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EPICentre Seminars - Moving Beyond Safety & Fragility: Towards Equitable Seismic Risk Management

10 March 2021, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm

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In this seminar Mr Felipe Rivera from UCL EPICentre will share preliminary results from his fieldwork to discuss the conceptual challenges to shifting towards a new conceptual paradigm where society’s underlying pre-disaster conditions are better acknowledged and used to inform seismic risk mitigation.

This event is free.

Event Information

Open to

All

Cost

Free

Organiser

Arash Nassirpour – UCL EPICentre / Department of Civil, Environmental & Geomatic Engineering

Although disasters are widely understood as socio-environmental-technical phenomena, earthquakes are almost exclusively tackled from a technological perspective. The conceptual targets of this approach have evolved from life safety to reducing losses to functional recovery. However, from an engineering perspective, the social component of earthquake-related disasters is basically unaddressed. In this talk, Felipe will share preliminary results from his fieldwork to discuss the conceptual challenges to shifting towards a new conceptual paradigm where society’s underlying pre-disaster conditions are better acknowledged and used to inform seismic risk mitigation.

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Please note that the session may be recorded and retained as per UCL’s retention schedule.
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About the Speaker

Felipe Rivera

PhD Candidate at University College London - EPICentre

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Felipe is starting his third year of PhD in EPICentre where he is assessing earthquake governance and its relationship with overall disaster risk reduction in Chile, his home country. The focus of his research lies in connecting social sciences and humanities disaster research with seismic engineering solutions. Felipe obtained his MRes from UCL’s Urban Sustainability and Resilience Centre USAR in 2018. Before joining UCL, he was involved in developing disaster-related interdisciplinary research, public policy, and institutions. 

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