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Disaster Risk Reduction Online Dialogue Series: Challenges for Disaster Risk and Territorial Governance in the Post-COVID-19 Era. Inputs for improving cooperation

from United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction – Regional Office for the Americas and the Caribbean

Date: Wednesday, October 13, 2021

Time: Oct 13, 2021 11:00 AM in Panama
(International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction)

Core Topics

  • Disaster risk and unsustainable development processes
  • The privatization of benefits and the socialization of risks 
  • The prospective perspective of underlying causes and disaster risk drivers
  • Transversal approaches: policies, instruments, and implementation
  • Disaster risk and territorial governance
  • COVID-19 across governance scales
  • Systemic risk governance and management
  • Science-based decision making and practice: future steps to strengthening territorial risk governance

Panelists

Mariana Arcaya
Associate Professor of Urban Planning and Public Health and Associate Department Head
Department of Urban Studies and Planning
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Diane E. Davis
Charles Dyer Norton Professor of Regional Planning and Urbanism
Graduate School of Design
Harvard University

Luis Rolando Durán Vargas
Senior Disaster Risk Management Consultant

Andrew Maskrey
Coordinator 
Risk Nexus Initiative

Gustavo Wilches Chaux
Professor
Facultad de Arquitectura
Fundación Universitaria de Popayán, Colombia

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