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Allan Lavell

Research associate at FLACSO, Costa Rica, senior consultant in disaster risk management and founding member of the Latin American and Caribbean Network of Social Studies in Disaster Prevention - LA RED.

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From patching to prevention: How to align development in Latin America to avoid the next disaster

In Latin America, disasters are not acts of nature, but the result of development decisions that manufacture vulnerability and risk from their very origin.