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I have worked with Climate Variability and its Applications in several research projects and programs along my career. During the nineties I worked as Human Dimension integrator for projects between climate scientist and agriculture, hydropower, health, and aquaculture sectors in the humid tropics of the Americas. One of their main results was the implementation of the Climate Outlook Fora through adequate tools which still take place in some countries of Central and South America through the International Research Center on El Niño (CIIFEN.org) and use by stakeholders and policy makers and probably the most important was the enhancement of capacity building through the region. During the first decade of the current century, I was involved in projects related to Integrated Water Management Tools as Ad-hoc coordinator of UNESCO-IHP-HELP Programmed for Latin America and the Caribbean. Furthermore, under the umbrella of Environmental Sustainability I lead a 10-year project which foster over three new research groups at ESPOL, developed a tool for an alert system for shrimp farms (one of the largest industry and commodity export of Ecuador), enhanced capacity building through 6MSc and 4PhD achieved, the Water and Sustainable Development Centre was created (becoming its first director) and the opening of a share MSc in Integrated Water Resource Management with two other Ecuadorian Universities which is running now. During 2009-2015, I became the first Secretary of State for Disaster Risk Management in Ecuador, building up the whole system; moving Ecuador from a response only country through a prevention one. My job resulted in a ten-fold decrease of the economic losses Ecuador recurrently had to flood events prior to 2009. During the preparatory discussions for the Sendai Conference on DRR, I was one of the two representatives of the Latin America and the Caribbean in the Pre-conference and Conference Bureau. My knowledge and strength were instrumental in including indicators for DRR actions as well as the inclusion of Sendai Framework of Action priority 2: risk governance, and not governance alone. I have worked in international projects funded by US-NSF, 2007 EU Framework of Action, UNEP, and others. Currently, after coming back to ESPOL on December 2015, I lead the creation of the Pacific International Center for Disaster Risk Reduction, being now her director. We work under the quadruple helix model with Academia, Government, Private Sector, and the Community, with the Sendai Framework of Action, the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, the Sustainable Development Goals, and the New Urban Agenda as reference umbrella, to develop and enhance resilience at the local level and to foster public policy accordingly. I am very concern about Oceans Health future, and Climate and Human Health.
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World Water Policy (2024)
Disaster Studies and ManagementEl Niño Ready Nations and Disaster Risk Reductionpp.335-345, (2022)
Advances in 21st Century Human Settlements Urban Heat Island (UHI) Mitigationpp.143-168, (2020)
Handbook of Climate Change Managementpp.1-19, (2020)
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#Citation: 95
H-Index: 5
G-Index: 9
Sociability: 4
Diversity: 1
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