From Disaster Mitigation to Interrupting Risk Traps: the action-learning experience of cLIMA sin Riesgo
The last decades have witnessed a profound change in our understanding of the conditions of risk in urban contexts. However, we still face significant conceptual, methodological and empirical challenges in capturing the vicious cycles of risk accumulation that often render so-called ‘urban risk trap...
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| author | Adriana Allen Teresa Belkow Carlos Escalante Estrada Silvia de los Ríos Marco Kamiya Rita Lambert Liliana Miranda Julia Wesely Linda Zilbert Soto |
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| description | The last decades have witnessed a profound change in our understanding of the conditions of risk in urban contexts. However, we still face significant conceptual, methodological and empirical challenges in capturing the vicious cycles of risk accumulation that often render so-called ‘urban risk traps’ invisible. We define risk traps as the result of the reproduction of everyday risks and frequent small-scale disasters, which have highly localized impacts and disproportionately affect impoverished inhabitants. Based on the action-research project cLIMA without Risk (cLIMA sin riesgo), which was conducted by the authors in the context of two marginalized areas in the centre and periphery of Lima, Peru, this article explores the conditions that produce and reproduce these risk traps and it analyses how and where they materialize, who they affect and with what consequences. The discussion examines how spatial knowledge of urbanization at risk together with a critical evaluation of inhabitants’ and state agencies’ investments in mitigation efforts allows us to move towards a more accurate assessment of the impact of these risk traps over time, which is required for developing transformative strategies to disrupt them. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-27f72713b7c84eb3b1423765c628e7162023-11-02T06:36:25ZengCorporación Gestión de Riesgos y Desastres GRID-ChileRevista de Estudios Latinoamericanos sobre Reducción del Riesgo de Desastres0719-84772017-07-011162810.55467/reder.v1i1.22From Disaster Mitigation to Interrupting Risk Traps: the action-learning experience of cLIMA sin RiesgoAdriana Allen0Teresa Belkow1Carlos Escalante Estrada2Silvia de los Ríos3Marco Kamiya4Rita Lambert5Liliana Miranda6Julia Wesely7Linda Zilbert Soto8The Bartlett Development Planning Unit, University College London, LondresConsultora Independiente, LimaCENCA Instituto de Desarrollo Urbano, LimaCentro de Investigación, Documentación y Asesoría Poblacional (CIDAP), LimaDepartamento de Economía y Finanzas Urbanas en ONU-HABITAT, NairobiThe Bartlett Development Planning Unit, University College London, LondresForo Ciudades para la Vida, LimaThe Bartlett Development Planning Unit, University College London, LondresExperta independiente asociada con la O cina de Prevención y Recuperación de Crisis del Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo, LimaThe last decades have witnessed a profound change in our understanding of the conditions of risk in urban contexts. However, we still face significant conceptual, methodological and empirical challenges in capturing the vicious cycles of risk accumulation that often render so-called ‘urban risk traps’ invisible. We define risk traps as the result of the reproduction of everyday risks and frequent small-scale disasters, which have highly localized impacts and disproportionately affect impoverished inhabitants. Based on the action-research project cLIMA without Risk (cLIMA sin riesgo), which was conducted by the authors in the context of two marginalized areas in the centre and periphery of Lima, Peru, this article explores the conditions that produce and reproduce these risk traps and it analyses how and where they materialize, who they affect and with what consequences. The discussion examines how spatial knowledge of urbanization at risk together with a critical evaluation of inhabitants’ and state agencies’ investments in mitigation efforts allows us to move towards a more accurate assessment of the impact of these risk traps over time, which is required for developing transformative strategies to disrupt them.https://www.revistareder.com/ojs/index.php/reder/article/view/2ciclos de acumulación de riesgo, trampas de riesgo urbano, capacidad de acción, gestión de riesgo de desastres, lima |
| spellingShingle | Adriana Allen Teresa Belkow Carlos Escalante Estrada Silvia de los Ríos Marco Kamiya Rita Lambert Liliana Miranda Julia Wesely Linda Zilbert Soto From Disaster Mitigation to Interrupting Risk Traps: the action-learning experience of cLIMA sin Riesgo Revista de Estudios Latinoamericanos sobre Reducción del Riesgo de Desastres ciclos de acumulación de riesgo, trampas de riesgo urbano, capacidad de acción, gestión de riesgo de desastres, lima |
| title | From Disaster Mitigation to Interrupting Risk Traps: the action-learning experience of cLIMA sin Riesgo |
| title_full | From Disaster Mitigation to Interrupting Risk Traps: the action-learning experience of cLIMA sin Riesgo |
| title_fullStr | From Disaster Mitigation to Interrupting Risk Traps: the action-learning experience of cLIMA sin Riesgo |
| title_full_unstemmed | From Disaster Mitigation to Interrupting Risk Traps: the action-learning experience of cLIMA sin Riesgo |
| title_short | From Disaster Mitigation to Interrupting Risk Traps: the action-learning experience of cLIMA sin Riesgo |
| title_sort | from disaster mitigation to interrupting risk traps the action learning experience of clima sin riesgo |
| topic | ciclos de acumulación de riesgo, trampas de riesgo urbano, capacidad de acción, gestión de riesgo de desastres, lima |
| url | https://www.revistareder.com/ojs/index.php/reder/article/view/2 |
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