In recent decades, Latin America (LA) has been frequently and severely affected by floods and landslides. There is an urgency for adopting Comprehensive Disaster and Climate Risk Management (CRM). In 2016, a group of Peruvian universities established a network (Gestión Integral del Riesgo de Desastres y Adaptación al Cambio Climático (GIRD-ACC)) committed to the principles of CRM. This article compiles and evaluates the network results/plans and actions. A qualitative study and a methodological strategy are reported featuring: a bibliographic/network documentary review; an account of the events that led to the start and development of the network; and a case study of a three-university network. Results show that the network can help in deepening knowledge and forging a culture of risk prevention. This is by incorporating risk management and climate change awareness in professional training and intensive activity to meet the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs -11, 13, and 17). Results indicate the importance of gaining consensus (a notoriously difficult task in LA) between the authorities and the operational departments; the role of universities’ social responsibilities; incorporating sustainability and risk management themes in the mainstream curricula; and developing a network by learning from similar groupings across LA to improve CRM within universities.

The benefits of ozone when applied to pathogenic loads have been reported in various publications, however, the technical characteristics of these for their design and implementation are not always published. The objective was to develop a bibliographic search, to be the basis of the minimum technical specifications that a prototype ozone system should have that allows its use in the biological waste area of a health center in the city of Tacna, achieving an important part such as the electrical circuit of the same. Four databases were reviewed: Science Direct, IEEE, Scopus, SAGE Publications Inc., and the search engine Google Académico was used, from which 201 articles were obtained, of which eight were used as the basis for what is proposed as a technical specification in a TRL 5. It was concluded that the state of the art provides information that channels levels of TRL that one expects.