Social construction of disaster risk, Puerto Príncipe Community, Nueva Guinea, RACCS, 2013

Abstract

In this investigation the process of social construction of the disaster risk in floods situations caused by intense rains in Puerto Príncipe Community was analyzed. It inquired about the knowledge that the population has about the subject of flood disasters and the ways in which the community perceives the socio-natural threats. It was reviewed the individual and collective actions that contribute to the development of social adaptation strategies to risk, the forms of response to risk in practice or in their imagination and the role of social organizations in the definition and implementation of community mechanisms of adaptation to floods. The results of the study showed the existence of different contexts of vulnerability that increase the risk of disaster in Puerto Príncipe Community.