Smart Urban Resilience: Enabling Citizen Action in Disaster Risk Reduction and Emergency Response
Lead Research Organisation:
Durham University
Department Name: Geography
Abstract
Natural hazards in Mexico are a significant source of human suffering and economic loss. With earthquakes, hurricanes and floods, amongst others, generating estimated annual average losses of $2.9b USD, identifying novel, integrated and shared forms of disaster risk reduction (DRR) and emergency response is a national priority. Such need is particularly salient for medium-sized cities, which are home to the majority of the world's urban population yet poorly understood. Previous studies have identified that Mexican cities, given their broad diversity of geomorphological and hydro-meteorological conditions as well as the current changing climate, are likely to experience more frequent and extreme weather events. Out of the 87.7 million Mexicans living in areas exposed to various natural hazards, 70% live in urban and 10% in peri-urban areas.
Responding directly to these challenges, this project focuses on the intersection between smart/digital urbanism practices, disaster risk reduction (DRR) and emergency response to determine how the smart city (and associated technologies) can enable (or disable) citizen action in planning for and responding to disasters and emergencies. It draws on the objectives established by the New Urban Agenda (UN Habitat 2017) and the 'Urban Sustainable Development Goal' (United Nations 2015), including the need to adopt and implement DRR practices and foster participatory approaches in the making of cities, thus examining the possibility of digital technologies contributing to urban resilience in Mexico. Resilience studies and literature have shown that building resilience requires not only hard effective and efficient infrastructure and technological advances, but also capable and functioning 'soft infrastructure' including social networks and institutional capacity and coordination (Susskind 2010). Our project recognizes, seeks to capitalize on, and find ways to strengthen the already significant role that civil society has historically played in DRR and emergency response in Mexico, through examining pathways for smart city approaches towards DRR and emergency response.
While smart city narratives and digital urban technologies are undoubtedly having a profound impact on the contemporary configuration of the city, their potential for transforming the governance of DRR and emergencies in cities remains largely unexplored. This project's main aim is to understand how smart city and urban digital technologies play a role in building urban resilience through changing the ways in which citizens prepare and respond to natural disasters and emergencies, thereby empirically testing whether and how citizen engagement is important for realising the potential of smart urban technologies in DRR. The project looks at existing practice of and future potential for a range of smart city interventions (such as open data platforms, civic hacking, smart urban planning and others) altering the role of different social actors in DRR and emergency response. Geographically, the project focuses on medium-sized cities, given the potential of exacerbated future risks in these locations resulting from rapid and unplanned growth, urban sprawl and poverty. Globally, most urban residents live in small- or medium-sized cities, yet research concentrates on large- and mega-cities. Medium-sized cities bring their own challenges in governance, resource and capacity, and these challenges directly affect their ways of engaging with DRR and emergency response. The project has selected the cities of Queretaro, Puebla and Acapulco as the main locations for its case study, given the diversity of hazards and ecosystems represented within these 3 cities.
Responding directly to these challenges, this project focuses on the intersection between smart/digital urbanism practices, disaster risk reduction (DRR) and emergency response to determine how the smart city (and associated technologies) can enable (or disable) citizen action in planning for and responding to disasters and emergencies. It draws on the objectives established by the New Urban Agenda (UN Habitat 2017) and the 'Urban Sustainable Development Goal' (United Nations 2015), including the need to adopt and implement DRR practices and foster participatory approaches in the making of cities, thus examining the possibility of digital technologies contributing to urban resilience in Mexico. Resilience studies and literature have shown that building resilience requires not only hard effective and efficient infrastructure and technological advances, but also capable and functioning 'soft infrastructure' including social networks and institutional capacity and coordination (Susskind 2010). Our project recognizes, seeks to capitalize on, and find ways to strengthen the already significant role that civil society has historically played in DRR and emergency response in Mexico, through examining pathways for smart city approaches towards DRR and emergency response.
While smart city narratives and digital urban technologies are undoubtedly having a profound impact on the contemporary configuration of the city, their potential for transforming the governance of DRR and emergencies in cities remains largely unexplored. This project's main aim is to understand how smart city and urban digital technologies play a role in building urban resilience through changing the ways in which citizens prepare and respond to natural disasters and emergencies, thereby empirically testing whether and how citizen engagement is important for realising the potential of smart urban technologies in DRR. The project looks at existing practice of and future potential for a range of smart city interventions (such as open data platforms, civic hacking, smart urban planning and others) altering the role of different social actors in DRR and emergency response. Geographically, the project focuses on medium-sized cities, given the potential of exacerbated future risks in these locations resulting from rapid and unplanned growth, urban sprawl and poverty. Globally, most urban residents live in small- or medium-sized cities, yet research concentrates on large- and mega-cities. Medium-sized cities bring their own challenges in governance, resource and capacity, and these challenges directly affect their ways of engaging with DRR and emergency response. The project has selected the cities of Queretaro, Puebla and Acapulco as the main locations for its case study, given the diversity of hazards and ecosystems represented within these 3 cities.
Planned Impact
The project seeks to develop a pathway to impact that explicitly seeks to support three distinct communities:
Smart Cities and DRR practitioner communities-with a specific focus on civil society actors. Up until now, smart city initiatives and civil society actors working on DRR in Mexico have operated separately and independently, with little opportunity for interaction. The project will encourage and enable these two communities to better interact by developing spaces for dialogue and interaction, knowledge sharing, innovation and the co-production of knowledge. This will contribute towards greater awareness of the possibilities and constraints involved in mobilising smart and digital urban technologies within DRR, and of the challenges and political implications of doing so for different groups and in different geographical contexts.
The cities of Queretro, Puebla and Acapulco. The research will support these cities (their populations and municipal/state governments) to develop greater urban resilience to disasters associated to natural hazards through the use of digital and smart technologies. These cities illustrate the increasing environmental risks experienced by medium-sized cities, and are urgently in need of strengthening DRR responses, capacities and resources. Specifically, the research will benefit the three cities directly by:
- Increasing the co-ordination and integration of networks of actors working on DRR
- Facilitating exploration of the potential for digital and smart technologies within DRR and sharing learning experiences
- Generating a forum for learning and comparison across cities, and sharing problems, risks, resources and potential solutions between city actors.
- Identifying joint strategies (by users of this research) for enrolling digital approaches in ways that serve wider social goals such as social equality and environmental risk mitigation.
The proposed methodology, which interrogates three cross-cutting themes (disasters and emergencies, smart city technologies, and civil society actors) both in isolation and in their relation, opens up possibilities for identifying current gaps in alliances (among civic organizations, municipalities and local governments, smart city initiatives and technologies) and potential to incorporate digital technologies in DRR. The research outputs will generate a series of policy briefs and a substantial policy document titled 'Roadmap for engaging civil society actors in DRR and emergency response via smart city interventions'. This roadmap will include an element of co-production via a multi-stakeholder integration workshop, and will provide a process as well as an output through which stakeholders can share experiences, knowledge and identify potential joint strategies.
The project has identified five actions aimed at promoting pathways to impact, as follows:
1. Engagement of local stakeholders. Strong links have already been developed with local/state governments in Puebla, Queretaro and Acapulco (letters of support have been included as an appendix). Working in partnership, the project will identify and connect with relevant civil society actors in each city. This early engagement with stakeholders will allow to re-frame project objectives according to local needs, thus incorporating research user knowledge from the outset.
2. Dissemination of research findings via policy outcomes and press conferences.
3. Ensuring responsivity to stakeholder needs and extra support for barrier to uptake. The project will devise strategies to maximise the ability for knowledge and learning to be utilised by identifying and addressing barriers to research uptake.
4. Being prepared for unexpected opportunities for knowledge uptake.
5. Recording and monitoring impact potential.
Also see Appendix 'Pathways to Impact' for a detailed identification and analysis of impact beneficiaries and methodologies.
Smart Cities and DRR practitioner communities-with a specific focus on civil society actors. Up until now, smart city initiatives and civil society actors working on DRR in Mexico have operated separately and independently, with little opportunity for interaction. The project will encourage and enable these two communities to better interact by developing spaces for dialogue and interaction, knowledge sharing, innovation and the co-production of knowledge. This will contribute towards greater awareness of the possibilities and constraints involved in mobilising smart and digital urban technologies within DRR, and of the challenges and political implications of doing so for different groups and in different geographical contexts.
The cities of Queretro, Puebla and Acapulco. The research will support these cities (their populations and municipal/state governments) to develop greater urban resilience to disasters associated to natural hazards through the use of digital and smart technologies. These cities illustrate the increasing environmental risks experienced by medium-sized cities, and are urgently in need of strengthening DRR responses, capacities and resources. Specifically, the research will benefit the three cities directly by:
- Increasing the co-ordination and integration of networks of actors working on DRR
- Facilitating exploration of the potential for digital and smart technologies within DRR and sharing learning experiences
- Generating a forum for learning and comparison across cities, and sharing problems, risks, resources and potential solutions between city actors.
- Identifying joint strategies (by users of this research) for enrolling digital approaches in ways that serve wider social goals such as social equality and environmental risk mitigation.
The proposed methodology, which interrogates three cross-cutting themes (disasters and emergencies, smart city technologies, and civil society actors) both in isolation and in their relation, opens up possibilities for identifying current gaps in alliances (among civic organizations, municipalities and local governments, smart city initiatives and technologies) and potential to incorporate digital technologies in DRR. The research outputs will generate a series of policy briefs and a substantial policy document titled 'Roadmap for engaging civil society actors in DRR and emergency response via smart city interventions'. This roadmap will include an element of co-production via a multi-stakeholder integration workshop, and will provide a process as well as an output through which stakeholders can share experiences, knowledge and identify potential joint strategies.
The project has identified five actions aimed at promoting pathways to impact, as follows:
1. Engagement of local stakeholders. Strong links have already been developed with local/state governments in Puebla, Queretaro and Acapulco (letters of support have been included as an appendix). Working in partnership, the project will identify and connect with relevant civil society actors in each city. This early engagement with stakeholders will allow to re-frame project objectives according to local needs, thus incorporating research user knowledge from the outset.
2. Dissemination of research findings via policy outcomes and press conferences.
3. Ensuring responsivity to stakeholder needs and extra support for barrier to uptake. The project will devise strategies to maximise the ability for knowledge and learning to be utilised by identifying and addressing barriers to research uptake.
4. Being prepared for unexpected opportunities for knowledge uptake.
5. Recording and monitoring impact potential.
Also see Appendix 'Pathways to Impact' for a detailed identification and analysis of impact beneficiaries and methodologies.
Publications
Resiliencia Urbana Inteligente
(2021)
Hoja de Ruta: Sociedad Civil y Resilencia Urbana a Través de Intervenciones de Ciudad Inteligente
Description | BACKGROUND How the 'smart city' is contextualised outside Western European contexts (particularly considering the specificity of non-ODA nations) matters both for understanding the potential of smart city technologies for disaster risk reduction and as a key contextual insight resulting from the project. Drawing in the empirical findings, the project established three ways of understanding the 'smart city' in Latin America: A- The smart city as a model of urban growth where technological development plays a leading role B- The smart city as an informal ecosystem of digital technologies providing urban services C- The smart city as a way of experiencing and living everyday life through the use of commonly and readily available new digital media In the three Mexican medium size cities that were the empirical focus of the project (Queretaro, Acapulco and Puebla), there were limited instances of smart city initiatives following definitions A and B above (particularly in the context of the three disasters examined). The majority of the project's key findings relate to an understanding of the smart city based on definition C. KEY FINDINGS The project findings in relation to the coming together of civil society, smart urban technologies and disasters can be summarised in a number of key short messages aimed at strengthening the abilities of civil society for disaster risk reduction and response (DRR) in the context of the use of digital technologies. These messages have been divided in i) ways of conceptualising civil society in the context of disasters; ii) ways of conceptualising the disaster event itself; and iii) ways of conceptualising the role of smart digital technologies in the disaster. Here we report on 6 key messages within the latter category. 1. Digital technologies help us understand and intervene in disasters; making sense of them is a human endeavour. Tragedies cannot be processed by digital or automated means. 'Smart' technologies provide us with new methods of understanding a disaster, but bearing witness to it-acknowledging human suffering and provide evidence thereof in the interest of collective healing-is fundamentally a human effort. 2. The digital connections that emerge in anticipation or response to disasters reflect pre-existing social relationships. In disaster prevention and response, digital technologies do not operate independently from the social sphere. On the contrary, social interactions on digital networks and platforms are an extension of (material) social networks and values that predate the disaster itself, and can therefore be socially exclusive or inclusive. This means that inequalities, modes of social differentiation, and forms of exclusion that exist before a disaster find new forms of expression in associated digital responses and realms. 3. Enhancing urban resilience is not determined by a continuous and ever-expanding adoption of technology. In this sense, we don't always need 'more' technology. Digital technologies that strengthen urban resilience are those that put individuals, communities, and civil society organisations at the centre of action. They become meaningful only to the extent that they are used, transformed, reimagined, and steered by social groups. An ideal result of smart city technologies in DRR is a new form of action created jointly between technology and humans, based on a creative ability to re-appropriate and reuse technological tools that already are at our disposal. 4. From the perspective of enhancing urban resilience, smart city projects are useful only to the extent that they respond in a meaningful way to the needs of all people, including marginalised groups. Urban technologies must meet the needs of the people most affected by natural disasters, specifically vulnerable populations, particularly as their interests are often overlooked and their voices are less heard. 5. Familiar and everyday digital technologies promote resilience; whilst 'high-tech' is useful, it should not be overestimated. Cutting edge smart city and digital technologies often fail when disaster strikes. At these moments, pre-existing 'low-tech' alternatives become the default pathway. Such everyday technologies have greater inbuilt resilience and social reach, making them more socially inclusive. Familiar and relatively simple technologies such as digital social media and SMS text messaging can be the basis for important interventions during a disaster. 6. An effective technological solution is one that adapts to the socio-technological context where it is used, not one that replicates external or imported ones. When designing technology-based DRR projects, it is important to avoid simply reproducing what has worked elsewhere, but to reinvent based on the specific nature of urbanisation of the locality at stake. When thinking about the potential of smart technologies for DRR, it is vital to consider existing levels of social capital, social conditions, technology engagement and overall institutional capabilities. |
Exploitation Route | The Smart Urban Resilience project examined the encounter between civil society and smart city technologies in the context of emergencies and disasters, including disaster risk reduction and response (DRR). The research focused on medium-sized cities in Mexico, illustrating the growing range of socio-environmental hazards and disaster risks currently affecting urban settings in ODA countries-where rapid and uncontrolled growth, inadequate planning, and poverty exacerbate risk conditions. The project's findings avoid popular techno-utopian approaches where 'adopting more technology' (e.g. sensors, digital applications, databases, digital maps, among others) is seen as the natural and unquestionable path for increasing urban resilience through technological encounters. The findings guide a diverse group of interested parties (from communities affected by disasters to digital technology companies interested in DRR) on how to approach smart/digital technology in DRR in a way that prioritises human capacities and collective action through the actions of civil society stakeholders-as the key element for a robust model of action towards DRR. |
Sectors | Communities and Social Services/Policy Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software) |
URL | https://smarturbanresilience.webspace.durham.ac.uk/ |
Description | The Smart Urban Resilience project developed a specific output for disseminating key findings in a user friendly and accessible way. This is a highly illustrated report in PDF format aimed at the general public as well as practitioners. The specific target of this output is A) the general public and members of civil society organizations (CSOs) in communities previously affected by disasters in Mexico, B) Mexican policy makers involved in disaster risk reduction, and C) Mexican practitioners from within the technology sector interested in disaster risk reduction. The output is called 'Sociedad Civil y Resilencia Urbana a Través de Intervenciones de Ciudad Inteligente' (in English 'Civil Society and Urban Resilience through Smart City Interventions'). We call this document 'The Roadmap'. It contextualises the involvement of civil society actors in disaster prevention and response via digital urban technologies. Written in a lively and provocative style that includes ten key messages drawn from our research data, it supports stakeholders to recognise the potential of digital technologies while critically reflecting on their pros and cons, limitations, and gaps, as well as risks and opportunities. In this way, The Roadmap sets out a general framework for working with emerging digital technologies within the context of disasters, but from a perspective that questions and avoids the popular techno-utopian approach where 'adopting more technologies' (be they sensors, digital applications, databases, digital maps, among others) is seen as a natural and unquestionable path. Through the ten key questions, the Roadmap guides its users on how to approach technology in a way that prioritises human capacities and collective action (through the actions of civil society stakeholders) as the principal elements for a robust model of action towards DRR. The Roadmap has been co-produced and discussed with communities through workshops, and is being distributed via the Internet. It synthesises knowledge and insights drawn from the affected communities we studied, while providing communities and practitioners a way of looking forward, by considering a range of questions and issues to keep in mind when considering the possibility of responding to disasters through digital technologies. It was developed via an initial set of workshops that were conducted via Zoom between March and April 2021 in Querétaro, Acapulco and Puebla, bringing together a range of stakeholders including community members, members of civil society organisations, civil protection staff and academic researchers. These contributed to developing insights that were used in the roadmap as well as creating an opportunity for stakeholders to forge new connections. Additionally, following publication of The Roadmap, dissemination efforts included a workshop in Acapulco in December 2021 that drew together civil society activists, representatives of civil protection and other stakeholders to explore the roadmap and consider how it might be used in their organisations. The Spanish version of The Roadmap can be found here: - http://repositorio-digital.cide.edu/handle/11651/4770 - https://smarturbanresilience.webspace.durham.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/62/2022/03/Smart-Urban-Resilence_Hoja-de-Ruta.pdf A version in English has been produced, with the aim of increasing circulation beyond Mexico. We have carried out advancing and further developing the impact of the Roadmap, and of the project in general, via two impact-specific projects: - Newcastle University's Faculty Impact Fund (2022/23) (£5K): The aim of this fund is to enable knowledge exchange and impact activities helping researchers maximise the impact from their work and contribute to economic, societal, and cultural development in their region and beyond. The specific project being funded is based on mentoring sessions, workshops, and trans-local dialogues, particularly in Acapulco (Mexico), where a long-term collaboration existed between academia (Autonomous University of Guerrero - UAGRO) and civil society (via IIGSRDyCC, Acapulco's Instituto Integral Para La Gestión Social Del Riesgo De Desastre). The project allowed the research team to conduct a targetted mentoring process in tandem with a multi-stakeholder platform to validate and work with the broad community. These efforts were intended to broaden the participatory process associated to the Smart Urban Resilience project to a wider community audience. To maximise engagement, workshops involved arts-based approaches (including yoga workshops and the creation of a community-led mural focused on DRR) to energise and engage participants. During the workshops, ideas from the mentorship such as possible lines of action in the community were discussed, involving the community in prioritising lines of action in an accessible way. - "Building inclusive risk management: triggering changes towards community resilience" (US$28,000). This project is being funded by GRRIPP (Gender Responsive Resilience and Intersectionality in Policy & Practice - Networking Plus Partnering for Resilience; https://www.grripp.net/), via the UKRI Collective Fund (GCRF). The project's draws on the networks and findings developed through the larger Smart Urban Resilience project. Its objective is to consolidate community risk management processes and associated capacities from an intersectional perspective that considers the intertwining of the various categories of domination, including gender and class, for the creation of urban resilience. The specific lines of actions are the following ones: (i) To Create an inclusive evacuation protocol in the event of Tropical Cyclones in a specific neighbourhood in Acapulco (Mexico), considering people with disabilities, the elderly and neurodivergents; (ii) to address psychological impacts related to previous disasters that disproportionately affected women who are the people in charge of care through art-therapy, providing tools to face future events; (iii) to explore the scalability of the processes described in (i) and (ii). 2024 UPDATE: In October 2023 hurricane Otis (Category 5) affected the city of Acapulco, Mexico. Project Co-I Hector Becerril has been involved in mobilising the knowledge generated by the Smart Urban Resilience project towards the region's recovery from the impact of hurricane Otis. This included: - Participation in the roundtable "Otis: disaster and recovery perspectives from the social sciences" organized by Mexican Council of Social Science (COMECSO) 9 November 2024, few weeks after Otis hit Acapulco and Coyuca. - Organization and moderation of the roundtable "Acapulco's vulnerabilities to natural disasters like Hurricane Otis". The objective was to generate a better understanding of what is being experienced in Acapulco, Coyuca and the other affected areas by Otis; This, with the goal of guiding the reconstruction processes. |
Sector | Communities and Social Services/Policy |
Impact Types | Societal Policy & public services |
Description | Gender Responsive Resilience and Intersectionality in Policy & Practice-"Building inclusive risk management: triggering changes towards community resilience" |
Amount | £22,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | University College London |
Sector | Academic/University |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 12/2022 |
End | 05/2023 |
Description | Newcastle University's Faculty Impact Fund (2022/23) |
Amount | £5,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | Newcastle University |
Sector | Academic/University |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 01/2022 |
End | 01/2023 |
Title | Interviews on the use of digital technologies for DRR in Mexico |
Description | Dataset associated to the Smart Urban Resilience project, deposited in ReShare via the The UK Data Service. The set consists of a number of interviews conducted with Mexican stakeholders working at the interface of digital technologies and disaster risk reduction in four Mexican cities. The interviews were originally carried out in Spanish. The dataset consists of the interview transcripts professionally translated to English. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2023 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | N/A. |
Description | Building inclusive risk management: triggering changes towards community resilience. |
Organisation | University College London |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | This is an impact development project funded by GRRIPP (Gender Responsive Resilience and Intersectionality in Policy & Practice - Networking Plus Partnering for Resilience; https://www.grripp.net/), via the UKRI Collective Fund (GCRF). The project's objective is to consolidate community risk management processes and associated capacities from an intersectional perspective that considers the intertwining of the various categories of domination, including gender and class, for the creation of urban resilience. The specific lines of actions are the following ones: (i) To Create in an inclusive evacuation protocol in the event of Tropical Cyclones in the Palma Sola neighbourhood, considering people with disabilities, the elderly and neurodivergents; (ii) to address psychological impacts related to previous disasters that disproportionately affected women who are the people in charge of care through art-therapy, providing tools to face future events; (iii) to explore the scalability of the overall process. |
Collaborator Contribution | The UKRI Collective Fund award 'Gender Responsive Resilience and Intersectionality in Policy and Practice (GRRIPP) - Networking Plus Partnering for Resilience' is funded by the Global Challenges Research Fund. It is a 4-year global collaboration and knowledge-exchange project, implemented by a collective of universities. It aims to bring together theory, policy and practice to promote a gender-responsive approach to disaster management and development. |
Impact | No outputs yet. |
Start Year | 2022 |
Description | Advisory Committee feeding research outputs back to the practitioner community |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Project researchers meet regularly with an Advisory Committee composed of 5-7 high-level expert practitioners working in either digital tecnology sectors or disaster risk reduction. These meetings served to incorporate the views of both practitioner communities (digital technologies and disaster risk reduction) into the research process, while also feeding research findings back to key target communities for the project Similarly, the committee served as a unique forum with participation of high-level professionals from two previously disconnected communities, opening a space for discussion and collaboration between these two practitioner communities. The Committee had a stable participation of professionals from the following Mexican organizations: • National Coordination for Civil Protection • OXFAM • Private Sector Alliance for Disaster Resilient Societies (ARISE) • Digital Agency for Public Innovation, City of México • OPI Analytics |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | Organization and moderation of the roundtable "Acapulco's vulnerabilities to natural disasters like Hurricane Otis" (Hector Becerril). |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Hector Becerril organized and moderated the roundtable "Acapulco's vulnerabilities to natural disasters like Hurricane Otis". The objective was to generate a better understanding of what is being experienced in Acapulco, Coyuca and the other affected areas by Otis; This, with the goal of guiding the reconstruction processes. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
Description | Participation in the roundtable "Recuperación transformadora post desastre: reconstruir mejor con criterios de igualdad", CEPAL, Latin American and Caribbean Institute for Economic and Social Planning (ILPES). |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Hector Becerril participated as panelist in the roundtable "Recuperación transformadora post desastre: reconstruir mejor con criterios de igualdad", organized by CEPAL during the XIX Reunión del Consejo Regional de Planificación del ILPES (Latin American and Caribbean Institute for Economic and Social Planning), 7 -9 November 2023, Dominican Republic. Hector's participation was based on his teaching experience and research activities, including the Smart Urban Resilience project. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Participation in the roundtable "Otis: disaster and recovery perspectives from the social sciences" organized by Mexican Council of Social Science (COMECSO) 9 November 2024, few weeks after Otis hit Acapulco and Coyuca (Hector Becerril). |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Hector Becerril, participated in the roundtable "Otis: disaster and recovery perspectives from the social sciences" organized by Mexican Council of Social Science (COMECSO) 9 November 2024, few weeks after Otis hit Acapulco and Coyuca. Hector's participation connects to his research work in Guerrero, including the Smart Urban Resilience project. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
Description | Research Dissemination Workshop (online) - Acapulco |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Between 15 and 20 professionals in DRR as well as members of the public affected by disasters attended a workshop where the research team presented and discussed the research outcome 'SOCIEDAD CIVIL Y RESILENCIA URBANA A TRAVES DE INTERVENCIONES DE CIUDAD INTELIGENTE' (Civil Society and Urban Resilience through Smart City Interventions). Participants actively engaged with the research findings and provided feedback. The workshop discussed a roadmap that contextualised the involvement of civil society stakeholders in disaster risk reduction (DRR) through an engagement with digital urban technologies. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | http://repositorio-digital.cide.edu/handle/11651/4770 |
Description | Research Engagement Workshops (online) - Acapulco |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Project researchers developed a workshop in Acapulco/Coyuca (Mexico) with members of the public who had previously been affected by disasters as well as practitioners working in disaster risk reduction at local and regional levels to discuss preliminary research findings and consider their views into the development of the project. This workshop was organised in collaboration with the following local stakeholders: - Arise Mexico (Private Sector Alliance for Disaster Resilient Societies) - Instituto Integral para la gestion Social del Riesgo de Desastres y Cambio Climatico The workshop counted with the participation of a number of representatives of civil society organizations, including: - Instituto Integral para la gestion Social del Riesgo de Desastres y Cambio Climatico The workshop counted with the participation of a number of representatives of regional academic and private research organizations as well as graduate students, including: - Centro de Gestion-UAGro - CONACyT Fellow, specialist in climate change - Postgraduate students working on topics of risk and environmental scences - Local architects organization - Private sector consultants in DRR The workshop counted with the participation of a number of members of local communities previously affected by disasters, particularly from the Coyuca de Benitez region in the Acapulco metropolitan region. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Research Engagement Workshops (online) - Puebla |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Project researchers developed a workshop in Puebla (Mexico) with members of trade bodies (architecture and engineering) who had previously been involved in earthquake response in the city, to discuss preliminary research findings and consider their views into the development of the project. This workshop was organised in collaboration with the following local stakeholders: - Colegio de Arquitectos Puebla - Colegio de Ingenieros Civiles Puebla The workshop counted with the participation of a number of representatives of civil society organizations, including: - Colegio de Arquitectos Puebla - Colegio de Ingenieros Civiles Puebla The workshop counted with the participation of a number of representatives of regional academic and private research organizations as well as graduate students, including: -Benemerita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla (BUAP) -Universidad Popular Autonoma del Estado de Puebla (UPAEP) The workshop counted with the participation of a number of professionals involved in disaster response activities to earthquakes in Puebla. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Research Engagement Workshops (online) - Queretaro |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Project researchers developed a workshop in Queretaro (Mexico) with members of the public who had previously been affected by disasters as well as practitioners working in disaster risk reduction at local and regional levels to discuss preliminary research findings and consider their views into the development of the project. This workshop was organised in collaboration with the following local stakeholders: - COPARMEX - Civil Proteccin of the Municipality of Queretaro - Arise Mexico (Private Sector Alliance for Disaster Resilient Societies) The workshop counted with the participation of a number of representatives of civil society organizations, including: - Colectivo Queretaro es Uno The workshop counted with the participation of a number of representatives of regional academic and private research organizations as well as graduate students, including: - Universidad Autonoma de Queretaro (UAQ) - Instituto Tecnologico de Monterrey The workshop counted with the participation of a number of members of local communities previously affected by disasters, particularly from the community of Santa Maria Magdalena in Queretaro. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |