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Allan Lavell Ph.D.International Assessor
Social Aspects of Risk and Disaster and Prospective
Risk Management
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 Lavell Ph.D.International Assessor
Proyecto “Apoyo a la Prevención de Desastres en la Comunidad Andina – CAN”
www.comunidadandina.org/predecan
