Country of Coverage: Spain
Field of Expertise: Geography, mapping, emergency planning and local risk assessment
Languages: Spanish, English
Email: jdiazpac@ull.es
PhD in Geography, he is an expert on urban land uses and mapping. As lecturer and researcher he started in 2013 an important activity on the field of Disaster Risk Reduction. Its main contributions as scholar are focussed on the study of several hazards, and the practice of participatory assessment and cartography to elaborate emergency planning. Although he is currently affiliated to the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, he is part of the “Chair DRR Resilient Cities” in the University of La Laguna, where he started many of the initiatives to foster the Resilient Cities Campaign in the islands. The University Chair works creating methodologies for developing risk and emergency planning, training on risk assessment and risk management, and having a deeply commitment on involve stakeholders in the strategies for risk mitigation.
Campaign Activities- Organization in 2014 together with the Canary Government the Canary Association of municipalities and the University of La Laguna and UNDRR, an international Forum ‘Resilient Canary Islands’ to involve at local authorities on the campaign
- Incorporation of the most of the municipalities and 6 of the 7 Canary Islands to the campaign
- Supporting the self-assessment of three municipalities and Tenerife’s island
- Launching from the University an annual online course (2018 was the sixth edition) on Risk assessment and Risk management where the principles of Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, the ten essentials and other aspects of the campaign are introduced
- Organization every year, since 2014, different activities, forum and conferences to commemorate the International Day for Disaster Reduction in the Islands
- To foster a Canary strategy for resilience 2019 – 2025 currently on negotiations with the local Government