, education, preparedness, and developing prediction and warning systems to reduce the disruptive impacts of disasters. Media plays a key role in raising disaster awareness, while education programs aim to save lives and prevent injuries. Advances in technology are providing more accurate warnings, but communities often resist mitigation efforts due to economic

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    Disasters can be natural, accidental, or man-made and cause deaths, injuries, and economic losses each year. Examples of natural disasters include floods, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions, while accidents include shipwrecks and structural collapses. Man-made disasters are caused by humans, such as through acts of terrorism, war, or massacres. Communities can take measures like increasing awareness, education, preparedness, and developing prediction and warning systems to reduce the disruptive impacts of disasters. Media plays a key role in raising disaster awareness, while education programs aim to save lives and prevent injuries. Advances in technology are providing more accurate warnings, but communities often resist mitigation efforts due to economic

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    RAQUEL B.

    VI AS MAEd SCIENCE

    Disasters continue to cause thousands of deaths and injuries and billions of dollars of
    economic losses each year. Disasters can be natural, accidents and man-made. Natural
    disaster is a major adverse event resulting from natural processes of the Earth; examples
    include floods, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, tsunamis and other geologic processes.
    Accidents are incidental and unplanned event that could have been prevented had
    circumstances leading to the accident been recognized, and acted upon, prior to its
    occurrence; examples include shipwreck, structural failures and collapses. Man-made
    disasters are made by people rather than by nature; examples are terrorists incidents,
    wars, and massacres. Disasters can cause loss of life or property damage, and typically
    leaves some economic damage in its wake, the severity of which depends on the affected
    populations resilience or ability to recover.
    To prevent or reduce the disruptive impacts of a disaster on community, certain
    measures/actions can be taken such as awareness, education, preparedness, and prediction
    and warning systems. How can these help the community?
    Awareness - media has a very significant role in information dissemination.
    Everyone rely on media for information. In developing populations disaster awareness,
    media is a powerful tool to do it.
    Education - The role of education for disaster risk reduction strategies can be
    presented according to three types of activities: 1) save lives and prevent injuries should a
    hazardous event occur, 2) prevent interruptions to the provisions of education, or ensure
    its swift resumption in the event of an interruption, and 3) develop a resilient population
    that is able to reduce the economic, social, and cultural impacts should a hazardous event
    occur.
    Prediction and Warning System - advances in technology are providing decision-
    makers with increasingly accurate and useful information on the potential impacts of
    natural disasters on society. The challenge is to apply this information and translate
    current understanding of natural hazards into meaningful action at the community level.
    The aim of these measures is to reduce socio-economic vulnerabilities to disaster as
    well as dealing with the environmental and other hazards that trigger them and this is a
    responsibility of development and relief agencies alike. It should be an integral part of the
    way such organizations do their work, not an add-on or one-off action. Equally important
    is the human side of mitigation; programs should reflect the needs of an urban, aging,
    technologically oriented society.
    Despite increasing vulnerability to natural disasters, many communities resist
    adopting mitigation programs. The barriers are economic, social and political and
    mitigation is often perceived as restrictive, costly and incompatible with the communitys
    economic development goals.

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