Albergues y reubicación de los damnificados. Experiencias paceñas en gestión de crisis y vulnerabilidad

Abstract

In recent years, damages of natural origin have affected the town seat of the Bolivian government and these have led authorities to implement new policies of risk management. Thus, they have been seeking to manage crises by taking into account the various crisis phases: emergency, recovery and rebuilding. The first two phases have made them consider the organization of the assistance, in particular the management of shelters for the disaster victims. The last led them to think about risk and its long-term management: at the same time they have built works intended to withstand natural threats (violent precipitations, floods, landslides), and they have installed mechanisms to remove disaster victims from exposure to threats of natural origin by relocating them in other parts of metropolitan La Paz. In addition to the explicit recognition of the powerlessness of risk managers to reduce threats, the policy of relocation showed that they have difficulties in conceiving of risks in accord with what is at stake.

Keywords

• crisis
• risk
• disaster victim
• shelter
• relocation
• strategic element