Community Disaster Risk Management: A Methodological-reflexive Proposal from Participatory Methodologies

Abstract

Participatory methodologies are increasingly used by researchers and organizations linked to community disaster risk management. Under this context, the present work aimed to i) analyze the epistemological component of the socio-community research-intervention, and ii) explore the applicability of a proposal of eight methodological participatory leaps to local risk management. As a conclusion, we discuss the (self)reflexive and methodological-procedural importance ofincorporating participatory strategies in socio-community investigative-intervening proposals, as a contribution to agency processes and to the emphasis on transdisciplinary situated knowledge, being a potential mobilizing vehicle for risk reduction disaster on a local scale.

Keywords

• metodologías participativas, reflexividad, investigación en reducción de riesgo de desastre, técnicas interventivas, comunidad