The Ecovillage of Pescomaggiore (L ’Aquila)
Disaster Prevention and Management: An International Journal, Ahead of Print. Purpose The purpose of this paper is to aim at exploring the relationship between community building and the changes occurred in the context of a post-disaster self-built ecovillage (EcoVillaggio Autocostruito (EVA)), spontaneously born after the L ’Aquila earthquake in 2009. The community eventually dissolved in 2014, following a series of changes in the organization, that resulted in an increasingly centralized decision-making process, and in individual and community relationships, that were fueled by conflicts and contrasts. Design/meth od...
Source: Disaster Prevention and Management - June 9, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Dichotomies of disaster management: a reflection on the politics of efficient decision making
This study presents a unique perspective of disaster management and how it may shape the thinking and decision making of disaster management politics. (Source: Disaster Prevention and Management)
Source: Disaster Prevention and Management - June 9, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Resilience and resisting resilience: ethnographies in neoliberal L ’Aquila post-earthquake
Disaster Prevention and Management: An International Journal, Ahead of Print. Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze the relationships between neoliberal institutional management of the 2009 L ’Aquila earthquake and the local dwelling practices, which consequently originated in the new urban layout. Design/methodology/approach It presents itself as a post-catastrophe ethnography carried out from a specific approach, that is, the street ethnography that consists of collecting the pract ices and discourses of inhabitants, administrators, experts and commercial operators, which take place on or around the street....
Source: Disaster Prevention and Management - June 9, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Public perceptions of pre-incident information campaign materials for the initial response to a chemical incident
Disaster Prevention and Management: An International Journal, Ahead of Print. Purpose In the event of a hazardous chemical release incident in the UK, affected members of the public would undergo improvised and interim forms of decontamination (the “Initial Operational Response” (IOR)). To enable members of the public to take recommended actions quickly, the Home Office and National Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Centre have developed the “Remove, Remove, Remove” pre-incident information campaign. This is designed to ra ise awareness amongst a broad range of people with a public safety role, as wel...
Source: Disaster Prevention and Management - June 9, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
The Ecovillage of Pescomaggiore (L ’Aquila)
Disaster Prevention and Management: An International Journal, Ahead of Print. Purpose The purpose of this paper is to aim at exploring the relationship between community building and the changes occurred in the context of a post-disaster self-built ecovillage (EcoVillaggio Autocostruito (EVA)), spontaneously born after the L ’Aquila earthquake in 2009. The community eventually dissolved in 2014, following a series of changes in the organization, that resulted in an increasingly centralized decision-making process, and in individual and community relationships, that were fueled by conflicts and contrasts. Design/meth od...
Source: Disaster Prevention and Management - June 9, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Dichotomies of disaster management: a reflection on the politics of efficient decision making
This study presents a unique perspective of disaster management and how it may shape the thinking and decision making of disaster management politics. (Source: Disaster Prevention and Management)
Source: Disaster Prevention and Management - June 9, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Resilience and resisting resilience: ethnographies in neoliberal L ’Aquila post-earthquake
Disaster Prevention and Management: An International Journal, Ahead of Print. Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze the relationships between neoliberal institutional management of the 2009 L ’Aquila earthquake and the local dwelling practices, which consequently originated in the new urban layout. Design/methodology/approach It presents itself as a post-catastrophe ethnography carried out from a specific approach, that is, the street ethnography that consists of collecting the pract ices and discourses of inhabitants, administrators, experts and commercial operators, which take place on or around the street....
Source: Disaster Prevention and Management - June 9, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Sensemaking questions in crisis response teams
Disaster Prevention and Management: An International Journal, Ahead of Print. Purpose When a crisis strikes, responders need to make sense of it to gain an understanding of its origins, nature and implications. In this way, crisis sensemaking guides the implementation of the response. The purpose of this paper is to focus on the sensemaking questions that responders need to address for achieving effective and efficient crisis management. Design/methodology/approach Data are drawn from six exercises, in which teams of professionals from different crisis organizations were confronted with two terrorist attacks. Just like i...
Source: Disaster Prevention and Management - June 2, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Designing a Cultural Heritage Articulated Warning System (CHAWS) strategy to improve disaster risk preparedness in Brazil
Disaster Prevention and Management: An International Journal, Ahead of Print. Purpose The purpose of this paper is to study an articulated warning system that provides information about the heritage at risk and encourages a dialogue between the heritage sector, civil defense agencies and local communities. Design/methodology/approach The databases from the National Heritage Institute, National Civil Defense, National Geological Service and National Early Warning System were investigated and the local community provided input which helped form a participatory risk mapping strategy for a warning system in the heritage sect...
Source: Disaster Prevention and Management - May 27, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
A spatial and integrated flood risk diagnosis
Disaster Prevention and Management: An International Journal, Ahead of Print. Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify vulnerable areas for flood hazard and to analyze stakes exposed in touristic valley of Morrocan mountains. The three goals are: methodological (low-cost diagnosis without starting data), operational (to show the risk and identify avenues of prevention in Ourika) and incentive (to reproduce this on other sectors in Morocco). Design/methodology/approach The vulnerability of three areas of the Ourika valley (the most frequented) was assessed by a hydro-geomorphological study, human frequentation sur...
Source: Disaster Prevention and Management - May 12, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Resilience in Talcahuano, Chile: appraising local disaster response
Disaster Prevention and Management: An International Journal, Ahead of Print. Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present the findings of a qualitative and exploratory study aimed at learning more about the local forms of resilience that emerged in two localities (one rural and one urban locality) in Talcahuano, Chile, in response to the major earthquake and devastating tsunami that hit them on February 27, 2010. Design/methodology/approach To ensure that people ’s experiences remained leading throughout the study, data were collected in the field by the first author over a period of 13 months using a variety of qu...
Source: Disaster Prevention and Management - May 12, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
The fluidity of risk
This study encourages comprehension of risk as an evolving and fluid condition. (Source: Disaster Prevention and Management)
Source: Disaster Prevention and Management - May 12, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
A spatial and integrated flood risk diagnosis
Disaster Prevention and Management: An International Journal, Ahead of Print. Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify vulnerable areas for flood hazard and to analyze stakes exposed in touristic valley of Morrocan mountains. The three goals are: methodological (low-cost diagnosis without starting data), operational (to show the risk and identify avenues of prevention in Ourika) and incentive (to reproduce this on other sectors in Morocco). Design/methodology/approach The vulnerability of three areas of the Ourika valley (the most frequented) was assessed by a hydro-geomorphological study, human frequentation sur...
Source: Disaster Prevention and Management - May 12, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
