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