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Social Aspects of Risk and Disaster and Prospective Risk Management. Allan Lavell Ph.D. International Advisor. SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF RISK. Disaster as the result of actualized risk. Disaster Risk: Hazard, Exposure and Vulnerability
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Social Aspects of Risk and Disaster and Prospective Risk Management Allan Lavell Ph.D. International Advisor
SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF RISK • Disaster as the result of actualized risk. • Disaster Risk: Hazard, Exposure and Vulnerability • Disaster Risk as the result of a process of Social Construction: Social processes that transform physical events in risk. • Risk Reduction/Risk Management must operate on the processes that create or generate hazards, exposure and vulnerability
DISASTER RISK MANAGEMENT • Social Process with the objective of reducing or controlling the development of Disaster Risk in society • Considers all moments of the risk continuum, from pre impact through immediate post impact to recovery phases. • Two pillars: Corrective and Prospective Risk Management
CORRECTIVE MANAGEMENT • Reduction or mitigation of existing risk factors. • Traditional view of Risk Management and essentially been developed in conservative fashion: reduce disaster risk; unchanged chronic risk • Corrective-progressive management introduces development goals in risk reduction, searching for improved welfare and incomes.
PROSPECTIVE MANAGEMENT • Avoidance of future risk and disaster and reduction of development costs of future loss and damage • Need to build climate change variables into scenarios of loss and damage. • Prevention of risk in infrastructure, livelihoods and economic enterprise in general. • Component of normal development planning and promotion and in disaster recovery and reconstruction • Public and private investment decisions, land use planning, resilience and resistance in livelihoods, environmental management.
Allan LavellPh.D. International Advisor Proyecto “Apoyo a la Prevención de Desastres en la Comunidad Andina – CAN” www.comunidadandina.org/predecan predecan@comunidadandina.org