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Disaster Prevention and Management
Journal Prestige (SJR): 0.47  Citation Impact (citeScore): 1 Number of Followers: 27  Hybrid journal * Containing 5  Open Access article(s) in this issue *ISSN (Print) 0965-3562 - ISSN (Online) 1758-6100 Published by Emerald  [362 journals]
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- Post-disaster research: challenges and opportunities conversation on
disasters: deconstructed on 11th of June 2021-
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Authors: Sarah Beaven, Djillali Benouar, Mihir Bhatt, Terry Gibson, Lori Peek
Abstract: This conversation presents the reflections from five prominent disaster scholars and practitioners on the opportunities and challenges associated with research following disasters and explores the importance of ethics in disaster research. This paper is based on the conversations that took place on Disasters: Deconstructed Podcast livestream on the 11th of June 2021. The prominent themes in this conversation include ethical approaches to research, how we–as disaster researchers and practitioners–collaborate, engage, and cooperate, and whose voices are centred in a post-disaster research context. The conversation contributes to ongoing discussions around the conduct and practice of disaster research.
Citation: Disaster Prevention and Management
PubDate: 2023-03-15
DOI: 10.1108/DPM-11-2022-0233
Issue No: Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print (2023)
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- Disaster capitalism in times of COVID-19 conversation on disasters:
deconstructed on September 15, 2020-
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Authors: Wesley Cheek, Claudia Gonzalez-Muzzio, Victor Marchezini, Holmes Páez, Mittul Vahanvati, Dewald van Niekerk
Abstract: This conversation presents the reflections from six international disaster scholars on how disaster capitalism manifested in very different ways in different countries, including Japan, Chile, Brazil, Colombia, India and South Africa, during the COVID-19 pandemic. The purpose of this paper is to address this issue. This paper is based on the conversations that took place on Disasters: Deconstructed Podcast livestream on the September 15, 2020. The prominent themes in this conversation include profiteering, oppression and the politics of disasters. The conversation contributes to the ongoing discussions around disaster capitalism and disaster risk creation.
Citation: Disaster Prevention and Management
PubDate: 2023-03-10
DOI: 10.1108/DPM-11-2022-0232
Issue No: Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print (2023)
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- Reflexivity, habitus and vulnerability: Vietnamese farmers' attribution of
responsibility in a post-disaster context-
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Authors: Kien Nguyen-Trung
Abstract: This article examines how farmers' assignment of responsibility for the disaster in late 2015 – early 2016 connects with reflexivity, habitus and local vulnerability. This article uses semi-structured interviews with 28 disaster-affected households in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta to answer the question. This article finds out that Vietnamese farmers actively accepted their responsibility for the disaster. In their explanation, they link their action with the root causes of vulnerability embedded in their socio-cultural traditions and collective identity. This article makes a case for the importance of local culture and epistemologies in understanding disaster vulnerability and responsibility attribution. This article is original in researching Vietnamese farmers' responsibility attribution, their aesthetic reflexivity, collective habitus and the socio-cultural root causes of disaster.
Citation: Disaster Prevention and Management
PubDate: 2023-01-03
DOI: 10.1108/DPM-05-2022-0118
Issue No: Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print (2023)
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- Post-disaster neoliberal normalization in the 1985, 2010 and 2015 Chilean
earthquakes-
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Authors: Juan Saavedra, Catalina Alvarado-Cañuta
Abstract: This article analyzes biopolitical strategies for the recovery of neoliberal normality in urban areas affected by earthquakes in 1985, 2010 and 2015 in Chile (intensity >8.0Mw). This is a qualitative design research. In total, 198 semi-structured interviews were conducted with seven focus groups. The data were processed in search of discursive threads, guided by the categories contained in the analysis and those arising from the interview transcripts. Results describe three clusters of discursive threads: disruption of normality, strategies of disaster biopolitics and narratives on the recovery of normality in the medium to long term. In the analyzed cases, disaster biopolitics entered domestic and community spaces to govern life; while the aim was to safeguard lives, it also sought to ensure the continuity of the neoliberal regime. The disaster biopolitics used the exception to normalize, constructing subjectivity and memory around the idea of catastrophes. The qualitative design can be used in sudden and extreme situations, but it is not possible to anticipate similar results in other kind of disasters (e.g. drought). This study wants to contribute a political vision about disasters by describing the process of restoring order, which follows highly destructive disasters, by demonstrating that in Chile, the biopolitical exception was key to returning to neoliberal normality. The findings can help improve emergency responses and propose the necessity of political contextualization in post-disaster recovery processes.
Citation: Disaster Prevention and Management
PubDate: 2023-01-03
DOI: 10.1108/DPM-08-2022-0159
Issue No: Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print (2023)
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- Post-disaster research: inspirational early career scholars transcript for
the disasters: deconstructed livestream on 15 September 2021-
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Authors: Kaira Zoe Alburo-Cañete, Nnenia Campbell, Shefali Juneja Lakhina, Loïc Le Dé, María N. Rodríguez Alarcón
Abstract: This conversation presents the reflections from four inspirational early career disaster scholars on the opportunities and challenges associated with post-disaster research and disaster studies in general. This paper is based on the conversations that took place on Disasters: Deconstructed Podcast livestream on the 15th September 2021. The prominent themes in this conversation include representation, power imbalances and research extractivism and reciprocity. The conversation contributes to the ongoing discussions around how research is conducted immediately following disasters.
Citation: Disaster Prevention and Management
PubDate: 2022-12-26
DOI: 10.1108/DPM-11-2022-0231
Issue No: Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print (2022)
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- Toward development of comprehensive national disaster response plans: an
evaluation of Nigeria's national disaster response plan, 2002-
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Authors: Sani Mashi, Kabir Idris, Isa Abubakar Yakubu Kazaure
Abstract: Development of a disaster response plan at a national level is regarded as the best way to undertake country-level disaster management in a well-coordinated manner, involving all stakeholders in well-built networks. Where developed national disaster response plans (NDRPs) are to be subjected to evaluative assessments from time to time to establish their strengths and weaknesses in disaster response processes. Only about 20 of the world's 195 countries have NDRPs, and only three of them have undergone some form of evaluation. This paper contributes toward filling this gap by evaluating the NDRP of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Lessons from the implementation of this NDRP will help guide the development of the plans in countries where they do not yet exist. Network and qualitative content analysis was employed to subject the Nigerian NDRP to critical evaluation using standards already established in the literature for the development of management networks and their use in disaster response. The experiences of other countries with developed NDRPs were also used to guide an effective evaluation process. Findings of the study show that the Nigerian NDRP is deficient in many respects, particularly in the areas of weak development of networks, absence of roles-differentiation for various stakeholders, lack of specified achievable and hence monitorable targets, objectives and outcomes and absence of detailed response plans for specific disaster types. The plan needs to therefore be subjected to a detailed multidisciplinary and multi-stakeholder review to get it strengthened. This is the first attempt to conduct an evaluative assessment of Nigeria's NDRP and the 4th in the world. The study's findings can help not only to strengthen Nigeria's NDRP, but also to develop similar plans in other countries around the world.
Citation: Disaster Prevention and Management
PubDate: 2022-12-21
DOI: 10.1108/DPM-08-2022-0167
Issue No: Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print (2022)
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- Intersectoral approaches: the key to mitigating psychosocial and health
consequences of disasters and systemic risks
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Authors: Anne-Sophie Gousse-Lessard, Philippe Gachon, Lily Lessard, Valérie Vermeulen, Maxime Boivin, Danielle Maltais, Elsa Landaverde, Mélissa Généreux, Bernard Motulsky, Julien Le Beller
Abstract: The current pandemic and ongoing climate risks highlight the limited capacity of various systems, including health and social ones, to respond to population-scale and long-term threats. Practices to reduce the impacts on the health and well-being of populations must evolve from a reactive mode to preventive, proactive and concerted actions beginning at individual and community levels. Experiences and lessons learned from the pandemic will help to better prevent and reduce the psychosocial impacts of floods, or other hydroclimatic risks, in a climate change context. The present paper first describes the complexity and the challenges associated with climate change and systemic risks. It also presents some systemic frameworks of mental health determinants, and provides an overview of the different types of psychosocial impacts of disasters. Through various Quebec case studies and using lessons learned from past and recent flood-related events, recommendations are made on how to better integrate individual and community factors in disaster response. Results highlight the fact that people who have been affected by the events are significantly more likely to have mental health problems than those not exposed to flooding. They further demonstrate the adverse and long-term effects of floods on psychological health, notably stemming from indirect stressors at the community and institutional levels. Different strategies are proposed from individual-centered to systemic approaches, in putting forward the advantages from intersectoral and multirisk researches and interventions. The establishment of an intersectoral flood network, namely the InterSectoral Flood Network of Québec (RIISQ), is presented as an interesting avenue to foster interdisciplinary collaboration and a systemic view of flood risks. Intersectoral work is proving to be a major issue in the management of systemic risks, and should concern communities, health and mental health professionals, and the various levels of governance. As climate change is called upon to lead to more and more systemic risks, close collaboration between all the areas concerned with the management of the factors of vulnerability and exposure of populations will be necessary to respond effectively to damages and impacts (direct and indirect) linked to new meteorological and compound hazards. This means as well to better integrate the communication managers into the risk management team.
Citation: Disaster Prevention and Management
PubDate: 2022-12-15
DOI: 10.1108/DPM-09-2022-0190
Issue No: Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print (2022)
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- Toward a critical technical practice in disaster risk management: lessons
from designing collaboration initiatives-
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Authors: David Lallemant, Rebecca Bicksler, Karen Barns, Perrine Hamel, Robert Soden, Steph Bannister
Abstract: Despite decades of social science research into disasters, practice in the field continues to be informed largely from a technical perspective. The outcome is often a perpetuation of vulnerability, as narrowly defined technical interventions fail to address or recognize the ethical, historical, political and structural complexities of real-world community vulnerability and its causes. The authors propose that addressing this does not require a rejection of technical practice, but its evolution into a critical technical practice – one which foregrounds interdisciplinarity, inclusion, creativity and reflexivity, as means to question the assumptions, ideologies and delimited solutions built into the technical tools for understanding risks. The authors present findings from three events they designed and facilitated, aimed at rethinking the engineering pedagogy and technical practice of disaster risk management. The first was a 2-day “artathon” that brought together engineers, artists and scientists to collaborate on new works of art based on disaster and climate data. The second was the Understanding Risk Field Lab, a 1-month long arts and technology un-conference exploring critical design practices, collaborative technology production, hacking and art to address complex issues of urban flooding. The third was a 4-month long virtual workshop on responsible engineering, science and technology for disaster risk management. Each of these events uncovered and highlighted the benefits of interdisciplinary collaboration and reflexivity in disaster risk modeling, communication and management. The authors conclude with a discussion of the key design elements that help promote the principles of a critical technical practice. The authors propose “critical technical practice” which foregrounds principles of interdisciplinarity, inclusion, creativity and reflexivity, as a means to question the assumptions, ideologies and delimited solutions built into the technical tools for understanding climate and disaster risk.
Citation: Disaster Prevention and Management
PubDate: 2022-10-10
DOI: 10.1108/DPM-08-2022-0160
Issue No: Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print (2022)
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- Addressing the interplay of the Sendai Framework with sustainable
development goals in Latin America and the Caribbean: moving forward or
going backwards'-
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Authors: Simone Lucatello, Irasema Alcántara-Ayala
Abstract: The 2030 agenda for sustainable development and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (SFDRR) constitute an overarching global milestone for creating a better sustainable future worldwide. The risk component of the agenda under the SFDRR must be better embedded into the sustainable development goals (SDGs) and integrating disaster risk management policy with broader development objectives at national and subnational levels in many countries is still a work in progress. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the progress between the SDGs and the SFDRR in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) and its complementary features Comprehensive and contextualized analyses of the progress of SFDRR and SDGs related to the LAC region need to be fully addressed to examine synergies and trade-offs with the two global agendas. Based on empirical evidence from United Nations global reports, a literature review of DRR and DRM, as well as development planning evidence, this paper addresses the implications of building coherence between the SDGs and the SFDRR in the region. Interplay and connections of the two agendas are highlighted together with an analysis of coherence among indicators. Despite the richness of several indicators, the examined evidence suggests that derived from the current progress, indicators are unable to completely reflect the dynamics among disaster risk drivers for both the SFDRR and the SDGs in the region. Data availability at UNIDSR as well as at the regional level can limit the scope of the research. When comparing and matching the agendas, results could be further improved upon new releases of data. SFDRR and SDGs have also ground for improvement and countries are doing well but still slow. The paper offers new insights and findings for decision/policy makers in Latina America and the Caribbean. The paper offers an overall understanding of the progress and coherence among SFDRR and SDGs global frameworks and provides insights to identify the gaps and opportunities that need to be addressed to integrate disaster risk reduction into sustainable development planning at national and regional scales in LAC.
Citation: Disaster Prevention and Management
PubDate: 2022-10-07
DOI: 10.1108/DPM-07-2022-0152
Issue No: Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print (2022)
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- Reforming Australia's approach to hazards and disaster risk: national
leadership, systems thinking, and inclusive conversations about
vulnerability-
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Authors: Monica Buchtmann, Russell Wise, Deborah O'Connell, Mark Crosweller, Jillian Edwards
Abstract: There are many pragmatic challenges and complex interactions in the reduction of systemic disaster risk. No single agency has the mandate, authority, legitimacy or resources to fully address the deeper socio-economic, cultural, regulatory or political forces that often drive the creation and transfer of risk. National leadership and co-ordination are key enablers. This paper shares Australia's progress in building an enabling environment for systemic disaster risk reduction, and specifically how a change in thinking and resolve to work differently is beginning to shape nation-wide reforms and national programs of work. The project and program of work adopted an inclusive, collaborative, co-design and co-production approach, working with diverse groups to create new knowledge, build trust, ongoing learning and collective ownership and action. Values- and systems-based approaches, and ethical leadership were core aspects of the approach. Co-creating a more comprehensive and shared understanding of systemic disaster risk, particularly the values at risk and tensions and trade-offs associated with the choices about how people prevent or respond, has contributed to a growing shift in the way disasters are conceptualised. New narratives about disasters as “unnatural” and the need for shared responsibilities are shaping dialogue spaces and policy frameworks. The authors’ experience and ongoing learning acknowledge pragmatic challenges while also providing evidence-based ideas and guidance for more systems and transformative styles and competencies of leadership that are needed for convening in contested and complex environments. This work built networks, competencies and generated ongoing momentum and learning. The lessons, evidence and reports from the work continue to be accessed and influential in research, emergency management and disaster mitigation practices (e.g. engagement, communications, training) and policy. Most significantly, the National Disaster Risk Reduction Framework provides the basis, justification and guidance for the nation's policy reform agenda around disaster risk reduction and is catalysing national efforts in developing a national action plan and systemic measurement, evaluation and learning to ensure the realisation of disaster risk reduction priorities. A practical example is offered of a nation actively learning to navigate the governance challenges and implement strategies to address the reduction of complex, systemic risks.
Citation: Disaster Prevention and Management
PubDate: 2022-10-04
DOI: 10.1108/DPM-08-2022-0168
Issue No: Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print (2022)
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- Macroeconomic co-benefits of DRR investment: assessment using the Dynamic
Model of Multi-hazard Mitigation CoBenefits (DYNAMMICs) model-
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Authors: Muneta Yokomatsu, Junko Mochizuki, Julian Joseph, Peter Burek, Taher Kahil
Abstract: The authors present a dynamic macroeconomic model for assessment of disaster risk reduction (DRR) policies under multiple hazards. The model can be used to analyze and compare various potential policies in terms of their economic consequences. The decomposition of these effects into multiple benefits helps policy makers and other stakeholders better understand the ex ante and ex-post advantages of DRR investments. The purpose of this paper is to address these issues. A dynamic real business cycle model is at the core of this research. In the model multiple natural hazards modeled stochastically cause shocks to the economy. Economic outcomes, most importantly, output can be assessed before and after disasters and under various DRR policies. The decomposition of benefits aims to quantify the concept of triple dividends. In case study applications in Tanzania and Zambia, the authors find that investments into physical infrastructure and risk transfer instruments generate a variety of benefits even in the absence of disaster. A land use restriction with planned relocation for example reduces output in the short run but in the long run increases it. Overall, policy effects of various DRR interventions evolve in a nonmonotonic manner and should be evaluated over a long period of time using dynamic simulation. The novelty of this study lies in the economic quantification of multiple benefits described in the triple dividends literature. This helps comparing ex ante, ex-post and volatility-related economic effects of multiple disasters and related physical and financial DRR investment options. As observed in the case studies, the model can also identify overlooked temporal heterogeneity of co-benefits of DRR investments.
Citation: Disaster Prevention and Management
PubDate: 2022-09-20
DOI: 10.1108/DPM-07-2022-0154
Issue No: Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print (2022)
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- Managing systemic risk in emergency management, organizational resilience
and climate change adaptation-
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Authors: Gianluca Pescaroli, Kristen Guida, Jeremy Reynolds, Roger S. Pulwarty, Igor Linkov, David E. Alexander
Abstract: This paper applies the theory of cascading, interconnected and compound risk to the practice of preparing for, managing, and responding to threats and hazards. Our goal is to propose a consistent approach for managing major risk in urban systems by bringing together emergency management, organisational resilience, and climate change adaptation. We develop a theory-building process using an example from the work of the Greater London Authority in the United Kingdom. First, we explore how emergency management approaches systemic risk, including examples from of exercises, contingency plans and responses to complex incidents. Secondly, we analyse how systemic risk is integrated into strategies and practices of climate change adaptation. Thirdly, we consider organisational resilience as a cross cutting element between the approaches. London has long been a champion of resilience strategies for dealing with systemic risk. However, this paper highlights a potential for integrating better the understanding of common points of failure in society and organisations, especially where they relate to interconnected domains and where they are driven by climate change. The paper suggests shifting toward the concept of operational continuity to address systemic risk and gaps between Emergency Management, Organizational Resilience and Climate Change Adaptation.
Citation: Disaster Prevention and Management
PubDate: 2022-09-20
DOI: 10.1108/DPM-08-2022-0179
Issue No: Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print (2022)
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- Design and implementation of a relational model of risk communication
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Authors: Raul P. Lejano, Ahmadul Haque, Laila Kabir, Muhammad Saidur Rahman, Miah Maye Pormon, Eulito Casas
Abstract: The intent of the work is to go beyond the conventional model of disaster risk prevention, where community residents are objects of risk communication initiatives, and develop and implement a relational model of risk communication wherein they are active agents of knowledge transfer. The relational model of risk communication translates risk knowledge into narrative forms that community members can share. The article discusses the conceptual basis of the model and, then, describes how it has been pilot tested and implemented in the field. Evaluation of the pilot tests consist of pre- and post-surveys comparing control and test groups. Encouraging results have been seen among vulnerable communities, such as residents in a refugee camp and schoolchildren in a storm surge vulnerable town. These outcomes support the idea that the relational approach can empower residents to be active agents of risk communication. The relational model taps into the knowledge and agency of community.
Citation: Disaster Prevention and Management
PubDate: 2022-08-30
DOI: 10.1108/DPM-07-2022-0153
Issue No: Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print (2022)
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- Governing systemic and cascading disaster risk in Indonesia: where do we
stand and future outlook
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Authors: Annisa Triyanti, Gusti Ayu Ketut Surtiari, Jonatan Lassa, Irina Rafliana, Nuraini Rahma Hanifa, Mohamad Isnaeni Muhidin, Riyanti Djalante
Abstract: This paper aims to identify key factors for a contextualised Systemic Risk Governance (SRG) framework and subsequently explore how systemic risks can be managed and how local institutional mechanisms can be tweaked to deal with the complex Indonesian risk landscape. Using a case study from Palu triple-disasters in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, the authors demonstrate how inland earthquakes in 2018 created cascading secondary hazards, namely tsunamis, liquefactions and landslides, caused unprecedented disasters for the communities and the nation. A qualitative analysis was conducted using the data collected through a long-term observation since 2002. The authors argue that Indonesia has yet to incorporate an SRG approach in its responses to the Palu triple-disasters. Political will is required to adopt more appropriate risk governance modes that promote the systemic risk paradigm. Change needs to occur incrementally through hybrid governance arrangements ranging from formal/informal methods to self- and horizontal and vertical modes of governance deemed more realistic and feasible. The authors recommend that this be done by focusing on productive transition and local transformation. There is growing awareness and recognition of the importance of systemic and cascading risks in disaster risk studies. However, there are still gaps between research, policy and practice. The current progress of disaster risk governance is not sufficient to achieve the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (2015–2030) unless there is an effective governing system in place at the local level that allow actors and institutions to simultaneously manage the interplays of multi-hazards, multi-temporal, multi-dimensions of vulnerabilities and residual risks. This paper contributes to these knowledge gaps.
Citation: Disaster Prevention and Management
PubDate: 2022-08-22
DOI: 10.1108/DPM-07-2022-0156
Issue No: Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print (2022)
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- Flood risk governance in Brazil and the UK: facilitating knowledge
exchange through research gaps and the potential of citizen-generated data
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Authors: Victor Marchezini, Joao Porto de Albuquerque, Vangelis Pitidis, Conrado de Moraes Rudorff, Fernanda Lima-Silva, Carolin Klonner, Mário Henrique da Mata Martins
Abstract: The study aims to identify the gaps and the potentialities of citizen-generated data in four axes of warning system: (1) risk knowledge, (2) flood forecasting and monitoring, (3) risk communication and (4) flood risk governance. Research inputs for this work were gathered during an international virtual dialogue that engaged 40 public servants, practitioners, academics and policymakers from Brazilian and British hazard and risk monitoring agencies during the Covid-19 pandemic. The common challenges identified were lack of local data, data integration systems, data visualisation tools and lack of communication between flood agencies. This work instigates an interdisciplinary cross-country collaboration and knowledge exchange, focused on tools, methods and policies used in the Brazil and the UK in an attempt to develop trans-disciplinary innovative ideas and initiatives for informing and enhancing flood risk governance.
Citation: Disaster Prevention and Management
PubDate: 2022-07-11
DOI: 10.1108/DPM-01-2022-0016
Issue No: Vol. 31, No. 6 (2022)
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- Social vulnerability and disasters: development and evaluation of a
CONVERGE training module for researchers and practitioners
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Authors: Rachel Marie Adams, Candace Evans, Amy Wolkin, Tracy Thomas, Lori Peek
Abstract: Social vulnerability in the context of disaster management refers to the sociodemographic characteristics of a population and the physical, social, economic, and environmental factors that increase their susceptibility to adverse disaster outcomes and capacity to anticipate, cope with, resist, and recover from disaster events. Because disasters do not impact people equally, researchers, public health practitioners, and emergency managers need training to meet the complex needs of vulnerable populations. To address gaps in current education, the CONVERGE initiative, headquartered at the Natural Hazards Center at the University of Colorado Boulder, developed the Social Vulnerability and Disasters Training Module. This free online course draws on decades of research to examine the factors that influence social vulnerability to disasters. Examples of studies and evidence-based programs are included to illuminate common methods for studying social vulnerability and ways that research can guide practice. To evaluate the module, all trainees completed a pre- and post-training questionnaire. Between July 2019 and September 2021, 1,089 people completed the module. Wilcoxon signed rank tests demonstrated a significant perceived increase in self-rated knowledge, skills, and attitudes (KSA). Students, members of historically underrepresented populations, and those new to or less experienced in the field, had the greatest perceived increase. This training module can help participants understand the specific needs of socially vulnerable populations to help reduce human suffering from disasters. This article describes a novel web-based training and offers evaluation data showing how it can help educate a broad hazards and disaster workforce on an important topic for disaster management.
Citation: Disaster Prevention and Management
PubDate: 2022-03-25
DOI: 10.1108/DPM-04-2021-0131
Issue No: Vol. 31, No. 6 (2022)
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- Japanese stone monuments and disaster memory – perspectives for DRR
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Authors: Emmanuel Garnier, Florence Lahournat
Abstract: The paper focuses on an aspect of disaster often overlooked by experts: that of disaster memory both as a prevention tool and one potentially contributing to the resilience of vulnerable communities in Japan. The objective is, more specifically, to explore one specific source of disaster memory in Japan, namely the disaster-related stone monuments scattered throughout the archipelago. To achieve the goals, the authors have studied several types of materials. First, the authors have used the “Natural Disaster Monument” online database compiled by the Geospatial Information Authority of Japan (GIS), data upon which the authors based the field research study, focused on water-related disaster in Otsu city (Shiga Prefecture). Simultaneously, the authors have systematically searched Japanese newspapers since the middle of the 19th century as well as the archives of Shiga prefecture in order to collect additional information on the statistical reality of these monuments, the context of their creation and in order to better estimate the severity of our case studies. First, the findings show that stone monuments are indeed structuring elements of disaster memory in Japan. Not only are they present throughout the archipelago, but in addition, they are still for the most part visited by local communities. Second, the findings show how this material culture of disaster, as a vector of disaster memory, could be used as a tool to better understand and bring awareness to the occurrence of specific hazards, especially to future generations. The authors promote an interdisciplinary approach by associating anthropology and history. The study offers a new and original character about an object of study relating to both the cultural and historical fields but still often neglected as a tool and object of research in DDR. The authors provide a method and suggest ways to integrate these stone monuments into DDR policies. Finally, the authors propose to better integrate these monuments into the overall reflection on disaster awareness and disaster mitigation.
Citation: Disaster Prevention and Management
PubDate: 2022-01-17
DOI: 10.1108/DPM-03-2021-0089
Issue No: Vol. 31, No. 6 (2022)
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- Development of disaster risk reduction policy in Thailand
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Authors: Kaori Kitagawa
Abstract: This exploratory study discusses the policy learning process of the development of disaster risk reduction (DRR) policy. The paper discusses how DRR has and has not developed in Thailand through the two major disasters: the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami and the 2011 Great Flood. The information was collected by documentary analysis to gain a historical and critical understanding of the development of the system and policy of DRR in Thailand. Additionally, key stakeholders' interviews were undertaken to supplement the analysis. The paper demonstrates that Thailand's DRR development has been “reactive” rather than “proactive”, being largely directed by global DRR actors. Being a small-scale study, the sample size was small. The analysis and argument would be consolidated with an increase in the number of interviews. The model can help deconstruct which dimension of the learning process a government has/has not achieved well. The application of the “restrictive-expansive policy learning” model, which identifies different dimensions of policy learning, reveals that the Thai government's policy learning was of a mixed nature.
Citation: Disaster Prevention and Management
PubDate: 2020-04-14
DOI: 10.1108/DPM-08-2019-0244
Issue No: Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print (2020)
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