Open AccessSocial Resilience, Disaster Prevention, and Climate Change: Challenges from Mexico
Author(s) -
Daniel Rodríguez Velázquez
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
journal of disaster research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.332
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 1883-8030
pISSN - 1881-2473
DOI - 10.20965/jdr.2010.p0155
Subject(s) - resilience (materials science) , climate change , environmental planning , emergency management , environmental resource management , political science , geography , environmental science , geology , oceanography , physics , law , thermodynamics
Major damages associated with natural and technological hazards in Mexico occur mainly in the country’s poor and marginalized south and southeastern regions. Technical and administrative issues create some challenges in building disaster resilience into Mexico’s communities, but the main challenge lies in public policy. National, state, and municipal governments must work with different organizations to build community resilience with the objective of linking development to welfare and security. In intervention, challenges lie in consolidating programs and actions related to disaster prevention and adaptation to climate change. We suggest an agenda for promoting social resilience as a component of public policy.