Comments on: Mexico’s vulnerability to hurricane risk http://www.climaticoanalysis.org/post/mexicos-vulnerability-to-hurricane-risk/ Independent analysis of climate policy Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:01:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Krishna Krishnamurthy http://www.climaticoanalysis.org/post/mexicos-vulnerability-to-hurricane-risk/#comment-12155 Krishna Krishnamurthy Thu, 11 Feb 2010 12:14:27 +0000 http://www.climaticoanalysis.org/?p=4713#comment-12155 I have not done any analyses of the housing or water sectors (I have mostly focused on institutions and community participation/capacity building) but these are certainly very interesting. Do you have any literature or examples of vulnerability assessments for these sectors in your areas of expertise? It would be great to share some insights. I have not done any analyses of the housing or water sectors (I have mostly focused on institutions and community participation/capacity building) but these are certainly very interesting.

Do you have any literature or examples of vulnerability assessments for these sectors in your areas of expertise? It would be great to share some insights.

]]> By: Shashanka Saadi http://www.climaticoanalysis.org/post/mexicos-vulnerability-to-hurricane-risk/#comment-12154 Shashanka Saadi Thu, 11 Feb 2010 11:42:00 +0000 http://www.climaticoanalysis.org/?p=4713#comment-12154 have you done any vulnerabiltiy analysi of the housing and WATSAN sectors? these are the two critical sectors where resilience building by integrating DRR will also help to face the challenges of CC. have you done any vulnerabiltiy analysi of the housing and WATSAN sectors?

these are the two critical sectors where resilience building by integrating DRR will also help to face the challenges of CC.

]]> By: Krishna Krishnamurthy http://www.climaticoanalysis.org/post/mexicos-vulnerability-to-hurricane-risk/#comment-12031 Krishna Krishnamurthy Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:51:30 +0000 http://www.climaticoanalysis.org/?p=4713#comment-12031 The shift toward risk reduction has an epistemological foundation in the political ecology literature (a great example is Wisner et al., 2008). This trend in the literature suggests that disasters occur due to the socioeconomic or political conditions that create social vulnerability. As such, by dealing with these conditions, it is possible to reduce risk. The UN system is the first to propose a comprehensive policy approach to DRR (disaster risk reduction). Following the failure of the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (IDNDR), governments and intergovernmental donors recognised the weakness of post-disaster recovery and the need to move toward risk reduction. As a result, the UNISDR (International Strategy for Disaster Reduction) emerged, and funding has come from different bodies (e.g. the World Bank's Global Facility for Disaster Recovery and Reduction). In part, these trends have been promoted by the insurance sector, which is less willing to insure losses from events in disaster-prone areas. Similarly, the international community has responded to this move. NGO involvement is only recent--while they have traditionally focused on humanitarian relief, they are increasingly perceiving the benefits of DRR. The shift toward risk reduction has an epistemological foundation in the political ecology literature (a great example is Wisner et al., 2008). This trend in the literature suggests that disasters occur due to the socioeconomic or political conditions that create social vulnerability. As such, by dealing with these conditions, it is possible to reduce risk.

The UN system is the first to propose a comprehensive policy approach to DRR (disaster risk reduction). Following the failure of the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (IDNDR), governments and intergovernmental donors recognised the weakness of post-disaster recovery and the need to move toward risk reduction. As a result, the UNISDR (International Strategy for Disaster Reduction) emerged, and funding has come from different bodies (e.g. the World Bank’s Global Facility for Disaster Recovery and Reduction).

In part, these trends have been promoted by the insurance sector, which is less willing to insure losses from events in disaster-prone areas. Similarly, the international community has responded to this move. NGO involvement is only recent–while they have traditionally focused on humanitarian relief, they are increasingly perceiving the benefits of DRR.

]]> By: Ruth Brandt http://www.climaticoanalysis.org/post/mexicos-vulnerability-to-hurricane-risk/#comment-11995 Ruth Brandt Sun, 07 Feb 2010 20:28:03 +0000 http://www.climaticoanalysis.org/?p=4713#comment-11995 Is the drive toward risk reduction coming from within the government or from an outside source, such as NGOs? Or is it only because of the Hyogo Framework for Action that this is happening? Is the drive toward risk reduction coming from within the government or from an outside source, such as NGOs? Or is it only because of the Hyogo Framework for Action that this is happening?

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