EDITORIAL
El esnobismo de la
Gestión de Riesgo y la Adaptación al Cambio Climático: esas conglomeraciones
o conjuntos de bichos
Pablo González
Ernesto
Sábato publicó su famosa novela El Túnel, en 1948. En ella, transmite en el
relato de su personaje principal, Juan Pablo Castel, un pintor que asesinó a
su amante, los pensamientos más profundos que rigieron sus propias
ideologías y conducta. Y es muy pronto en su novela, en el capítulo IV y
sólo la página siete de 65 páginas, cuando Juan Pablo Castel se refiere a
algo que es tan cierto hoy como lo fue hace 64 años atrás cuando Ernesto
Sábato publicó esa novela. Me refiero a la existencia de grupos que por
distintas razones o motivaciones siguen una causa sin verdaderamente
entenderla y, muchas veces, hasta en contradicción con otras causas
superiores que ellos mismos profesan. Full article
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Costa Rica volcano threatens to blow
Costa Rican officials warn
that the country's rumbling Turrialba volcano may imminently erupt. Read
Nicaragua - Ten days of rain take heavy toll
Ten days of heavy rains have
claimed the lives of nine people and affected 1,136 families—or more
than 5,000 people—requiring the government to activate its emergency
response system, according to Guillermo González, executive director of the
National System of Prevention and Mitigation of Disasters (SINAPRED). Read
Nevado del
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INGEOMINAS who had recently
decreased the alert level of Nevado del Ruiz raised it again to ORANGE (eruption
likely within days to weeks). Read
Hurricane Bud
downgraded, dumps rain on Mexico's Pacific Coast
The remnants of the
first hurricane of the 2012 season, Bud, dumped heavy rain along Mexico's
coast early on Saturday but caused little damage before it turned back into
the Pacific. Read
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Inter-American
Plan for Disaster Prevention ad Response and the Coordination of
Humanitarian Assistance Ambassador Gabriel Fuks,
President of Argentine White Helmets Commission speaks on the
preparation of the Inter-American Plan for Disaster Prevention ad
Response and the Coordination of Humanitarian Assistance, and how this
instrument “will constitute, after its approval in Cochabamba, a road
map towards safer and better prepared communities and nations, where
information and technology to cope with disasters is not the patrimony of a
few, who have access to use them with countries in an
emergency…” Read
Elders in Peruvian
Andes help interpret climate changes
Their accumulated experience
gives them an edge on dealing with the challenges posed by climate change
today," Edwin Mansilla, head of the environmental management division
of the Cuzco
regional government, told IPS. Read
U.S - Gulf
coast vulnerable to extreme erosion in category 1 Hurricanes: New model to
help community planners, emergency managers
USGS
scientists used state-of-the-art modeling to determine the probabilities of
erosion, overwash and inundation during direct hurricane landfall for sandy
beaches along the entire U.S. Gulf Coast shoreline. Read
Webinars on
Resilient Cities
A series of four webinars on building disaster resilient cities
began this week, hosted by the International Council for Research and
Innovation in Building and the UN office for disaster risk reduction
(UNISDR).
The topics
are: 1.Enabling
risk reduction through urban planning; 2.How
to encourage multi-stakeholder engagement as a key factor in the planning,
design, construction and operation or maintenance of resilient cities; 3.People’s needs and expectations
in post-disaster reconstruction (in Spanish); and 4.How local governments have used
UNISDR's Ten Essentials for Making Cities Resilient and the Local
Government Self-Assessment Tool to close gaps and define priorities and
institutional commitments to reduce disaster risk at local level. Read
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Management and Adaptation to Climate Change, RISK-MACC, Department of
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