Disaster management for flooding in Villavicencio
Published
July 12, 2018
Categories
Copyright (c) 2023 Editorial Universidad de los Llanos
ISBN PDF
PDF
ISBN-13
9789588927770
ISBN Formato físico
Formato físico
ISBN-13
9789588927183
How to Cite
León Camargo , A., & Caicedo Mora , H. G. (2018). Disaster management for flooding in Villavicencio . Editorial Universidad de los Llanos. Retrieved from https://editorial.unillanos.edu.co/index.php/editorial-unillanos/catalog/book/24
Keywords:
Flood control
Natural Disasters - Villavicencio (Colombia)
Floods - Villavicencio (Colombia)
Environmental Risk Assessment - Villavicencio (Colombia)
Risk assessment
Hydrological monitoring
Public policies
Abstract
Natural disasters are phenomena that significantly affect people's quality of life and their consequences can be catastrophic. For this reason, governments establish within their public policies guidelines for risk management in cities, through mechanisms that provide comprehensive attention and mitigate the social, economic and environmental impact. Flood disaster management in Villavicencio investigates the regulations that currently cover the capital of Meta, making a detailed study of the regulations and the repercussions of their implementation -and non-implementation-. In this way, the actors, scenarios and characteristics of a city with more than forty neighborhoods at risk are analyzed. The authors propose a critique of the failure to comply with the guidelines and the consequences of the lack of design and execution of action plans consistent with the reality of a city highly prone to flood disasters.
