A disaster risk management performance index |
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| Authors: | Martha Liliana Carreño Omar Darío Cardona Alex H Barbat |
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| Institution: | 1.Universidad Politécnica de Catalu?a,Barcelona,Spain;2.Universidad Nacional de Colombia,
Manizales,Colombia |
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| Abstract: | The Risk Management Index, RMI, proposed in this paper, brings together a group of indicators that measure risk management
performance and effectiveness. These indicators reflect the organizational, development, capacity and institutional actions
taken to reduce vulnerability and losses in a given area, to prepare for crisis and to recover efficiently from disasters.
This index is designed to assess risk management performance. It provides a quantitative measure of management based on predefined
qualitative targets or benchmarks that risk management efforts should aim to achieve. The design of the RMI involved establishing a scale of achievement levels
or determining the distance between current conditions and an objective threshold or conditions in a reference country, sub-national region, or city.
The proposed RMI is constructed by quantifying four public policies, each of which is described by six indicators. The mentioned
policies include the identification of risk, risk reduction, disaster management, and governance and financial protection.
Risk identification comprises the individual perception, social representation and objective assessment; risk reduction involves
the prevention and mitigation; disaster management comprises response and recovery; and, governance and financial protection
policy is related to institutionalization and risk transfer. Results at the urban, national and sub-national levels, which
illustrate the application of the RMI in those scales, are finally given. |
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| Keywords: | Risk management Performance of risk management index Decision-making |
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