1. Social Aspects of Risk and Disaster and Prospective Risk Management
Allan Lavell Ph.D.
International Advisor

2. SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF RISK
Disaster as the result of actualized risk.
Disaster Risk: Hazard, Exposure and Vulnerability
Disaster Risk as the result of a process of Social Construction: Social processes that transform physical events in risk.
Risk Reduction/Risk Management must operate on the processes that create or generate hazards, exposure and vulnerability

3. DISASTER RISK MANAGEMENT
Social Process with the objective of reducing or controlling the development of Disaster Risk in society
Considers all moments of the risk continuum, from pre impact through immediate post impact to recovery phases.
Two pillars: Corrective and Prospective Risk Management

4. CORRECTIVE MANAGEMENT
Reduction or mitigation of existing risk factors.
Traditional view of Risk Management and essentially been developed in conservative fashion: reduce disaster risk; unchanged chronic risk
Corrective-progressive management introduces development goals in risk reduction, searching for improved welfare and incomes.

5. PROSPECTIVE MANAGEMENT
Avoidance of future risk and disaster and reduction of development costs of future loss and damage
Need to build climate change variables into scenarios of loss and damage.
Prevention of risk in infrastructure, livelihoods and economic enterprise in general.
Component of normal development planning and promotion and in disaster recovery and reconstruction
Public and private investment decisions, land use planning, resilience and resistance in livelihoods, environmental management.

6. International Advisor
Allan Lavell Ph.D.
International Advisor
Proyecto “Apoyo a la Prevención de Desastres en la Comunidad Andina – CAN”