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Tag: Disaster Preparedness

  • Categories Earth Files Editor's Pick Podcast

    Bumagyo, Bumaha … Teka … Ano Bang Mapa Ang Gamit N’yo?

    By VERA Files  |  Nov 09, 2022 9:00 AM

    Paano mas magiging maayos ang paghahanda sa mga sakunang dala ng bagyo? Pakinggan natin ang pananaw ng Mines and Geosciences Bureau at ng City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office ng Balanga City, Bataan dito sa ikalawang bahagi ng Episode 15 ng What The F?! Podcast.

    Climate Change, Climate Change Act, climate change adaptation, DENR, deterministic map, Disaster Preparedness, geo hazard map, Mines and Geosciences Bureau, National Climate Risk Management Framework, People’s Survival Fund, probabilistic hazard map, probabilistic risk assessment, Project NOAH, RA 10174

  • WhatTheF VERA Files Podcast EP 15: Bumagyo, Bumaha … Ganito Pa Rin Tayo?
    Categories Earth Files Editor's Pick Podcast

    Bumagyo, Bumaha … Ganito Pa Rin Tayo?

    By VERA Files  |  Nov 03, 2022 10:58 AM

    Ilang Bagyong Paeng pa ba ang raragasa sa Pilipinas bago natin ayusin ang paghahanda para makaiwas sa malaking pinsala, na mas pinalalala ng climate change? Pakinggan ang pananaw ni Dr. Mahar Lagmay sa unang bahagi ng Episode 15 ng What The F Podcast.

    Climate Change, climate change adaptation, Disaster Preparedness, disaster risk reduction, hazard maps, Project NOAH, typhoon, UP NOAH

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    Categories Earth Files News

    A decade after Ondoy, lessons are still being learned

    By Klaire Ting  |  Sep 25, 2019 11:26 PM

    Ten years to the day, the memories of that disaster are still vivid in many people’s minds.

    Disaster Preparedness, flood, ondoy, women

  • Three environmental disasters and e-book photo collage.jpg
    Categories Earth Files News

    Lessons from 3 disasters (e-book)

    By VERA FILES  |  Jun 18, 2019 10:21 AM

    This e-book looks into three “cold” environmental cases in the Philippines on updates since the disasters.

    Disaster Preparedness

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    Categories Earth Files News

    VIDEO: Biliran after Urduja

    By Jeffrey Jaculbe  |  Dec 28, 2017 4:57 PM

    Retrieval operations in some areas where landslides occurred are still ongoing as 14 people remain missing.

    disaster, Disaster Preparedness, disaster risk reduction

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    Categories Earth Files News PWD Files

    Evacuation centers, relief goods not PWD-inclusive

    By MARIA FEONA IMPERIAL and YVETTE MORALES  |  Sep 28, 2017 12:32 PM

    Some of the PWDs would rather stay with relatives or generous neighbors due to inaccessible shelters

    disaster, Disaster Preparedness, disaster risk reduction, PWD, PWDs

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    Categories Earth Files Editor's Pick News PWD Files

    PWDs left behind in Marikina’s disaster preparedness efforts

    By MARIA FEONA IMPERIAL and YVETTE B. MORALES  |  Sep 27, 2017 4:09 PM

    For a disaster resilience model, Marikina City falls behind the ideal in preparing people with disabilities (PWDs) for disasters.

    Disaster Preparedness, disaster risk reduction, Marikina, PWD, PWDs

  • Categories Earth Files News

    Education and folk beliefs lessen vulnerability to disasters

    By COOPER RESABAL  |  Dec 04, 2016 12:01 PM

    Small groups formed various tableaus portraying a family or local community grappling with social or natural environmental hazards or issues.

    Disaster Preparedness, disaster risk reduction, oscar lizardo

  • Categories Top Stories

    Special schools emphasize disaster preparedness

    Jul 23, 2016 10:00 AM

    By TESSA BARRE, NICOLE AGATHA CRUZ and YVETTE MORALES INSTEAD of chaos that reigns when the alarm bell goes off, students from a school in Pasay City follow a different routine for their disaster drill. First, they form two lines. The person with the clearest vision takes the lead. Those behind him stretch their arms […]

    Disaster Preparedness, PWDs, special schools

  • Two hotel employees are assigned to bring CPAP's Denny Ilagan to "safety"
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    Hotel gets impromptu lessons on how to—and not to—evacuate PWDs during Shake Drill

    Jul 30, 2015 7:42 PM

    Text and photos by YVONNE T. CHUA AT 10:30 a.m., the hotel emergency alarm went off, signaling the start of Thursday’s “Shake Drill” designed to prepare Metro Manilans for a 7.2 magnitude earthquake or the “Big One.” Many of the 30 or so guests meeting at the hotel’s fifth-floor function room quickly stood up and […]

    Disaster Preparedness, earthquake, PWD, shake drill

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