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La visión economicista en las políticas públicas para reducir desastres
(Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales., 2018)
Disaster risk reduction education: tensions and connections with sustainable development goals
(MDPI, 2021)
In the last decades, environmental risks and threats have increased human exposure to
natural hazards, often affecting the quality of life, especially for vulnerable groups. This article
explores the tensions and connections ...
“What is a Sociologist Doing Here?” An Unconventional People-Centered Approach to Improve Warning Implementation in the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction
(2020-04-01)
The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030 recommends several actions for early warning systems (EWSs). However, there is a lack of information about their means of implementation. This article used ...
(In)visibilities About the Vulnerabilities of People with Visual Impairments to Disasters and Climate Change: A Case Study in Cuiabá, Brazil
(2022-02-01)
People with visual impairments (PwVI) represent a heterogeneous social group who often experience significant disabling barriers in exercising their rights throughout their life course. Understanding dimensions of vulnerability ...
Comparative analysis of tsunami recovery strategies in small communities in Japan and Chile
(Geosciences (Switzerland), 2020)
Institutional drivers of adaptation in local government decision-making: evidence from Chile
(Springer, 2017)
We study how the local institutional context shapes local government decisions about
responses to perceived threats of natural disasters and climatic change. We draw on institutional
theories and field observations to ...
Community resilience to power outages after disaster: A case study of the 2010 Chile earthquake and tsunami
(Elsevier Ltd, 2019)
This paper examines the short and long-term societal impact of prolonged power outages caused by a disaster, and the way of coping that the community develops. Community resilience is used as a conceptual framework to ...
Giving voice to the voiceless: connecting graduate students with high school students by incubating DRR plans through participatory mapping
(2022-01-01)
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to encourage graduate students to facilitate a participatory mapping activity with high school students, to have their voices heard in the disaster risk reduction (DRR) agenda. ...