Multi-hazard Risk Configurations: A Search for Common Patterns in Three Latin American Cities During COVID-19

Jiménez Barboza, Gustavo Adolfo; Lavell, Allan; Chávez, Angel; Barros Salas, Cinthya; Martínez González, Marina B.; Milanés, Celene Batista

Multi-hazard Risk Configurations: A Search for Common Patterns in Three Latin American Cities During COVID-19

Fecha

2022

Tipo

artículo original

Autores

Jiménez Barboza, Gustavo Adolfo

Lavell, Allan

Chávez, Angel

Barros Salas, Cinthya

Martínez González, Marina B.

Milanés, Celene Batista

Editor

SAGE Publications

Resumen

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.