Multi-hazard Risk Configurations

A Search for Common Patterns in Three Latin American Cities During Covid-19

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ID22151380
AuthorsAllan Lavell (0000-0001-5653-0287, Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Costa Rica, corresponding author), Angel Chávez (Group for the Analysis of Development), Cinthya Barros (Group for the Analysis of Development), Gustavo Jimenez (Universidad de Costa Rica), Marina Baquerizo Martinez (University of the Coast), Marina Martinez (University of the Coast), Celene B Milanés (0000-0003-2560-8859, University of the Coast)
Year2022
Volume7
Issue1
Pages66-86
Publication date2022-05-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueUrbanisation (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2455-7471 • E-ISSN: 2456-3714
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/24557471221115257
OpenAlexW4312237404
LanguageEN
References cited8

COVID-19 has seriously affected urban populations worldwide. It comprises a disaster category that accompanies more recurrent or familiar expressions associated with earthquakes, flooding, landslides, subsidence and tsunamis. Despite the differences in these hazard types, the expressions of vulnerability and exposure and their causes are often similar and many of these are based on pre-existing everyday living conditions. The present article provides preliminary evidence and analysis from the social and territorial incidence of COVID-19 to help confirm the now increasingly argued hypothesis that susceptible populations and areas are often the same, independent of the hazard type. It argues for more integral, livelihood and development-informed approaches to disaster risk management, based primarily on vulnerability and exposure reduction and control

Biology · Computer security · Environmental planning · Geography · Hazard · Human settlement · Livelihood · Computer Science · COVID-19 epidemiological studies · COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts · Disaster Management and Resilience · Medicine · Psychology · Ecology

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