Chapter 11 Community-Based Disaster Risk Management Experience of the Philippines

Abstract

Community-based disaster risk management (CBDRM) initiatives have strong roots in Philippine society not only because of the country's contributory vulnerability to disasters but also because of a culture of community cooperation known as bayanihan and a history of social movement driven by the citizens’ discontent with bad governance leading to social injustice and environmental degradation (Heijmans, 2009). CBDRM in the Philippines has been a mechanism for change within civil society (Allen, 2006; Heijmans, 2009). In this way, community-based approaches are a fundamental form of empowerment of participants and a compelling strategy for enforcing the transmission of ideas and claims from the bottom up (Allen, 2006).

Citation

Fernandez, G., Uy, N. and Shaw, R. (2012), "Chapter 11 Community-Based Disaster Risk Management Experience of the Philippines", Shaw, R. (Ed.) Community-Based Disaster Risk Reduction (Community, Environment and Disaster Risk Management, Vol. 10), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 205-231. https://doi.org/10.1108/S2040-7262(2012)0000010017