TY - JOUR
T1 - Understanding community-level flooding awareness in remote coastal towns in northern chile through community mapping
AU - Cubelos, Carlota
AU - Shyam Kularathna, A. H.T.
AU - Valenzuela, Ven Paolo Bruno
AU - Iliopoulos, Nikolaos
AU - Quiroz, Marco
AU - Yavar, Ramon
AU - Henriquez, Pedro
AU - Bacigalupe, Gonzalo
AU - Onuki, Motoharu
AU - Mikami, Takahito
AU - Cienfuegos, Rodrigo
AU - Aranguiz, Rafael
AU - Esteban, Miguel
N1 - Funding Information:
279The authors would like to thank the kind contributions of different project funding and agencies to conduct the work that went into this project. Funding for students and faculty from the University of Tokyo was provided by the Science and Engineering Exchange Program with Latin America (SEELA) and the Graduate Program in Sustainability Science, Global Leadership Initiative (GPSS-GLI), both of which ultimately depend on the Japanese Ministry of Education (Mombukagakusho). Funding for the members of the Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepcion and Tokyo City University was provided by the project FONDECYT/11140424. Funding for members of the Research Center for Integrated Disaster Risk Management (CIGIDEN) team was provided by CONICYT/FONDAP/15110017. Finally, a part of the present work performed as a part of activities of Research Institute of Sustainable Future Society, Waseda Research Institute for Science and Engineering, Waseda University.
Funding Information:
Acknowledgments: The authors would like to thank the kind contributions of different project funding and agencies to conduct the work that went into this project. Funding for students and faculty from the University of Tokyo was provided by the Science and Engineering Exchange Program with Latin America (SEELA) and the Graduate Program in Sustainability Science, Global Leadership Initiative (GPSS-GLI), both of which ultimately depend on the Japanese Ministry of Education (Mombukagakusho). Funding for the members of the Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepcion and Tokyo City University was provided by the project FONDECYT/11140424. Funding for members of the Research Center for Integrated Disaster Risk Management (CIGIDEN) team was provided by CONICYT/FONDAP/15110017. Finally, a part of the present work performed as a part of activities of Research Institute of Sustainable Future Society, Waseda Research Institute for Science and Engineering, Waseda University.
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PY - 2019/7
Y1 - 2019/7
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Chile
KW - Community mapping
KW - Human-centered design
KW - Participatory design
KW - Remote communities
KW - Tsunami awareness
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U2 - 10.3390/geosciences9070279
DO - 10.3390/geosciences9070279
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85069704897
SN - 2076-3263
VL - 9
JO - Geosciences (Switzerland)
JF - Geosciences (Switzerland)
IS - 7
M1 - 279
ER -