This Article Free Full Text (Free PDF) Free Alert me when this article is cited Alert me if a correction is posted Services Email this article to a friend Similar articles in this journal Alert me to new issues of the journal Add to Saved Citations Download to citation manager Add to My Marked Citations Citing Articles Citing Articles via Google Scholar Citing Articles via Scopus Google Scholar Articles by Sanderson, D. Search for Related Content Social Bookmarking                         What's this?

Reducing risk as a tool for urban improvement: the Caqueta ravine, Lima, Peru

Oxford Centre for Disaster Studies, PO Box 137, Oxford OX4 1BB 100632.1772{at}compuserve.com

This paper presents a description of the Caqueta district in Lima and describes the methodology and research methods used. It presents the key findings of the project and concludes with a brief discussion of mitigation as a tool for urban development. The paper seeks to reinforce the key point of the project: that adherence to "top down" interventions can ignore community level initiatives and the positive inputs of other actors; also that risk reduction can be used as a tool in uniting key actors to focus on protecting livelihoods, as well as lives, in the promotion of sustainable urban development.

This paper results from a recently completed project entitled "Reducing Risk In Vulnerable Communities, Lima, Peru. Phase One: Caqueta Pilot Project". The principle aim of the project was to identify and subsequently develop, with the participation of key "stakeholders", sustainable risk reduction measures for Caqueta, a particularly low-income area of Lima, Peru, vulnerable to landslides, earthquakes and fire.

Environment and Urbanization, Vol. 9, No. 1, 251-262 (1997)
DOI: 10.1177/095624789700900102


CiteULike    Complore    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter    What's this?