From science to practical applications in disaster management: views from UN-SPIDER

Juan Carlos Villagran Leon ()
Additional contact information
Juan Carlos Villagran Leon: UN-SPIDER Programme, UNOOSA

Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, 2023, vol. 119, issue 2, No 19, 1136 pages

Abstract: Abstract This article presents the process followed by UN-SPIDER when contributing to the uptake of scientific results by technical staff in government agencies and people in communities at risk. The article suggests the chain of four types of actors to describe the process by which scientific outputs are incorporated by end-users in the topic of disaster management. It makes reference to scientific liaisons as those actors that facilitate the uptake of scientific results by transforming such results into more usable products. In addition, it outlines the role of technical staff in government agencies who take scientific results and products to generate relevant policies, norms and regulations that should be used by those at risk to minimize the potential impact of natural or technological hazards based on the notions of risks.

Keywords: Disaster management; Risk management; Scientific update; Science and technology for disaster management; Space technologies for disaster management (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s11069-023-05898-y Abstract (text/html)
Access to the full text of the articles in this series is restricted.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:nathaz:v:119:y:2023:i:2:d:10.1007_s11069-023-05898-y

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.springer.com/economics/journal/11069

DOI: 10.1007/s11069-023-05898-y

Access Statistics for this article

Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards is currently edited by Thomas Glade, Tad S. Murty and Vladimír Schenk

More articles in Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards from Springer, International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().