Cecilia Castro García
Cecilia Castro García is an independent researcher and consultant who has dedicated her work to enabling practices to mainstream approaches of gender equity and integral disaster risk management in community activities, government programs, urban and social development policies, and institutes advancing women’s issues. She has worked on the theories of comprehensive disaster risk management and environmental management as part of a more just and sustainable approach to development. She holds a bachelor’s in human settlement design (urban and regional planning), is a specialist in gender studies and has doctoral studies in social sciences.
Her doctoral research focuses on the social construction of disaster risk and housing policies with a concentration on social vulnerability and the limited living conditions of housing for the socially disadvantaged from 1985 to 2000.