Disasters In The Philippines Essay

The world has seen and experiences all kind of natural and even man – made disasters. Hundreds of violent floods, terrifying storms, scorching heat and drought have left about 606,000 people and a total of 4.1 billion left injured and homeless in a span of last two decades (1995 – 2015), according to a United Nation report. This kind of extreme weather – related disasters have caused nearly two trillion dollar in economic losses. According to the report, the five countries hit the hardest were the United States, China, India, Philippines and Indonesia. The organization found out that half of the recorded disasters were made up of floods, resulting 157,000 fatalities and a total of 242,000 casualties in storms.
The Philippines is an archipelago

Philippines is greatly affected by climate change, disasters such as storms hitting the country becomes more violent and stronger. The country is an example of archipelagic state is any state of nation that comprises a group of islands, consisting of 7,641 islands; and from that 7,641 islands, an estimated of 2000 islands are resided by Filipinos. According to the 2015 National Census, the Philippines have a total population of 100, 981, 437 and density of 342.35 per square kilometer. With this kind of geography, experts observed the difficulty of humanitarian

This agency is the National Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council (NDRRMC). It is primarily concern in coordinating and working with group of various governmental and non – governmental organizations involved in disaster management. Due to the geographical feature of the country, there is an inherently high uncertainty and complexity in the relief environment that may lead to an inefficient such as high cost, duplication of effort and waste of all resources and ineffectiveness such as slow response and unsatisfied demand response. The existing system wastes almost 20 million relief packs that were not delivered or rotten due to its poor