Abstract
In 2015 and 2017 unusual ocean and atmospheric conditions produced many years’ worth of rainfall in short periods over Northern Chile’s Atacama Desert, resulting in catastrophic flooding in the town of Chañaral. However, the town is not only at risk of fluvial flooding, it is also at risk of tsunamis. Through a community mapping exercise, the authors attempted to establish the level of community awareness about tsunamis, and contrasted it with that of other types of water-related hazards facing the town (namely that of flooding due to high intensity rain). This was then compared with the results of field surveys and tsunami hazard simulations, indicating than overall the community appears to have better awareness than authorities about the threat posed by these types of events. The authors thus concluded that in cases when the community has a high level of hazard awareness (which in the case of Chile was the result of traditional knowledge being transmitted from previous generations) it would be advantageous to include them in discussions on how to improve disaster resilience.
Highlights
Recovering from and strengthening societal resilience towards natural hazards and the impact of anthropogenically accelerated climate change are complex processes that require extensive investmentsGeosciences 2019, 9, 279; doi:10.3390/geosciences9070279 www.mdpi.com/journal/geosciencesGeosciences 2019, 9, 279 in disaster governance [1,2]
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Summary
Recovering from and strengthening societal resilience towards natural hazards and the impact of anthropogenically accelerated climate change are complex processes that require extensive investmentsGeosciences 2019, 9, 279; doi:10.3390/geosciences9070279 www.mdpi.com/journal/geosciencesGeosciences 2019, 9, 279 in disaster governance [1,2]. Sendai for Framework that would enable collaboration enable collaboration between stakeholders to address and reduce multiple disaster riskshelps [4,5]. Between stakeholders to address and reduce multiple disaster risks [4,5]. Disaster preparedness distinguishes itself the rest a disaster. Disaster preparedness distinguishes itself from the rest of disaster from governance of disaster governance practices by encompassing activities that educate and ensure the readiness of practices by encompassing activities that educate and ensure the readiness of the residents of a given the residents of aagiven territory against a potential activities that are implemented in both territory against potential disaster; activities thatdisaster; are implemented in both the pre-impact and the pre-impact and post-impact phases of an event [6]
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