Vulnerability to natural disasters: a vision from the socio-communicational approach Some considerations on natural risk management in Peru

Yuli-Posadas R.; Javier-Silva L.; Manrique-Ruiz A.; Bulege-Gutiérrez W. · Encuentros (Maracaibo) (2023) · DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7527773

Resumen

Every year in the world thousands of lives are lost as a result of natural disasters, many of them derived from the lack of knowledge of phenomena and others due to the existing social reality, for these reasons, this article seeks to reflect on human vulnerability to natural disasters, from the socio-communicational perspective, taking as reference some considerations in Peru. For this, the documentary methodology of phenomenology was used, assuming a heuristic position of the field of critical rationality. The findings made it possible to determine «sine controversia» that natural phenomena are irreducible, therefore, a disaster management system focused on a socio-communicational approach will reduce vulnerability, based on mass communication to educate citizens, information systems technology to reduce tensions during the catastrophe and an emergency social information model for the recovery of the impacted territory with community resilience.

Instituciones: Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos; Universidad Nacional de Huancavelica; Universidad Continental; Universidad Privada del Norte