Guía didáctica para la elaboración de mapas de percepción del riesgo en educación general básica

Este documento llamado "cuaderno de prácticas" es complemento de la "Guía para la elaboración de mapas de percepción del riesgo en I y II ciclo de enseñanza básica. Es un medio para la transmisión de experiencias, información y conocimiento en materia de prevención de riesgos y de una cultura de realización de planes familiares de prevención como práctica cotidiana

Gender differences in risk and communication behabior : Responses in the New Madrid earthquake prediction

This study examines gender differences in communication behavior, risk perception, and preparedness in response to the highly publicized New Madrid earthquake prediction for a 6.5-7.5 Richter magnitude earthquake on December 2-3, 1990. A survey of 629 respondents in November and a follow-up survey of 496 respondents in February 1991 in the Cape Girardeau, Missouri, community provided the opportunity to assess public response to the false alarm. The analysis includes a panel survey of 290 respondents who agreed in November to a second interview. When compared with men, women were associated with higher levels of interpersonal discussion about the prediction and perceived higher levels of news and media influence on their perceptions of the importance of the earthquake prediction. Contrary to previous studies reporting higher levels of news media use for men, no gender differences in news media use were found. A majority of studies of risk perception suggest higher levels of perceived risk for women than men. In this study, men were associated with higher levels of risk and lower levels of preparedness (AU)

La percepción del riesgo y los factores socioculturales de vulnerabilidad : Caso de la ciudad de Manizales, Colombia

Manizales (Caldas), es una población altamente expuesta a los riesgos naturales. Además de estar ubicada en una de las zonas de más alta sismicidad en Colombia, alrededor de 350 mil de sus habitantes, viven permanetemente amenazados por deslizamientos de tierras. Este es el escenario materia del artículo que presentamos, y que es parte de un estudio global de los factores de vulnerabilidad a escala de la ciudad (Chardon, 1977). en este caso, se escogieron ocho barrios representativos - tanto en lo referente al tipo de población como al grado de vulnerabilidad, con el propósito de estudiar qué nivel de conocimiento y québivel de percepción del riesgo maneja la población de Manizales. (AU)

Una aproximación a la concepción Andina de los desastres a través de la crónica de Guamán Poma, siglo XVII

This article deals with the Andean notion of disasters as expressed in El primer nueva crónica y buen gobierno (The First New Chronicle and Good Government) written by Felipe Guamán Poma de Ayala, and if did affect the vulnerability of the people who faced these events. To this purpose, it analyzes the author's point of view concerning natural disasters such as droughts, floods, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, epidemics, thunder and lightning, trying to depict how he expresses both Andean both Andean and Christian notions, finally arriving to the cognitive handling of disasters in the Andean word in the age in which Guamán Poma wrote.(AU)

The conceptualisation of risk : some social science perspectives

In this article some critical concepts of risk research - such as 'risk', 'risk magnitude' 'perceived risk', 'acceptance of risk' 'risk communication' 'risk evaluation' - are elucidated from a social-science perspective. The discussion illustrates why interpretations of risk issues tend to clash when looked at from conflicting scientific world views (AU)

Las inundaciones en el Sudoeste de la provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina : Un problema de actores y estrategias

La inundación se presenta como un acontecimiento natural traducido por una sociedad que no es homogénea y sí, muchas veces, contradictoria. El problema del manejo de las aguas, siempre fue aprehendido en forma parcial. Para abordar esta conflictiva realidad es necesario comprender la posición de los actores, sus percepciones en relación a las inundaciones, y a la vez las de los otros actores concernidos por ella. En definitiva, se trata de no olvidar que la sociedad constituye parte del problema y también de la solución al mismo (AU)

An alternative approach to analyzing perception of environmental hazard

As the twenty-first century approaches natural disasters will occur with greater frequency bringing serious consequences for more people than ever before. The problem of minimizing damage is aggravated by inadequate recognition of hazard both at home and abroad. This paper develops a framework for understanding how percepctions of natural hazard are associated with ideas about the passage of time and ideas about the future. These constructs filter and shape perception so that aspects of the environment are either amplified or minimized thereby affecting hazard recognition. Ideas about the nature of change are thought to be especially relevant to the study of the perception of future disaster. It is argued that images of the environmental future are relatively stable but may change temporarily in response to immediate threat. The persistent character of temporal constructs may explain the short-term effect of disaster experience. A case study is used to show how faulty assumptions about shared temporal meanings confound communication between professionals and individuals. The condition of "temporal discalibration" is described and explained. The issues brought forth point to reasons why disaster prevention and mitigation ideas may be difficult for some people to accept. The promise of continued research is that ideas about time can be used to speed teh transition from unreadiness to readiness (AU)