Metodología para la caracterización de la vulnerabilidad de los asentamientos humanos en Costa Rica según su tipología. Caso de estudio: Región Cartago

This project proposes the creation of a research group that integrates the lines of research and extension proposed in the School of Construction Engineering and managed by the Housing and Construction Research Center; and Schools such as Architecture and Urban Planning, Forestry Engineering and Electronic Engineering, to work on projects oriented toward recent human settlements.
The goal is to “Manage actions that contribute to the adaptation to climate change of human settlements, including all the elements that compose them: infrastructure, people, natural resources and socioeconomic environment.”
As the first action of this group, the research project proposal called: Methodology for the characterization of the vulnerability of human settlements in Costa Rica according to their typology is presented. Case study: Cartago Región; This being the first stage towards the implementation of resilient human settlements.
The main objective of this project is “To propose a methodology for the characterization of the vulnerability of human settlements in Costa Rica according to their typology, in order to guide the actions required to be resilient.” This objective aims to take a first step in solving the problem that many settlements in Costa Rica present, which are not prepared for the current conditions, which causes not only material losses, but in some cases human victims.
For this methodological proposal, the definition of a typology is required for the characterization of existing human settlements in Costa Rica, which allows grouping and identifying possible vulnerabilities. Based on this typology, threats to settlements and their consequences will be identified; to finally propose the methodology and apply it to a case study, defined in this project as the development pole of Cartago.
These products will allow, in a future stage, to generate actions that make human settlements more resilient.

Proponer una metodología para la caracterización de la vulnerabilidad de los asentamientos humanos en Costa Rica según su tipología, con el fin de orientar las acciones requeridas para ser resilientes.

1. Infraestructura vial
2. Planificación urbana y ordenamiento territorial
3. Recursos hídricos y ambiente