Risk perception, risk management and vulnerability to landslides in the hill slopes in the city of La Paz, Bolivia. A preliminary statement |
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Authors: | Nathan Fabien |
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Affiliation: | PhD student, Graduate Institute of Development Studies (IUED), Geneva, Switzerland |
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Abstract: | The article begins by describing the difficult living conditions of many people in the hill slopes (laderas) of La Paz, Bolivia, demonstrating that they are exposed to a combination of natural and social hazards. 1 It shows that residents, community leaders and city planners tend to underestimate or deny risk, with important consequences for risk management, such as a failure to raise risk awareness. The article then proposes some hypotheses to explain risk perceptions in La Paz, discarding the usual single-approach interpretations and suggesting instead more nuanced theoretical explanations to account for why people build their homes in such hazardous environments. |
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Keywords: | exposure La Paz landslides natural and social hazards risk perception vulnerability |
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