Raizal perceptions on climate change and disaster risks

The article is based on the question of what perceptions the Raizal ethnic community of San Andr & eacute;s, Providencia and Santa Catalina contributes to the updating of public policies for the adaptation and mitigation of climate change and for Disaster Risk Management (DRM). The perspectives and assessments of this ethnic community on these conflicts are explored, em- phasizing the causes and consequences associated with them, as well as the assessments they make of environmental and cli- mate risk conflicts in order to prioritize a public agenda. To this end, a qualitative, hermeneutic and phenomenological methodology was used, with the collection of information through five semi-structured interviews, three focus groups and three problem trees with members of the Raizal ethnic community. The perceptions offer an ethnic referential that values the over- population of San Andres as the most relevant conflict, which is replicated as a tension for the islands of Providencia and Santa Catalina, where, based on local governance exercises, they have managed to contain the advance of foreigners, stimulated by the tourism sector.