INTERNATIONAL WEBINAR
HOUSEHOLD DISPLACEMENT AND RETURN AFTER DISASTERS

The Technical Committee on Disaster Risk Management of the World Federation of Engineering Organizations (WFEO) and the Peruvian Engineers Association (CIP) are organizing this important event to be held on March 07th, at 07:00 hrs. in Lima and 12:00 hours in London.

Household displacement following disasters has become endemic in many areas worldwide, affecting at least 265 million people between 2008 and 2018. Although this figure includes short-term and potentially life-saving evacuations, there is ample evidence that not all households return after the emergency phase. Protracted displacement is associated with particularly negative consequences for the affected households and community. Yet, existing data on displacement duration is limited, and only a few disaster recovery models incorporate the multitude of factors beyond housing damage that are known to influence household return. This presentation will summarize recent and ongoing research focused on quantifying household displacement and return within disaster risk models, particularly for sudden-onset hazards (e.g., earthquakes, hurricanes/typhoons).

PROGRAMME

Welcome José Macharé Ordoñez –President of the CDRM-WFEO, Peru
Introduction Valentina Putrino – Catastrophe Risk Analyst at Ariel Re. Leader of Working Group 4 – Capacity Building del WFEO-CDRM, United Kingdom
Case of study  Nicole Paul- PhD Candidate DE|RISC Lab
Comments and questions From experts and the general public
Closing Valentina Putrino – Catastrophe Risk Analyst at Ariel Re. Leader of Working Group 4 – Capacity Building del WFEO-CDRM, United Kingdom

OUR SPEAKERS

Nicole Paul is a PhD candidate at University College London researching household displacement after disasters. Her background is in structural engineering, with a BSc from UC Berkeley and an MSc from Stanford University. She has over nine years of experience quantifying disaster risks at the Global Earthquake Model (GEM) Foundation and Arup San Francisco. At the GEM Foundation, she conducted earthquake risk assessments at the national and regional scales. At Arup, she was focused on the campus and building-specific scales, with an emphasis on modeling recovery after disasters.

OUR MODERATOR

Dr Valentina Putrino is currently a Catastrophe Risk Analyst at Ariel Re. She obtained her PhD from University College London (UCL), focusing on developing a framework for multi-hazard assessment of historic stonework structures. She currently holds the position of Chair of the EEFIT Committee, she is the SECED Representative for the World Federation of Engineering Organizations (WFEO) – Committee on Disaster Risk Management (CDRM) and is also the designated liaison member between both SECED and EEFIT committees.