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INTI 13 - Vulnérabilités territoriales et résiliences : résistances et capacités d’adaptation face aux enjeux climatiques
1. THE VULNERABILITY AND RESILIENCE IN
SCENARIOS RISK: A CASE STUDY
COMMUNITY INDIGENOUS NASA IN
HUILA COLOMBIA
Yolanda Hernández Peña, Facultad del Medio Ambiente y
Recursos Naturales. Universidad Distrital Francisco José de
Caldas. Bogotá. Colombia. ythernandezp@udistrital.edu.co
Philippe Woloszyn, ESO UMR 6590 CNRS/Université
Rennes2. philippe.woloszyn@univ-rennes2.fr
2. Fuente: Con base en Procesado y georeferenciado por el Observatorio del Programa Presidencial de
DH y DIH. Vicepresidencia de la República, Base cartográfica: IGAC. 2010
The study areas are located in at central and western of Colombia,
northwestern of South America, with an area of 2.070. 408 km² inhabited
by 46 million people. Geologically, the country is at the Pacific Ring, and is
therefore particularly exposed to earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic
eruptions.
THE NASA TERRITORY
4. At 15:47 local time on June 6, 1994 an
earthquake occurred, which epicenter was
located at municipality of Paez, belonging to
the hillsides of the mountain system of the
vulcano Nevado del Huila (Cardona, 1995) by
prior hydrometeorological behavior, and
because of the geomorphological
characteristics of landslides occurred in the
area then generated a debris flow, causing
casualties, destruction of physical
infrastructure, and impacting the
environment severely.
Fuente fotografía
:http://enosaquiwilches.blogspot.com/2010/02/aprenda
mos-del-agua.html
Effects of the earthquake and the flood of the
river Paez - Tierradentro, Colombia (1994)
THE NATURAL PHENOMENON
5. Fuente (INGEOMINAS- CAUCA, 2008)
Volcano Nevado del Huila
Sight in a Landsat image mosaic Nevado del
Huila Volcano and River Basin south Paéz
6. NASA CAPACITANCE. FACTORS
Close relationship-society-nature-
culture
Nasa "social capacitance" factor
Nasa "economical capacitance" factor
Vulnerability and
resilience are two
correlative factors
in scenarios risk
9. NASA SOCIAL CAPACITANCE
Fuente: Revista Semana. Cauca se
moviliza por la paz. 10 mayo 2012
Cultural dimension of "social
capacitance" factor:
• The territory is the principal frame
of cultural identity.
• Thë Wala", is the mediator
between the natural environment
and the indigenous Nasa
10. (Caycedo, Figueroa, & Nieto, 2007):
• The land of the Nasa will never
pass into the hands of strangers
• Nasa Indians never be defeated
• It will respond to any aggression
• Nasa people should never mix their
blood
• Not fight allowed between Nasa
people
NASA SOCIAL CAPACITANCE
Historical dimension of Nasa "social
capacitance" factor
• In 1540, the Nasa indigenous army
victoriously fought the Spanish
Sebastian de Belalcazar
• Juan Tama their first
transcendental figure in colonial
times (1.696)
• Quintin Lame, in the early
twentieth century, lead epic
struggles to establish the slogan of
"Paez self-determination ".
11. NASA ECONOMICAL CAPACITANCE
FACTOR
Problems with land scarcity
The "Minga" is an important expression of
social organization, which allows
communities to realize cooperative work
to meet collective needs.
Many of them where reduced to the status
of mere "terrajeros", implying land use
payment
Cauca Minga de Pensamiento
Fuente: www.cric-colombia.org
12. The Nasa and its response to the flood
of 1994
• The culture threat from this disaster was understood by the Nasa as a
call of nature, thus a call from Juan Tama for the indigenous people to
return to their cultural values lost by the presence of illicit crops and
the consumer society.
• According to (Stuart-Olson & Sarmiento, 1995), social consolidation
after the disaster was based on community home and meal sharing, in
order to protect orphans and homeless in those particular conditions.
• The crisis that affected the Nasa community, (Wilches-Chaux 1995)
recognize the existence of indigenous forms of autonomous and
traditional organization leding to dialogue and reconstruction
activities , so that ideas about the family and the community leading
to social management constitutes the social inductance effect of the
Nasa on their crisis resolution.
15. The Nasa and its response to the
natural phenomenon NOW
• The Nasa cultural consolidation have generated an important cultural-
based resilience process for risk managing. They have created an
organizational structure to monitor Huila volcano activity, working in
conjunction with INGEOMINAS Colombia office, with providing both
seismological records and “Thë Wala” interpreted in the light of their
own cultural biomarkers, (Coyo, 2010) and (Piñacue, 2012).
• As a consequence, they created their own strategy for risk management
at a social level, through managing a dialogue between contemporary
technical knowledge represented by geological science and their
historical cultural knowledge, through the “Thë Wala” action drivers
18. Conclusions
• In the cases of Nasa indigenous, specific cultural pattern, characterized
for an knowledge about the environmental, and historical processes of
land occupation, i.e. myths and legends about the natural phenomenon
and the nature itself, allow them to overcome their traumatic situations,
thanks to that social network they have created ancestrally.
• So, despite the social and cultural crisis processes due to external
factors, the Nasa indigenous solidarity strategies reflecting traditional
cultural practices constitute the basis of their proactive resilience facing
the consequences of natural injury
• Through cultural patterns negociation, their corresponding social
capacitance construction organization enable vulnerability edges
overcoming, through allowing them to survive independently despite
adverse economic environmental and social conditions.
• Thus, the meaning of the flood of 1994 allowed them consolidate as a
resilient territorial community.