El manejo social del riesgo y de las vulnerabilidades de los hogares en Colombia

Abstract

"This is a risk management applied research focusing on the analysis of perceptions and vulnerabilities. It covers urban and rural population's vulnerabilities from the poorer to the middle class, particularly those linked to economic sectors in crisis such as the construction. It shows the multi dimensionality of the crisis in Colombia pointing out how economic crisis is cause and result of the political crisis and viceversa. It demonstrates how households enter into a circle or processes of accumulated social vulnerabilities and that households design and implement a wide variety of legal an illegal coping strategies to mitigate and recover from crisis - that sometimes increases their risk and the processes of accumulated social vulnerabilities."