When disaster management agencies create disaster risk: a case study of the US's Federal Emergency Management Agency
This study is the first to examine disaster risk creation from an organizational perspective, and the first to focus explicitly on how disaster management agencies can shape risk creation. This helps understand the linkages between disaster risk creation, equity and organizations. (Source: Disaster Prevention and Management)
Source: Disaster Prevention and Management - September 27, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Aaron Clark-Ginsberg
Lena C. Easton-Calabria
Sonny S. Patel
Jay Balagna
Leslie A. Payne Source Type: research
Local perspectives on landslide prevention and management in Kalimpong district, West Bengal, India
Lochan Gurung, Peter McGowran
Disaster Prevention and Management, Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print, pp.-
This paper is joint reflection on the role of research assistants (RAs) in fieldwork for disaster risk research, particularly at the doctoral level. The paper has been co-authored by Gurung, who worked as a RA with the other author McGowran during his doctoral field research in Kalimpong from May 2019 to January 2020. The piece allows Gurung to voice his ideas on the research in a published research output and allows both authors to reflect on how the collaborative approach taken help...
Source: Disaster Prevention and Management - September 22, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Lochan Gurung
Peter McGowran Source Type: research
Expanding the transdisciplinary conversation towards pluriversal distributive disaster recovery: development ethics and interculturality
This article identifies that prevailing utilitarian ethics in emergency response, in addition to their problematic universalization, have prevented further engagement with deontological and process-based principles, including a nuanced distributive sensitivity. As a result of such cross-fertilization, methodological individualism in an intercultural encounter is suggested, as well as continued engagement with pluriversal deliberation about key ethical values and notions regarding disaster risk and response.
Calling for distributive bottom-up engagement beyond professional and academic boundaries, this article presents...
Source: Disaster Prevention and Management - September 13, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Johannes M. Waldm üller Source Type: research
“I thought I lost my home”: resource loss, distress and recovery after the Manaro Voui volcanic disaster on Ambae Island
Rachel Clissold, Karen Elizabeth McNamara, Ross Westoby, Ladonna Daniel, Elizabeth Raynes, Viviane Licht Obed
Disaster Prevention and Management, Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print, pp.-
This paper builds on existing studies by drawing on Conservation of Resources theory to explore the losses, psychological impacts as well as recovery processes of the 2017/18 volcanic disaster on Ambae Island, Vanuatu.
This discussion is based on local perspectives and personal accounts collected through a series of eight semi-structured interviews (five males and three females).
The volcanic act...
Source: Disaster Prevention and Management - August 30, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Rachel Clissold
Karen Elizabeth McNamara
Ross Westoby
Ladonna Daniel
Elizabeth Raynes
Viviane Licht Obed Source Type: research
Measuring resilience: by whom and for whom? A case study of people-centred resilience indicators in New Zealand
This study uses a radically different approach placing people at the centre of resilience measurement. (Source: Disaster Prevention and Management)
Source: Disaster Prevention and Management - July 8, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Lo ïc Le Dé
Karl Wairama
Monynna Sath
Anthony Petera Source Type: research
Gender mainstreaming in risk reduction and resilience-building strategies: local conceptualisation of gender and masculinities in Malawi and Zambia
Sizwile Khoza
Disaster Prevention and Management, Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print, pp.-
This paper aims to explore the local conceptualisation of gender and framings of men and masculinities at the local level, which may be applied to improve gender mainstreaming in smallholder farming.
Qualitative data were collected from a total of 70 key informants and community members knowledgeable about climate change and smallholder agriculture, disaster risks, gender and broader community issues in Malawi and Zambia. The thematic analysis was used to identify the themes emerging from the qu...
Source: Disaster Prevention and Management - June 24, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Sizwile Khoza Source Type: research
Graduate certificate in local development planning, land use management and disaster risk management: a knowledge, attitude and practice (KAP) evaluation
This study aims to assess knowledge retention of the graduates of the online graduate certificate on local development planning, land use management and disaster risk management (PDLOTGR, the abbreviation of the certificate's Spanish title). The certificate was offered to practitioners and faculty members of Latin American countries since 2016.
The authors reviewed the knowledge, attitude and practice (KAP) method to develop a specific approach, which included the preparation of a KAP survey, a composite KAP index and three sub-indices. The survey targeted two groups: (1) experimental group, composed of the certificat...
Source: Disaster Prevention and Management - June 15, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Juan Pablo Sarmiento Catalina Sarmiento Gabriela Hoberman Meenakshi Chabba Source Type: research
Participatory child-centered disaster risk reduction education: an innovative Chinese NGO program
Yi Lu, Lai Wei, Binxin Cao, Jianqiang Li
Disaster Prevention and Management, Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print, pp.-
Disaster risk reduction (DRR) researchers and practitioners have found that schools can play a critical role in DRR education, with many Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) developing initiatives to actively involve children in DRR education programs. This paper reports on a case study on an innovative Chinese NGO school-based program focused on participatory child-centered DRR (PCC-DRR) education, from which a PCC-DRR education framework was developed so that similar pro...
Source: Disaster Prevention and Management - June 9, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Yi Lu Lai Wei Binxin Cao Jianqiang Li Source Type: research
Stop going around in circles: towards a reconceptualisation of disaster risk management phases
Lee Bosher, Ksenia Chmutina, Dewald van Niekerk
Disaster Prevention and Management, Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print, pp.-
The way that disasters are managed, or indeed mis-managed, is often represented diagrammatically as a “disaster cycle”. The cyclical aspects of the disaster (risk) management concept, comprised of numerous operational phases, have, in recent years, been criticised for conceptualising and representing disasters in an overly simplistic way that typically starts with a disaster “event” – and subsequently leads onto yet another disaster. Such cyclical thinking ...
Source: Disaster Prevention and Management - May 19, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Lee Bosher Ksenia Chmutina Dewald van Niekerk Source Type: research
Emotional and behavioural responses to the 19 September 2017 earthquake: the case of the occupants of three multi-storey buildings
Jaime Santos-Reyes, Tatiana Gouzeva
Disaster Prevention and Management, Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print, pp.-
Studies on human behaviour during a seismic emergency in tall buildings are scant. During such emergencies, occupants need to reach a safe place. The purpose of this paper is to address some of the emotional and behavioural responses of the occupants of three multi-storey buildings during the 19 September earthquake that hit Mexico City in 2017.
A cross-sectional and non-probability study was conducted using a questionnaire-based survey; the sample size was n = 352, and t...
Source: Disaster Prevention and Management - May 4, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Jaime Santos-Reyes Tatiana Gouzeva Source Type: research
Participatory 3D model to promote intergenerational engagement for disaster risk reduction in S ão Luiz do Paraitinga, Brazil
The objective of this study was to investigate how participatory 3D mapping can promote local intergenerational engagement for disaster risk reduction.
This investigation was carried out in the city of São Luiz do Paraitinga, Brazil, where a low-cost participatory 3D model (P3DM) was used together with secondary methods (semi-structured interviews, round tables, discussions and presentations) to engage three local focus groups (the general public, high school employees and children) to visualize and interpret local hazards, vulnerabilities, capacities and risk mitigation measures.
Participants played with a 3D m...
Source: Disaster Prevention and Management - April 30, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Miguel Angel Trejo-Rangel Victor Marchezini Daniel Adres Rodriguez Melissa da Silva Oliveira Source Type: research
Learning in municipalities after disasters
This article thus contributes to the existing body of knowledge by studying learning processes following disasters at the local level. (Source: Disaster Prevention and Management)
Source: Disaster Prevention and Management - March 30, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Tore Betten Kristian Vian Pettersen Eirik Albrechtsen Source Type: research
Individualism and collectivism in small-scale fisheries post-3.11 Japan
This study examines fisheries affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami in 2011 to explore how the collectivism appears during the recovery process.
The author questions the context of collaboration after the disaster among independent small-scale fishers in Miyagi by conducting semistructured interviews with more than 50 local fishers with anthropological observations of boat fishing operations and using local documents and statistics.
The corresponding collaboration among the fishers after the disaster is not a mere “disaster utopia,” but is embedded in the socioecological context of fishing. ...
Source: Disaster Prevention and Management - March 26, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Hiroki Takakura Source Type: research
Educational experiences of children and youth with disabilities impacted by wildfires
This study identifies considerations for students with disabilities and their families post-disaster.
An inductive, qualitative approach was used for the study design, methodology and analysis. In-depth interviews were conducted with parents of 14 students with disabilities about their experiences during and following school closures. All of these children had missed between a week and over a month of school as a result of the wildfires. Thematic analysis was used to code data and identify four themes present across the data.
Our findings indicate that children and youth with disabilities experienced disruptions ...
Source: Disaster Prevention and Management - March 10, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Elizabeth McAdams Ducy Laura M. Stough Source Type: research
The disaster return-entry process: a discussion of issues, strategies and future research
Laura K. Siebeneck, Thomas J. Cova
Disaster Prevention and Management, Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print, pp.-
Return-entry is understudied in the disaster science literature. This paper provides an overview of the return-entry process, identifies key factors informing the selection of return strategy, proposes a simple classification of return strategies and offers ideas for advancing research in this area.
This paper explores previous research and recent return-entry processes in order to advance understanding of strategies emergency managers employ and decisions they make when man...
Source: Disaster Prevention and Management - January 26, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Laura K. Siebeneck Thomas J. Cova Source Type: research
