Fernando Aragón-Durand, an outside consultant at the Centro Mario Molina in Mexico spoke at the Joint Public Advisory Committee's Resilient Communities in North America workshop in New Orleans on July 9, 2012. More info at http://www.cec.org/Council2012

1. JPAC Workshop
“Resilient Communities in North America”
New Orleans, Louisiana
9-10 July, 2012
From vulnerability to resilience :
discourses, policy values and responses
Fernando Aragón-Durand, PhD.
faragon@centromariomolina.org

2. What could happen if we don t act
to create more resilient
communities?

3. Resilient communities
Enhancing adaptive capacities
Vulnerable communities

4. Floods context
Resilient communities
Enhancing adaptive capacities
Vulnerable communities to floods

5. How are communities framed in the
context of floods?
To what extent discourses frame
policy responses?
What are the practical implications of
that when building resilient
communities?