| The paper clarifies the causes induced by Tropical Storm Ondoy and Typhoon Pepeng that worsened conditions for people by focusing on social background and disaster response. The angle and method of the analysis were based on an analysis of the experiences of the victims of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 that was conducted by a research team from the National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention. Through this analysis and field research、an outline on how harm to humans was exacerbated during and after Ondoy and Pepeng、the kinds of disaster response systems present in the Philippines、and how the disaster response systems worked during and after the storms was constructed. |