Disaster Risk Reduction Online Dialogue Series: Urbanization and Disaster Risk in LAC
Disaster Risk Reduction Online Dialogue Series
Online Dialogue 1
Urbanization and Disaster Risk in LAC
Date: Monday, September 20, 2021
(International Day of Peace)
Duration: 90 mins.
Core Topics
- Urban growth, unsustainable development, and informality
- Infrastructure, services, and associated disasters in the region
- Socio-environmental hazards in cities
- Climate change and disaster displacement
- Urban systemic risk and COVID-19
- Risk-informed, sustainable development: from academic discourse to action
- Governance and urban management
Panelists
Rodney Martínez
WMO Representative for North America, Central America, and the Caribbean
Roberto A. Sánchez-Rodríguez
Emeritus Professor
Department of Environmental Sciences
University of California, Riverside
Juan Pablo Sarmiento
Professor and Associate Director for Research
Florida International University (FIU) Extreme Events Institute