Juan-Pablo Sarmiento
Biographic Data
| ID | 8904308 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Juan-Pablo Sarmiento |
| GIVEN NAMES | Juan-Pablo |
| FAMILY NAME | Sarmiento |
| SIGNATURE | SARMIENTO J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Florida International University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8192-902X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
An Amazonianist and his history
Assessing Human Resources Development in Volcano Observatories Using the Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice Survey
The purpose of this study was to assess the role played by the International Training Course, given by the Center for the Study of Active Volcanoes (CSAV) at the University of Hawai’i at Hilo, in the development of human resources for volcano observatory staff around the world. The study design included a literature review, interviews with representatives from 10 national volcano observatories, and electronic surveys designed and conducted by Flo…
Risk-based benefit-cost analysis of ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction with considerations of co-benefits, equity, and sustainability
Ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction (Eco-DRR) measures are gaining attention as creative solutions to reduce community vulnerability against risks while providing multiple co-benefits. We evaluate an Eco-DRR, an afforestation effort, Boca de Sapo (hereafter, BdS), in a marginalized community in peri-urban Lima where we perform household surveys and key informant interviews. To estimate the economic viability, we design a benefit-cost analysis…
From Disaster Risk Construction to Disaster Risk Reduction
This paper explores how the existing urban land-use regulatory framework and its associated planning practices in Chile have contributed to disaster risk construction in urban areas. It uses Actor Network Theory as an analytical framework, and in-depth interviews and focus groups to analyse the existing urban land-use regulatory framework and its innovation process. Drawing on the knowledges and perception of practitioners, and the revision of a …
Graduate certificate in local development planning, land use management and disaster risk management
Purpose This study aims to assess knowledge retention of the graduates of the online graduate certificate on local development planning, land use management and disaster risk management (PDLOTGR, the abbreviation of the certificate's Spanish title). The certificate was offered to practitioners and faculty members of Latin American countries since 2016. Design/methodology/approach The authors reviewed the knowledge, attitude and practice (KAP) met…
From Disaster Risk Reduction to Policy Studies
Major conceptual and empirical advances over the past three decades have clarified how natural hazard events interact with community and human exposures and vulnerabilities to create risks that then become emergencies, disasters, or in the worst combinations, catastrophes. However, corresponding disaster risk reduction (DRR) knowledge and technology exist to significantly lessen the impacts of hazard events, but in many countries, including the U…
Assessing disaster capitalism in post-disaster processes in Chile
Purpose This paper examines disaster capitalism in Chile, that is, the relationships between disasters and neoliberalism. It looks at two post-disaster dimensions: disasters as windows of opportunity to introduce political reforms and disasters as occasions for the corporate class to capitalize on such disasters. Design/methodology/approach Two indices, disaster capitalism (DC) and post-disaster private involvement (PDPI), are proposed for cross-…
A neglected issue
Purpose This paper introduces the state of informal settlements in Latin America and the Caribbean, and it explores potential relationships between informal settlements and national policies on urban development and disaster risk reduction, especially on how risk governance and disaster resilience are conceived and practiced by governments. Design/methodology/approach 17 Habitat III National Reports issued during the preparatory process toward th…
An evidence-based urban DRR strategy for informal settlements
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze the evidence-based research strategy (EBRS) used to evaluate eight projects that applied the neighborhood approach for disaster risk reduction (NA-DRR) in informal urban settlements in Colombia, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica and Peru, between 2012 and 2017. Design/methodology/approach The study covers the first five of the seven EBRS stages: first, identify relevant interventions; second, prep…
Una mirada desde la gobernanza del riesgo y la resiliencia urbana en América Latina y el Caribe
El trabajo busca ofrecer una vista general, actualizada, pero también crítica de los asentamientos informales en América Latina y el Caribe, e identificar y explorar posibles tendencias entre los diferentes países con respecto a la gobernanza y resiliencia urbana para la reducción del riesgo de desastre en estos asentamientos. Se analizaron datos entregados por 17 países en sus reportes nacionales elaborados durante el proceso preparatorio hacia …
What is the post-2015 development agenda? A look from the underlying disaster risk drivers
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the current and projected impacts of the three post-2015 development agendas on the underlying disaster risk drivers (UDRD): the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, the Sustainable Development Goals, and the Paris COP21 Agreement. Design/methodology/approach The methodology is based on an ontological process, understood as an exhaustive analysis of the properties and relationships of an en…
Post-project review in urban disaster risk reduction
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide an analysis of a post-project review (PPR) method designed to verify the accomplishments of urban disaster risk reduction-neighborhood approach (DRR-NA) projects after at least one year of project closeout. The PPR revisited the essential processes identified during project implementation and analyzed the sustainability of project gains. Design/methodology/approach The first section focuses on a lit…
Disaster risk construction in the progressive consolidation of informal settlements
Sistematización in urban disaster risk reduction
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide an analysis of sistematización’s use as a research tool in the operationalization of a “neighborhood approach” to the implementation of disaster risk reduction (DRR) in informal urban settlements. Design/methodology/approach – The first section highlights sistematización’s historical origins in Latin America in the fields of popular adult education, social work, and rural development. The second e…
Establishing public accountability, speaking truth to power and inducing political will for disaster risk reduction
The problem is that disaster risk reduction (DRR) is still more a zone of political darkness than of light. Therefore, the purpose of our contribution to this theme issue is to illuminate at least some of that zone of political darkness and to suggest a more proactive, but for many career professionals a personally problematic, way forward for DRR. The career problematic derives from the fact that the way forward would involve moving from applaud…
An Amazonianist and his history
Risk-based benefit-cost analysis of ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction with considerations of co-benefits, equity, and sustainability
Ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction (Eco-DRR) measures are gaining attention as creative solutions to reduce community vulnerability against risks while providing multiple co-benefits. We evaluate an Eco-DRR, an afforestation effort, Boca de Sapo (hereafter, BdS), in a marginalized community in peri-urban Lima where we perform household surveys and key informant interviews. To estimate the economic viability, we design a benefit-cost analysis…
Establishing public accountability, speaking truth to power and inducing political will for disaster risk reduction
The problem is that disaster risk reduction (DRR) is still more a zone of political darkness than of light. Therefore, the purpose of our contribution to this theme issue is to illuminate at least some of that zone of political darkness and to suggest a more proactive, but for many career professionals a personally problematic, way forward for DRR. The career problematic derives from the fact that the way forward would involve moving from applaud…
Establishing public accountability, speaking truth to power and inducing political will for disaster risk reduction
The problem is that disaster risk reduction (DRR) is still more a zone of political darkness than of light. Therefore, the purpose of our contribution to this theme issue is to illuminate at least some of that zone of political darkness and to suggest a more proactive, but for many career professionals a personally problematic, way forward for DRR. The career problematic derives from the fact that the way forward would involve moving from applaud…
Disaster risk construction in the progressive consolidation of informal settlements
Sistematización in urban disaster risk reduction
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide an analysis of sistematización’s use as a research tool in the operationalization of a “neighborhood approach” to the implementation of disaster risk reduction (DRR) in informal urban settlements. Design/methodology/approach – The first section highlights sistematización’s historical origins in Latin America in the fields of popular adult education, social work, and rural development. The second e…
Post-project review in urban disaster risk reduction
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide an analysis of a post-project review (PPR) method designed to verify the accomplishments of urban disaster risk reduction-neighborhood approach (DRR-NA) projects after at least one year of project closeout. The PPR revisited the essential processes identified during project implementation and analyzed the sustainability of project gains. Design/methodology/approach The first section focuses on a lit…
Una mirada desde la gobernanza del riesgo y la resiliencia urbana en América Latina y el Caribe
El trabajo busca ofrecer una vista general, actualizada, pero también crítica de los asentamientos informales en América Latina y el Caribe, e identificar y explorar posibles tendencias entre los diferentes países con respecto a la gobernanza y resiliencia urbana para la reducción del riesgo de desastre en estos asentamientos. Se analizaron datos entregados por 17 países en sus reportes nacionales elaborados durante el proceso preparatorio hacia …
What is the post-2015 development agenda? A look from the underlying disaster risk drivers
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the current and projected impacts of the three post-2015 development agendas on the underlying disaster risk drivers (UDRD): the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, the Sustainable Development Goals, and the Paris COP21 Agreement. Design/methodology/approach The methodology is based on an ontological process, understood as an exhaustive analysis of the properties and relationships of an en…
An evidence-based urban DRR strategy for informal settlements
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze the evidence-based research strategy (EBRS) used to evaluate eight projects that applied the neighborhood approach for disaster risk reduction (NA-DRR) in informal urban settlements in Colombia, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica and Peru, between 2012 and 2017. Design/methodology/approach The study covers the first five of the seven EBRS stages: first, identify relevant interventions; second, prep…
From Disaster Risk Reduction to Policy Studies
Major conceptual and empirical advances over the past three decades have clarified how natural hazard events interact with community and human exposures and vulnerabilities to create risks that then become emergencies, disasters, or in the worst combinations, catastrophes. However, corresponding disaster risk reduction (DRR) knowledge and technology exist to significantly lessen the impacts of hazard events, but in many countries, including the U…
Assessing disaster capitalism in post-disaster processes in Chile
Purpose This paper examines disaster capitalism in Chile, that is, the relationships between disasters and neoliberalism. It looks at two post-disaster dimensions: disasters as windows of opportunity to introduce political reforms and disasters as occasions for the corporate class to capitalize on such disasters. Design/methodology/approach Two indices, disaster capitalism (DC) and post-disaster private involvement (PDPI), are proposed for cross-…
A neglected issue
Purpose This paper introduces the state of informal settlements in Latin America and the Caribbean, and it explores potential relationships between informal settlements and national policies on urban development and disaster risk reduction, especially on how risk governance and disaster resilience are conceived and practiced by governments. Design/methodology/approach 17 Habitat III National Reports issued during the preparatory process toward th…
From Disaster Risk Construction to Disaster Risk Reduction
This paper explores how the existing urban land-use regulatory framework and its associated planning practices in Chile have contributed to disaster risk construction in urban areas. It uses Actor Network Theory as an analytical framework, and in-depth interviews and focus groups to analyse the existing urban land-use regulatory framework and its innovation process. Drawing on the knowledges and perception of practitioners, and the revision of a …
Graduate certificate in local development planning, land use management and disaster risk management
Purpose This study aims to assess knowledge retention of the graduates of the online graduate certificate on local development planning, land use management and disaster risk management (PDLOTGR, the abbreviation of the certificate's Spanish title). The certificate was offered to practitioners and faculty members of Latin American countries since 2016. Design/methodology/approach The authors reviewed the knowledge, attitude and practice (KAP) met…
Assessing Human Resources Development in Volcano Observatories Using the Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice Survey
The purpose of this study was to assess the role played by the International Training Course, given by the Center for the Study of Active Volcanoes (CSAV) at the University of Hawai’i at Hilo, in the development of human resources for volcano observatory staff around the world. The study design included a literature review, interviews with representatives from 10 national volcano observatories, and electronic surveys designed and conducted by Flo…
Risk-based benefit-cost analysis of ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction with considerations of co-benefits, equity, and sustainability
Ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction (Eco-DRR) measures are gaining attention as creative solutions to reduce community vulnerability against risks while providing multiple co-benefits. We evaluate an Eco-DRR, an afforestation effort, Boca de Sapo (hereafter, BdS), in a marginalized community in peri-urban Lima where we perform household surveys and key informant interviews. To estimate the economic viability, we design a benefit-cost analysis…
An Amazonianist and his history
Disaster Management and Resilience (10 works) · Geography (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Business (9 works) · Disaster risk reduction (9 works) · Economics (7 works) · Environmental planning (7 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Environmental resource management (5 works) · Human settlement (4 works)