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- Permanent Link:
- http://dpanther.fiu.edu/dpService/dpPurlService/purl/FI13102400/00001
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- Summary:
- This document highlights how compensatory and prospective risk management concepts have been applied to disaster risk management (DRM) and sustainable development efforts throughout the Americas. USAID/OFDA has shifted the discussion about risk and disaster away from disaster management, which emphasizes responding to disasters after they happen, towards the concept of risk management, which involves addressing risks before disaster occurs. Currently it is pushing for further reconceptualization. While risk management has meant an emphasis on 'corrective' or 'compensatory' action, actions designed to deal with existing vulnerabilities and identified hazards, today it is important that the DRM community take on a 'prospective' posture. A 'prospective' approach to risk management involves understanding how the development process itself contributes to risk production, and reorienting development so that risk production is minimized. The document analyzes different aspects of development and how they intersect with risk generation. Sustainable development involves taking into account how these variables (the environment, the economy, and society) interact with one another, each having a particular relationship to development, and thus a particular relationship to risk. There is a dynamic relationship between development, the environment, and disasters. Unsound development practices that cause environmental degradation generate increased disaster risks. Disasters, in turn, negatively impact development processes and poverty reduction efforts. A sound environmental management plan is therefore a necessary component of development planning and DRM. A second concern is the artificial and problematic separation between development planning and DRM, and the dire consequences that results for both. Economic investments must take disaster risks into account if they are to contribute to sustainable development. Risk generation is also a social phenomenon. Therefore, to ensure effective DRM and sustainable development, the proper governance mechanisms must exist to ensure clear lines of accountability and transparency exist around the crafting, implementing, and enforcing of these policies, as well as the democratic participation of civil society and integration of the private sector in these processes. ( English )
- Scope and Content:
- Presentation p. 9; Introduction p. 10; The Risk Management Environment p. 11; Areas and Components p. 11; Risk Analysis p. 11; Risk Reduction p. 12; Adverse Event Management p. 13; Recovery p. 14; Risk Management and Development p. 15; Interdisciplinary Vision p. 18; The Great Challenges of Population Expansion from a Perspective of Risk Management p. 19; References p. 20 ( English )
- Subject:
- Disaster Risk Management ( English )
- Subject:
- Disaster Risk Reduction ( English )
- General Note:
- Chapter 1 from Time to pass the baton, Disaster Risk Reduction from the perspective of Environmental Management, Land Use Management, Finance and Public Investment
published by U.S. Agency for International Development, English Version.
- Preferred Citation:
- Sarmiento, Juan Pablo. (2008). The challenge of risk management as a multi-sector and participative intervention strategy at the service of development. In, Time to Pass the Baton, Disaster Risk Reduction from the Perspective of Environmental Management, Land Use Management, Finance and Public Investment, 5–20. U.S. Agency for International Development, Disaster Risk Reduction Program, Florida International University.
Record Information
- Source Institution:
- Florida International University
- Rights Management:
- Refer to main document/publisher for use rights.
- Resource Identifier:
- FI13102400
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