Disaster Prevention and Management
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The blame game: disaster, queerness and prejudice
Ashleigh Rushton, Jazmin ScarlettThe purpose of this article is to draw attention to how harmful and inaccurate discourses pertaining to disaster responsibility is produced, the negative implications such…
Viewing humanitarian project closure through the lens of an ethics of the temporary
Lisa Eckenwiler, Matthew R. Hunt, Jan Joy Louise G. Crismo, Elyse Conde, Shelley-Rose Hyppolite, Mayfourth Luneta, Isabel Munoz-Beaulieu, Handreen Mohammed Saeed, Lisa SchwartzIn this paper, the authors propose a new lens to examine international humanitarian organizations' responsibilities in the context of project closure, what authors call…
From labelling weakness to liberatory praxis: a new theory of vulnerability for disaster studies
Jason von Meding, Ksenia ChmutinaVulnerability is a label and a concept that is widely used in disaster studies. To date the meaning has been quite limited and implied “weakness”, with criticisms arising…
Integrating indigenous knowledge and state-of-the-art Earth observation solutions for the Sendai framework implementation
Milind Pimprikar, Myrna Cunningham, Shirish Ravan, Simon LambertIndigenous peoples represent one of the most vulnerable groups and need access as well as hands-on experience in the use of emerging Earth observations (EO)-based DRR…
The social construction of systemic risk: towards an actionable framework for risk governance
Andrew Maskrey, Garima Jain, Allan LavellThis paper explores the building blocks of risk governance systems that are equipped to manage systemic risk in the 21st century. Whilst approaches to risk governance have…
The dynamics of cross-sector collaboration in disasters
Khiam Jin Lee, Sanna K. Malinen, Venkataraman NilakantThis study examines challenges to cross-sector collaboration in disasters. The authors use Malaysian flooding as the context for the study and offer a framework to…
Earth observations into action: the systemic integration of earth observation applications into national risk reduction decision structures
David Eley Borges, Steven Ramage, David Green, Christina Justice, Catherine Nakalembe, Alyssa Whitcraft, Brian Barker, Inbal Becker-Reshef, Charles Balagizi, Stefano Salvi, Vincent Ambrosia, Jesus San-Miguel-Ayanz, Luigi Boschetti, Robert Field, Louis Giglio, Laila Kuhle, Fabian Low, Albert Kettner, Guy Schumann, G. Robert Brakenridge, Robert Adler, Haris Kontoes, Helene De Boissezon, Andrew Eddy, Dalia Kirschbaum, Robert Emberson, Savannah Cooley, Simone Lloyd, Cecille Blake, Kelsey ReichenbachAs stated in the United Nations Global Assessment Report 2022 Concept Note, decision-makers everywhere need data and statistics that are accurate, timely, sufficiently…
Gender and leadership in the wake of the 2010 earthquake and tsunami in Chile
Ana Gabriela Fernández Saavedra, Rosario González Arias, Sandra Dema Moreno, Virginia Cocina DíazThe aim of this article is to reveal the extent to which a disaster situation contributed to fostering leadership in the population affected in terms of gender.
Disaster capitalism in times of COVID-19 conversation on disasters: deconstructed on September 15, 2020
Wesley Cheek, Claudia Gonzalez-Muzzio, Victor Marchezini, Holmes Páez, Mittul Vahanvati, Dewald van NiekerkThis conversation presents the reflections from six international disaster scholars on how disaster capitalism manifested in very different ways in different countries…
Post-disaster research: challenges and opportunities conversation on disasters: deconstructed on 11th of June 2021
Sarah Beaven, Djillali Benouar, Mihir Bhatt, Terry Gibson, Lori PeekThis conversation presents the reflections from five prominent disaster scholars and practitioners on the opportunities and challenges associated with research following…
20 years of Radical Disaster Interpretations: reflections and aspirations (RADIX @ 20!). Conversation on disasters: deconstructed on 13 October 2021
Bob Alexander, Maureen Fordham, Rohit Jigyasu, Mayfourth Luneta, Ben WisnerThis conversation presents the reflections from five prominent disaster scholars and practitioners on the purpose of Radix – the Radical Disaster Interpretations network …
Intersectoral approaches: the key to mitigating psychosocial and health consequences of disasters and systemic risks
Anne-Sophie Gousse-Lessard, Philippe Gachon, Lily Lessard, Valérie Vermeulen, Maxime Boivin, Danielle Maltais, Elsa Landaverde, Mélissa Généreux, Bernard Motulsky, Julien Le BellerThe current pandemic and ongoing climate risks highlight the limited capacity of various systems, including health and social ones, to respond to population-scale and…
Reflexivity, habitus and vulnerability: Vietnamese farmers' attribution of responsibility in a post-disaster context
Kien Nguyen-TrungThis article examines how farmers' assignment of responsibility for the disaster in late 2015 – early 2016 connects with reflexivity, habitus and local vulnerability.
Post-disaster neoliberal normalization in the 1985, 2010 and 2015 Chilean earthquakes
Juan Saavedra, Catalina Alvarado-CañutaThis 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).
Toward development of comprehensive national disaster response plans: an evaluation of Nigeria's national disaster response plan, 2002
Sani Mashi, Kabir Idris, Isa Abubakar Yakubu KazaureDevelopment 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…
Post-disaster research: inspirational early career scholars transcript for the disasters: deconstructed livestream on 15 September 2021
Kaira Zoe Alburo-Cañete, Nnenia Campbell, Shefali Juneja Lakhina, Loïc Le Dé, María N. Rodríguez AlarcónThis conversation presents the reflections from four inspirational early career disaster scholars on the opportunities and challenges associated with post-disaster…
Toward a critical technical practice in disaster risk management: lessons from designing collaboration initiatives
David Lallemant, Rebecca Bicksler, Karen Barns, Perrine Hamel, Robert Soden, Steph BannisterDespite 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…
Reforming Australia's approach to hazards and disaster risk: national leadership, systems thinking, and inclusive conversations about vulnerability
Monica Buchtmann, Russell Wise, Deborah O'Connell, Mark Crosweller, Jillian EdwardsThere are many pragmatic challenges and complex interactions in the reduction of systemic disaster risk. No single agency has the mandate, authority, legitimacy or…
Addressing the interplay of the Sendai Framework with sustainable development goals in Latin America and the Caribbean: moving forward or going backwards?
Simone Lucatello, Irasema Alcántara-AyalaThe 2030 agenda for sustainable development and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (SFDRR) constitute an overarching global milestone for creating a better…
Macroeconomic co-benefits of DRR investment: assessment using the Dynamic Model of Multi-hazard Mitigation CoBenefits (DYNAMMICs) model
Muneta Yokomatsu, Junko Mochizuki, Julian Joseph, Peter Burek, Taher KahilThe 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…
Governing systemic and cascading disaster risk in Indonesia: where do we stand and future outlook
Annisa Triyanti, Gusti Ayu Ketut Surtiari, Jonatan Lassa, Irina Rafliana, Nuraini Rahma Hanifa, Mohamad Isnaeni Muhidin, Riyanti DjalanteThis 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…
Design and implementation of a relational model of risk communication
Raul P. Lejano, Ahmadul Haque, Laila Kabir, Muhammad Saidur Rahman, Miah Maye Pormon, Eulito CasasThe 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…
Managing systemic risk in emergency management, organizational resilience and climate change adaptation
Gianluca Pescaroli, Kristen Guida, Jeremy Reynolds, Roger S. Pulwarty, Igor Linkov, David E. AlexanderThis 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…
Development of disaster risk reduction policy in Thailand
Kaori KitagawaThis exploratory study discusses the policy learning process of the development of disaster risk reduction (DRR) policy.
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- Dr JC Gaillard
- Dr Emmanuel Raju
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