Abstract ID: 3.10489 | Accepted as Talk | Talk/Oral | TBA | TBA

This work addresses the challenge of replicating a Risk Management Support System (RMS) co-built with the community associated with the Glacier Lake Outburst Flood (GLOF) hazard. This system was developed as a proof of concept in Villa Cerro Castillo, Patagonia, Chile. Its elaboration required forming a working group of people who lived in the village and/or had some relationship with local, municipal, or regional disaster risk management. This group was called the Local Reference Group (LRG), and it was the group in which the system was built and in which scientific knowledge dialogued with local knowledge, experiences, and memories of past events in Villa Cerro Castillo and its surroundings. The system comprises a comprehensive GLOF risk assessment tool, which considers monitoring elements associated with GLOF hazard, exposure, and vulnerability through a battery of indicators. The system developed in Villa Cerro Castillo is currently being tested in two locations in Chilean Patagonia, Puerto Rio Tranquilo, and Villa O’Higgins, in order to evaluate its replicability to new territorial contexts. This replicability process implies a series of challenges associated with local capacities to implement this system without or with minimal support from risk-competent agencies and related to the specific territorial context of resilience and sensitivity assessment. The research team has addressed the replicability of the system by seeking a balance between replicability and context specificity to effectively generate a system that allows for comprehensive monitoring of GLOF risk while adapting to different realities. To this end, a flexible tool and an adaptation guide are being developed to accompany the process. At the end of the ongoing research, it is expected to prove that the system is replicable and to identify the elements that should be considered in this process.