Revealing the interaction between Society and Nature. DesInventar, disaster inventories for damage and loss assessment

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1 UNFCCC Regional expert meeting on a range approaches to address loss and damage associated with the adverse effects climate change, including impacts related to extreme weather events and slow onset events Barbados, 8 to 11 October 2011 Revealing the interaction between Society and Nature. DesInventar, disaster inventories for damage and loss assessment Cristina Rosales Climent

2 DesInventar in brief Created by La Red and eight Latin America instititutions under coordination OSSO in 1994, It consists conceptual and methodological development on disasters all magnitudes, specially on small and medium disasters There is an emphasis on spatial disaggregation large-scale disasters Each database uses an homogeneous scale to systematize data

3 Premise on scales The magnitude the losses becomes visible according to observation and systematisation scales on space and time

4 Collection data on small disasters Trinidad and Tobago database Disaster datacard Example: Event type: Electrical storm Date: St Patrick Datacard ID: people affected US $ Source: University West Indies

5 Spatial disaggregation large-scale disasters Number disaster datacards People affected Wilma Hurricane: 13 parish affected 30 diferent disaster datacards floodind and landslide and 3 people dead people affected 8478 houses affected 9 houses destroyed + many other losses registered Source: Office Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management, Jamaica

6 Basic concepts Disaster, the set losses and damages - diverse magnitude - collected at detailed scale - associated with natural and socio-natural hazards and man-made events, No restrictions on the magnitud losses (no threshold a priori) Database, is the systematic inventorying spatial scale. Is the inventory disasters losses on a homogenous

7 Main fields Basic loss variables Description Dead people Health centres Date Affected people Destroyed houses Educational centres + sectors Source information Type event / cause Affected houses + user's fields Admnistrative unit Damaged crops Description Affected routes + user's fields Customisable fields

8 Type events Hydro-meteorological Climate related Flood Landslide Hurricane Tornado Flash flood Rainfall Change in coastline Hail Torrential flow Avalanche Storm surge Fog Snowfall Heatwave Sedimentation Drought Geological Volcanic activity Earthquake Tsunami Other Epidemic Plague Structural collapse Fire Forest fire Contamination Panic Explosion

9 Features development databases The databases are created and built entities. by and for local Databases: can be personalised to meet local requirements The stware is free open source code, distributed under the General Public License, GPL (no cost) Database are available online for public consultation

10 Disaster loss databses around the globe In the Caribbean: Jamaica Trinidad and Tobago Guyana Dominican republic With the support TheUnitedNationsOffice For Disaster Risk Reduction

11 12 Thank you Cristina Rosales Climent DesInventar Development Team crosales@osso.org.co desinventar@desinventar.org Column 1 Column 2 Column Row 1 Row 2 Row 3 Row 4