Risk-Mapping and Local Capacities
Lessons from Mexico and Central America
This working paper maps the range of natural hazards and other risks to which people in Mexico and Central America are exposed and relates these to the complex social, economic, political and cultural factors that make some social sectors more critically vulnerable than others in emergencies. It also identifies the wide range of local capacities - organisational, social, governmental, and non-governmental - that can contribute to developing effective disaster-prevention and mitigation programmes, as well as emergency rehabilitation and reconstruction programmes.
Published: 2000
Pages: 160
eBook: 9780855988463
Paperback: 9780855984205
| Acknowledgements | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Abbreviations and acronyms | |||
| Preface | |||
| 1. Introduction | |||
| Background | |||
| Methodology | |||
| Physical characteristics of the region | |||
| Outline of the contents | |||
| 2. Assessment of treats and risks | |||
| Identification and analysis of threats | |||
| A typology of natural threats | |||
| Risk of threats caused by human agency | |||
| Evaluation and levels of risks | |||
| 3. Assessment of vulnerability | |||
| Technical focus on vulnerability | |||
| Political focus on vulnerability | |||
| Social focus on vulnerability | |||
| A regional view of social vulnerability | |||
| A country-by-country view of social vulnerability | |||
| 4. Assessment of local capacity | |||
| The institutional framework | |||
| Disasters and civil society | |||
| Relevant actors and initiatives in the region | |||
| 5. Progress and needs in disaster management | |||
| Prevention and mitigation | |||
| Preparedness | |||
| Information and training | |||
| 6. Lessons and challenges | |||
| How to work in disasters? | |||
| Emergencies versus development | |||
| Resources and finance | |||
| Conclusions | |||
| References and background reading | |||
| Index | |||
| Tables | |||
| Maps |
Monica Trujillo
Monica Trujillo works for Oxfam GB in Central America as an Emergencies Support Person with special responsibility for gender and representation.
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