This document discusses mainstreaming disaster risk reduction (DRR) into climate change adaptation (CCA) in Latin America. It provides background information on Latin America, including that it has over 600 million people and has experienced over $262 million in losses from 328 disasters between 1970 and 2009. It then discusses relevant past disasters in Latin America and the initial links between DRR and CCA. Key findings from a case study in Chiapas, Mexico include identifying knowledge fragmentation. The document also outlines seminars held between Latin America and Europe focused on sharing knowledge around DRR and CCA.

1. Mainstreaming
DRR
into
CCA
in
La2n
America
Fernando
Briones
/
Brenda
Ávila
Final
conference
of
the
KNOW4DRR
Project
26-­‐27
May
2015
/
Chambéry
France
Université
Savoie
Mont
Blanc

2. • 39
Countries
(State
members
of
UN)
• Over
600
millon
people
• 328:
number
of
disasters
(1970-­‐2009)
• More
than
30
millon
people
afected
• 262
millon
USD
in
economic
losses

3. • 1985
Mexico
City
Earthquake
• El
Niño
1997,
Peru,
Ecuador
and
Costa
Rica
• Huracan
Mitch
1998
• El
Salvador
Earthquake
in
2001
• Strong
UNISDR
and
HFA
parVcipaVon
• CENAPRED
(Mexico)
• CEPREDENAC
(Central
America)
• CIFEEN
(Ecuador,
Peru)
• CAPRADE
(Peru)
• Networks
as
LA
RED
Relevent
disasters
in
LA

4. First
links
beetwen
DRR
and
CC
• Rio
de
Janeiro
Earth
Summit,
Brazil
(1992)
• COP
10
in
Buenos
Aires,
ArgenVna
(2004)
• Fourth
Assessment
Report
(IPCC,
2007)
• COP
16
in
Cancun,
Mexico
(2010)
• COP
20
in
Lima,
Peru
(2014)

5. México
Iden2fy
knowledge
fragmenta2on
(case
study
in
Chiapas)

6. Photos
by
F.
Briones
Chiapas
(Mexico)
reloca2ons
aXer
floods
and
landslides
in
1998

7. Chiapas
(Mexico)
reloca2ons
aXer
floods
and
landslides
in
2007

8. Spiekermann,
R.,
Kienberger,
S.,
Norton,
J.,
Briones,
F.,
Weichselgartner,
J.,
n.d.
The
disaster-­‐knowledge
matrix–reframing
and
evalua2ng
the
knowledge
challenges
in
disaster
risk
reduc2on.
Interna2onal
Journal
of
Disaster
Risk
Reduc2on.
2015.

9. • ArgenVna
• Austria
• Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa
Rica
• France
• Germany
• Italy
• Mexico
• Peru
• Turkie
• Venezuela
Gathering
Knowledge
between
La2n
America
and
Europe
on
Disaster
Risk
Reduc2on
and
Climate
Change
Adapta2on
Seminar
in
Mexico
City,
April
20-­‐22,
2015

10. Key
findings
and
challenges:
• The
dispariVes
between
public
policies
and
implementaVon
in
regional
and
local
contexts.
• The
lack
of
conVnuity
and
feedbacks.
• The
ownership
of
poliVcal
discourses
by
different
kind
of
intermediaries
and
intuiVons.
• The
work
in
local
level
(municipaliVes)
could
increases
the
capaciVes
to
deal
with
hazards.
• FragmentaVon
and
dispersion
of
mandates
in
different
poliVcal
levels.