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Reporte del Taller para la Evaluación Participativa del Riesgo Sísmico y la Resiliencia en San José, Costa Rica (Translated title: Participatory assessment of seismic risk and resilience in Costa Rica)

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  • معلومة اضافية
    • Publisher Information:
      GEM Foundation
    • نبذة مختصرة :
      Costa Rica is located along the Pacific Ring of Fire. The country is divided into seven provinces: San José, Alajuela, Cartago, Heredia, Guanacaste, Puntarenas y Limón. In the framework of the Assessing and Mitigating Earthquake Risk in the Caribbean and Central America (CCARA) project, and jointly with the municipality of San Jose and the National Commission of Emergencies (CNE) of Costa Rica, we undertook a participatory assessment of seismic risk and resilience-based using the Resilience Performance Scorecard (RPS) methodology with representatives of the Provinces of San Jose and Guanacaste. The RPS is a self-evaluation methodology to empower the community to assess resilience parameters based on primary source information. This methodology consisted on 39 questions distributed in six dimensions: Legal and Institutional Arrangements; Social Capacity; Critical Services and Public Infrastructure Resilience; Emergency Preparedness, Response and Recovery; Planning, Regulation and Mainstreaming Risk Mitigation and Awareness and Advocacy. The participants have divided two groups: officials from the government institutions of San Jose and representatives of NGOs’ present in Costa Rica and community leaders from the cantons of San José, Escazú, Desamparados, Aserrí, Alajuelita and Vásquez de Coronado from the province of San Jose and Cañas en Guanacaste. The community leaders selected by the CNE already belonged to a group of people who participate in activities of capacity building in disaster prevention and emergency attention. The attendance numbers show a high representation of women, which was one of the objectives of the RPS in San Jose. Both exercises were undertaken in the local language: Spanish. Regarding the dimension of Legal and Institutional Arrangements, it was clear that the community leaders were aware of the existence of a land use plan, but the application is not visible for them. The government officials know very well the National Law of Emergency an
    • الموضوع:
      G Geography (General); GB Physical geography; GE Environmental Sciences; GF Human ecology. Anthropogeography; H Social Sciences (General); HA Statistics; TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General); Monograph; PeerReviewed
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      Contreras Mojica, Diana , Villar-Vega, Mabe, Romero, Lorena, Salgado, Douglas, Castillo, Rolando, Michael, Mousori and Miguel, Toqica 2019. Reporte del Taller para la Evaluación Participativa del Riesgo Sísmico y la Resiliencia en San José, Costa Rica (Translated title: Participatory assessment of seismic risk and resilience in Costa Rica). [Project Report]. Pavia, Italy: GEM Foundation. file
      English
      Spanish
    • Other Numbers:
      RDF oai:https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk:144478
      https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/144478/1/Contreras%20et%20al_2018_Reporte%20del%20Taller%20para%20la%20Evaluacion%20de%20la%20Resiliencia%20en%20San%20Jose%20de%20Costa%20Rica_050319.pdf
      Contreras Mojica, Diana , Villar-Vega, Mabe, Romero, Lorena, Salgado, Douglas, Castillo, Rolando, Michael, Mousori and Miguel, Toqica 2019. Reporte del Taller para la Evaluación Participativa del Riesgo Sísmico y la Resiliencia en San José, Costa Rica (Translated title: Participatory assessment of seismic risk and resilience in Costa Rica). [Project Report]. Pavia, Italy: GEM Foundation. file
      1286887842
    • Contributing Source:
      CARDIFF UNIV
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    • الرقم المعرف:
      edsoai.on1286887842
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