Earthquakes in Peru are responsible for enormous material and human losses. One of the reasons for the latter is that risk and disaster management policies do not consider individuals as a significant factor for planning post-disaster activities. An understanding of all-important aspects that influence post-disaster efforts would reduce the number of dead, injured and affected people as well as the required money and time to invest. This research develops an interdisciplinary approach, based on seismic vulnerability, to identify those zones that need immediate attention after an earthquake. We consider vulnerability to be a result of two dimensions: social and physical. The first describes society by its anthropogenic characteristics through social indicators (age, daily income, education, etc.). The second describes the built environment and the main features of infrastructure. The resu...

This project was partially funded by CONCYTEC, within the framework of the 232-2015-FONDECYT Agreement. The authors would like to thank Joshua Wolfe for his valuable comments on the previous version of this manuscript.

This project was partially funded by CONCYTEC within the framework of the 012-2013-FONDECYT Agreement and the Common Funds 2014 of the PUCP Academic Directorate of Social Responsibility. Finally, the authors would like to thank anonymous reviewers, Joshua Wolfe and Lesley Vázquez for their valuable comments to previous versions of this manuscript.

CONCYTEC. Grant Number: within the framework of the 027-2015-FONDECYT Agreement

Demand for grapes to produce pisco in southern-coastal Peru is expected to double by 2030. However, the appellation of this beverage confines the production and limits the space for agricultural expansion, leading to a situation in which potential competition for resources with established constraints is foreseen. Hence, the objective of this study is to understand the environmental impacts, focused on climate change and water consumption, linked to the agricultural dynamism in the valleys of Ica and Pisco due to an increase in the demand of pisco. For this, the viticulture system was analyzed regarding predicted changes in terms of expansion, displacement or intensification using a consequential life cycle assessment (CLCA) approach, identifying the environmental consequences of these shifts. A two-step CLCA model was used based on the results of a previous attributional study, in which...

This study is being published as part of the International Climate Initiative (IKI). The Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety (BMUB) supports this initiative on the basis of a decision adopted by the German Bundestag. The authors would like to thank UN – Environment and the Peruvian Ministry of Environment (MINAM), namely Ignacio Sánchez and Adriana Zacarías, for technical support. Daniel Verán, Úrsula Cárdenas, Eduardo Parodi, Félix Cabrera, Alexis Dueñas, Marco Gusukuma, Alessandro Gilardino and Isabel Quispe, all from PUCP, are thanked for valuable scientific exchange. Ricardo Estrada, Manuel García Rosell and William Chata, from MINAM are thanked for their contribution with data to the current project. MSc student Gustavo Larrea-Gallegos thanks the Peruvian Consejo Nacional de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación Tecnológica ...