Geographic landscape in disaster risk management. Contributions and limitations

Abstract

The objective is to analyze the contributions of geography to the study of the landscape as a spatial and methodological unit, offering a relatively new approach to disaster risk management. For the study, a focused search was carried out on geography’s contributions to the issue of risk and disasters, as well as to landscape study, eventually an analysis of risk management was done from a landscape perspective. The originality of the study lies in the systematization of landscape approaches applied to risk reduction. The results show that the landscape is a complex spatial and methodological unit, as physical, biological and anthropic factors are involved. Among the conclusions is the role of knowledge of the global landscape as a multidimensional element, which offers a spatial, natural, historical and social perspective of the society-nature relationship. This study is theoretical in nature, so it must be contrasted with empirical or case studies.