DISASTER-SAFE TERRITORIES FROM LAND MANAGEMENT
Disaster-safe territories from land management

Author(s): Tulia Elena Hernández Burbano, Javier Gonzaga Valencia Hernandez
Subject(s): Geography, Regional studies
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: planning; risk; disasters; sustainable development; citizen participation; territory
Summary/Abstract: The occupation of the territory by different cultures throughout the history of humanity, shows the fi rst steps towards planning as a fundamental axis in the determination of urbanism where the land had organized use. This was not enough to avoid or reduce the damage caused by disasters that could have been prevented if people had had the means to assess the risks they were exposed to in the places they chose to stay. The learning accumulated over more than ten thousand years of living on the planet says that sustainable development requires anticipating disaster losses through the appropriation and knowledge of risks.

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