Disaster Prevention and Management: Volume 32 Issue 1

Guest editorial: GAR 2022 special issue: addressing systemic risk – the future of risk governance

Rhea Katsanakis

The social construction of systemic risk: towards an actionable framework for risk governance

Andrew Maskrey, Garima Jain, Allan Lavell

This 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 been…

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 Djalante

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…

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 Edwards

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…

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 Beller

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…

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 Bannister

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…

Design and implementation of a relational model of risk communication

Raul P. Lejano, Ahmadul Haque, Laila Kabir, Muhammad Saidur Rahman, Miah Maye Pormon, Eulito Casas

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…

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 Kahil

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…

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 Reichenbach

As stated in the United Nations Global Assessment Report 2022 Concept Note, decision-makers everywhere need data and statistics that are accurate, timely, sufficiently…

Integrating indigenous knowledge and state-of-the-art Earth observation solutions for the Sendai framework implementation

Milind Pimprikar, Myrna Cunningham, Shirish Ravan, Simon Lambert

Indigenous 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 solutions at…

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-Ayala

The 2030 agenda for sustainable development and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (SFDRR) constitute an overarching global milestone for creating a better…

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. Alexander

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…