Mapa 4. Amenaza sísmica para un periodo de retorno de 475 años (Periodo estructural 0.5 s) (Valor... more Mapa 4. Amenaza sísmica para un periodo de retorno de 475 años (Periodo estructural 0.5 s) (Valores calculados por Ingeniar: Risk Intelligence) Aceleración espectral Amenaza sísmica para un periodo de retorno de 475 años (Periodo estructural 0.5 s) (Valores calculados por Ingeniar: Risk Intelligence) Aceleración espectral 0 Aceleración espectral (cm/s 2) Reducir el riesgo el riesgo nuestra mejor opción
Evaluating seismic risk from a holistic perspective to improve resilience: the united nations evaluation at global level
Disaster risk is not only associated with the occurrence of intense hazard events but also with t... more Disaster risk is not only associated with the occurrence of intense hazard events but also with the vulnerability conditions that facilitate disasters when such events occur. Vulnerability is closely linked to social processes and governance weaknesses in disaster-prone areas, and is usually related to a set of fragilities, susceptibilities, and issues regarding the lack of resilience of the exposed human settlements. The holistic risk assessment aims to reflect risk from a comprehensive perspective by using, in one hand, the physical risk or potential physical damage directly linked to the occurrence of hazard events and, on the other hand by capturing how underlying risk drivers or amplifiers –social, economic, environmental issues, non-hazard dependent elements, worsen the current existing physical risk conditions in terms of lack of capacity to anticipate or resist, or to respond and recover from adverse impacts. This article presents the results of the holistic evaluation of risk as well as of the implications of risk for development obtained at global level in the framework of the UN Atlas-GAR: Unveiling Disaster Risk, using the probabilistic physical risk results, obtained from the multi-hazard Global Risk Assessment 2015, socioeconomic indicators and macroeconomic flow variables available in worldwide databases for more than 200 countries and territories. These results are useful to identify risk drivers that are associated not only to the physical vulnerability of countries’ assets but also to social, economic and financial issues that should be examined and tackled in a comprehensive way.Postprint (published version
Evaluación del Índice de Vulnerabilidad Prevalente de Brasil y resultados comparativos para los países de América Latina y el Caribe
This book aims to promote the debate in Brazil and across the Americas about disaster vulnerabili... more This book aims to promote the debate in Brazil and across the Americas about disaster vulnerability reduction, analyzing its social, economic, environmental, political, technical and institutional dimensions. In this region of the world, with its histories, social organization, politics and distribution of social power, what are the root causes and dynamic pressures of vulnerability? What are the types of vulnerability? How and to what extent, do vulnerabilities intertwine in the phases of anticipate, cope with and recover from harm? How can various actors work to reduce vulnerability? What are the barriers and bridges to do it? Which experiences reveal practices of capacity building for vulnerability reduction? What are the barriers and bridges to capacity building? How best can local, traditional and vernacular knowledge of specific places be combined with outside specialist knowledge in order to reduce disasters? ? Our proposal aims to go beyond speeches, descriptions and detaile...
This book aims to promote the debate in Brazil and across the Americas about disaster vulnerabili... more This book aims to promote the debate in Brazil and across the Americas about disaster vulnerability reduction, analyzing its social, economic, environmental, political, technical and institutional dimensions. In this region of the world, with its histories, social organization, politics and distribution of social power, what are the root causes and dynamic pressures of vulnerability? What are the types of vulnerability? How and to what extent, do vulnerabilities intertwine in the phases of anticipate, cope with and recover from harm? How can various actors work to reduce vulnerability? What are the barriers and bridges to do it? Which experiences reveal practices of capacity building for vulnerability reduction? What are the barriers and bridges to capacity building? How best can local, traditional and vernacular knowledge of specific places be combined with outside specialist knowledge in order to reduce disasters? ? Our proposal aims to go beyond speeches, descriptions and detaile...
Disaster risk is not only associated with the occurrence of intense hazard events but also with t... more Disaster risk is not only associated with the occurrence of intense hazard events but also with the vulnerability conditions that facilitate disasters when such events occur. Vulnerability is closely linked to social processes and governance weaknesses in disaster-prone areas, and is usually related to a set of fragilities, susceptibilities, and issues regarding the lack of resilience of the exposed human settlements. The holistic risk assessment aims to reflect risk from a comprehensive perspective by using, in one hand, the physical risk or potential physical damage directly linked to the occurrence of hazard events and, on the other hand by capturing how underlying risk drivers or amplifiers-social, economic, environmental issues, non-hazard dependent elements, worsen the current existing physical risk conditions in terms of lack of capacity to anticipate or resist, or to respond and recover from adverse impacts. This article presents the results of the holistic evaluation of risk as well as of the implications of risk for development obtained at global level in the framework of the UN Atlas-GAR: Unveiling Disaster Risk, using the probabilistic physical risk results, obtained from the multi-hazard Global Risk Assessment 2015, socioeconomic indicators and macroeconomic flow variables available in worldwide databases for more than 200 countries and territories. These results are useful to identify risk drivers that are associated not only to the physical vulnerability of countries' assets but also to social, economic and financial issues that should be examined and tackled in a comprehensive way.
Evaluación del índice de déficit por desastres de Brasil y resultados comparativos para los países de América Latina y el Caribe
This book aims to promote the debate in Brazil and across the Americas about disaster vulnerabili... more This book aims to promote the debate in Brazil and across the Americas about disaster vulnerability reduction, analyzing its social, economic, environmental, political, technical and institutional dimensions. In this region of the world, with its histories, social organization, politics and distribution of social power, what are the root causes and dynamic pressures of vulnerability? What are the types of vulnerability? How and to what extent, do vulnerabilities intertwine in the phases of anticipate, cope with and recover from harm? How can various actors work to reduce vulnerability? What are the barriers and bridges to do it? Which experiences reveal practices of capacity building for vulnerability reduction? What are the barriers and bridges to capacity building? How best can local, traditional and vernacular knowledge of specific places be combined with outside specialist knowledge in order to reduce disasters? ? Our proposal aims to go beyond speeches, descriptions and detaile...
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