El Riesgo y los Desastres: La Universidad y el Imperativo de la Educacin Transversalizada, Especiali

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Understanding and Managing Risk Associated
with Natural Hazards An Integrated Scientific
Approach in Latin America and the
Caribbean ICSU Regional Consultation
Meeting 10th to 11th March, 2009, Mexico D.F.
Allan Lavell General Secretariate, FLACSO and
LA RED
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Disaster Risk and Disaster1. Definition
2. Importance
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• Approaches
• Multi and Interdisciplinary
• On Risk and then Disaster.
• Participatory and Stakeholder Involvement
• Support both Corrective and Prospective
  Management and Intervention

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• OBJECTIVES
• Promote multidisciplinary research involving
  natural, social and applied sciences that
  advances decision making and risk reduction
  interventions
• More closely relate the scientific with the
  policy, civil society and private sector
  communities
• Link Climate Change Adaptation and the Disaster
  Risk Management Problematics
• Promote and develop methodological advances in
  natural and social science based mulidisciplinary
  research
• Support the development of more holistic,
  integral institutional frameworks for promoting
  interdisciplinary research and training.

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Areas of Research

• Uncharted, unmapped, not understood hazard
  processes and patterns.
• Understanding the social construction of risk and
  its social and territorial distribution
  socio-natural hazards, exposure and vulnerabilty
• Evaluating and analyzing disaster risk,
  objectively and subjectively
• Decision making processes and risk reduction
  efforts.
• Post mortem, forensic studies of disaster.

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First Stage Priorities

• Risk analysis metholologies for small and medium
  towns and cities
• Risk reduction for communities living on slopes
• Risk modelling and data platforms
• Risk index and indicator schemes
• Decision making processes at the local, regional
  and national levels
• Options for climate change adaptation based on
  local level risk management schemes
• Post mortem , forensic studies
• Training for integrated research.