Disaster Management and Risk Reduction: Philippine Laws

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Across
  1. 2. One of the main environmental threats reduced under the Philippine Clean Air Act.
  2. 3. The type of substance managed under the Toxic Substances and Hazardous Wastes Control Act (RA 6969).
  3. 5. Refers to materials like plastics and food scraps managed under the Ecological Solid Waste Management Act.
  4. 8. Efforts to safeguard vulnerable groups, particularly children, in emergency situations.
  5. 10. The process of safely moving people away from a hazardous area during a disaster.
  6. 12. Acronym for the Office of Civil Defense, which coordinates national disaster risk management.
  7. 13. The danger level that communities and infrastructure face in disaster-prone areas.
  8. 14. Type of infrastructure put in place for managing and communicating disaster warnings.
  9. 16. Exercises conducted to prepare for specific types of disasters, such as earthquakes, as mandated by NDRRMC.
  10. 17. Key focus of the Children’s Emergency Relief and Protection Act (RA 10821) in times of disaster.
  11. 18. Legal process ensuring tobacco products are regulated under RA 9211.
  12. 19. The process of ensuring all agencies work together effectively during disasters.
  13. 20. Essential for disseminating disaster alerts and warnings, especially emphasized in OCD memos.
Down
  1. 1. Ability of communities to recover and adapt to disaster impacts, highlighted in RA 10121.
  2. 4. Structures designed to protect people during natural disasters, guided by standards in NDRRMC Memo No. 100 s. 2017.
  3. 6. The process of being ready for an emergency, emphasized in NDRRMC policies.
  4. 7. Local governing bodies or groups responsible for DRRM at the community level, as institutionalized by the DILG Memo 2018-49.
  5. 9. A harmful substance controlled under the Tobacco Regulation Act (RA 9211).
  6. 11. Action taken to preserve biodiversity through the National Integrated Protected Areas System.
  7. 15. The action of reducing or eliminating risks, emphasized in various disaster management policies.
  8. 18. Focus of the Wildlife Resources Conservation and Protection Act in preserving endangered species.