Fernando Aragón-Durand: From vulnerability to resilience : discourses, policy values and responses

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Fernando Aragón-Durand, an outside consultant at the Centro Mario Molina in Mexico spoke at the Joint Public Advisory Committee's Resilient Communities in North America workshop in New Orleans on July 9, 2012. More info at http://www.cec.org/Council2012

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JPAC Workshop“Resilient Communities in North America”

New Orleans, Louisiana9-10 July, 2012

From vulnerability to resilience : discourses, policy values and responses

Fernando Aragón-Durand, PhD.

faragon@centromariomolina.org

What could happen if we don t act

to create more resilientcommunities?

Resilient communities

Enhancing adaptive capacities

Vulnerable communities

Resilient communities

Enhancing adaptive capacities

Vulnerable communities to floods

Floods context

How are communities framed in thecontext of floods?

To what extent discourses framepolicy responses?

What are the practical implications ofthat when building resilientcommunities?