Antonio Aretxabala habla en una conferencia sobre la cultura como herramienta para adelantarse y sobreponerse a las catástrofes
Antonio Aretxabala speaks at lecture about culture as tool to anticipate and overcome catastrophes.
The workshop was organized by the Ateneo Navarro with the partnership of the Pamplona City Council.
The geologist Antonio Aretxabala, director
technician of the laboratory of the School of Architecture, spoke at a lecture on 'Culture as the best tool to anticipate and overcome catastrophes'. The professor intervened in the first workshop of the cycle 'Catastrophic Landscapes and Urban Planningorganized by the Ateneo Navarro with the partnership of the City Council of Pamplona.
Geographers, geologists, physicists, urban architects, psychologists and technicians in Civil Protection participated in these conference on November 19 and 20, dealing with natural and man-made disasters and the emergency situations generated.
The goal of the activity was to reflect on their causes and the consequences that this subject of situations provoke in the inhabitants who suffer them. The round tables were introduced by Dámaso Munarriz Guezala, geographer and Territorial Planning Technician of NASUVINSA (Navarra de Suelo y Vivienda).
Six interdisciplinary experts
In the same workshop as Antonio Aretxabala, intervened the physicist José Manuel Martínez Solares, professor at the Complutense University of Madrid, head of the Geophysics area of the National Geographichigh school , board member of the Executive Council of Earthquake Resistant Standards and secretary of the Spanish Commission of Geodesy and Geophysics; and the town planner Manuel Borobio, director of the high school of Territorial Studies in the Xunta de Galicia.
On the 20th Marta González Díaz, who works in the area of Geological Engineering and Risks of the high school Geological Institute of Catalonia (IGC) in the production of the cartographic series 'Maps for the Prevention of Geological Risks' and in the realization of programs of study of danger, gave her speeches; Pedro J. Lardiés, senior technician of Civil Protection in the City Council of Zaragoza, head of department of Civil Protection and Emergency Plans of this City Council, and delegate for the Autonomous Community of Aragon of the association National Association of Professional Specialists in Civil Protection and Emergencies (ANEPPCE); and César San Juan Guillén, professor of department of Social Psychology and Methodology of Behavioral Sciences of the University of the Basque Country and president and founder of the NGO Psychologists Without Borders-Basque Country.
Interview in Onda Cero
Interview in Cadena SER