Disaster Prevention and ManagementTable of Contents for Disaster Prevention and Management. List of articles from the current issue, including Just Accepted (EarlyCite)https://www.emerald.com/insight/publication/issn/0965-3562/vol/33/iss/6?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=rss_journalLatestDisaster Prevention and ManagementEmerald Publishing LimitedDisaster Prevention and ManagementDisaster Prevention and Managementhttps://www.emerald.com/insight/proxy/containerImg?link=/resource/publication/journal/b13a703a2a5d0b16d3da129a34314b60/urn:emeraldgroup.com:asset:id:binary:dpm.cover.jpghttps://www.emerald.com/insight/publication/issn/0965-3562/vol/33/iss/6?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=rss_journalLatestThe distribution of Cyclone Idai’s water impacts in Beira, Mozambiquehttps://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/DPM-08-2023-0211/full/html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=rss_journalLatestClimate hazards in the form of cyclones are projected to become more intense under the pressures of future climate change. These changes represent a growing hazard to low lying coastal cities like Beira, Mozambique. In 2019, Beira experienced the devastating impact of Cyclone Idai. One of the many impacts resulting from this Cyclone was disrupted drinking water access. This investigation explores the distribution of Cyclone Idai’s impact on drinking water access via an environmental justice lens, exploring how preexisting water access characteristics may have predisposed households to the impacts of Cyclone Idai in Beria. Relying on household survey data collected in Beira, the investigation applied a decision tree algorithm to investigate how drinking water disruption was distributed across the household survey sample using these preexisting vulnerabilities. The investigation found that households that mainly relied upon piped water sources and experienced inconsistent access to water in the year prior to Cyclone Idai were more likely to experience disrupted drinking water access immediately after Cyclone Idai. The results indicate that residents in formal areas of Beira, largely reliant upon piped water supply, experienced higher rates of disrupted drinking water access following Cyclone Idai. These findings question a commonly held assumption that informal areas are more vulnerable to climate hazards, like cyclones, than formal areas of a city. The findings support the inclusion of informal settlements in the design of climate change adaptation strategies.The distribution of Cyclone Idai’s water impacts in Beira, Mozambique
Cameron McCordic, Ines Raimundo, Matthew Judyn, Duncan Willis
Disaster Prevention and Management, Vol. 33, No. 6, pp.1-15

Climate hazards in the form of cyclones are projected to become more intense under the pressures of future climate change. These changes represent a growing hazard to low lying coastal cities like Beira, Mozambique. In 2019, Beira experienced the devastating impact of Cyclone Idai. One of the many impacts resulting from this Cyclone was disrupted drinking water access. This investigation explores the distribution of Cyclone Idai’s impact on drinking water access via an environmental justice lens, exploring how preexisting water access characteristics may have predisposed households to the impacts of Cyclone Idai in Beria.

Relying on household survey data collected in Beira, the investigation applied a decision tree algorithm to investigate how drinking water disruption was distributed across the household survey sample using these preexisting vulnerabilities.

The investigation found that households that mainly relied upon piped water sources and experienced inconsistent access to water in the year prior to Cyclone Idai were more likely to experience disrupted drinking water access immediately after Cyclone Idai. The results indicate that residents in formal areas of Beira, largely reliant upon piped water supply, experienced higher rates of disrupted drinking water access following Cyclone Idai.

These findings question a commonly held assumption that informal areas are more vulnerable to climate hazards, like cyclones, than formal areas of a city. The findings support the inclusion of informal settlements in the design of climate change adaptation strategies.

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The distribution of Cyclone Idai’s water impacts in Beira, Mozambique10.1108/DPM-08-2023-0211Disaster Prevention and Management2024-01-03© 2023 Cameron McCordic, Ines Raimundo, Matthew Judyn and Duncan WillisCameron McCordicInes RaimundoMatthew JudynDuncan WillisDisaster Prevention and Management3362024-01-0310.1108/DPM-08-2023-0211https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/DPM-08-2023-0211/full/html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=rss_journalLatest© 2023 Cameron McCordic, Ines Raimundo, Matthew Judyn and Duncan Willishttp://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0/legalcode
Learning to manage the unexpected: applying Weick and Sutcliffe’s HRO principles to oil tanker accidentshttps://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/DPM-03-2023-0065/full/html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=rss_journalLatestWeick and Sutcliffe identified five principles that enable high-reliability organizations (HROs) to address environmental complexity and manage unexpected events. The current study aims to adopt this sensemaking perspective to analyze accidents within a typical HRO sector, namely maritime transport. Through a retrospective case study analysis, this study focused on seven oil tanker accidents, using them as illustrative examples. Findings show how the five principles contributed to the accidents' occurrence, explaining how failures in sensemaking affected the crew's capability to both prevent errors and cope with their consequences, thus leading to disasters. Overall, the study offers an applicative contribution showing how this model may provide a reliable framework for analyzing the psychosocial factors affecting an accident. This approach deepens the understanding of how latent factors are enacted and how the prevention and error management phases interrelate within a comprehensive flow of the entire accident sequence. Furthermore, the study emphasizes consistent patterns that emerge across multiple accidents within the same sector, in order to learn valuable lessons to improve safety measures in the future. This study constitutes an exemplary application in support of how Weick and Sutcliffe’s model is valuable for investigating HROs. It offers a second-order interpretative framework to understand accidents and underscores the interplay among these factors during the dynamic development of an accident.Learning to manage the unexpected: applying Weick and Sutcliffe’s HRO principles to oil tanker accidents
Bianca Amici, Maria Luisa Farnese
Disaster Prevention and Management, Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print, pp.-

Weick and Sutcliffe identified five principles that enable high-reliability organizations (HROs) to address environmental complexity and manage unexpected events. The current study aims to adopt this sensemaking perspective to analyze accidents within a typical HRO sector, namely maritime transport.

Through a retrospective case study analysis, this study focused on seven oil tanker accidents, using them as illustrative examples.

Findings show how the five principles contributed to the accidents' occurrence, explaining how failures in sensemaking affected the crew's capability to both prevent errors and cope with their consequences, thus leading to disasters.

Overall, the study offers an applicative contribution showing how this model may provide a reliable framework for analyzing the psychosocial factors affecting an accident. This approach deepens the understanding of how latent factors are enacted and how the prevention and error management phases interrelate within a comprehensive flow of the entire accident sequence. Furthermore, the study emphasizes consistent patterns that emerge across multiple accidents within the same sector, in order to learn valuable lessons to improve safety measures in the future.

This study constitutes an exemplary application in support of how Weick and Sutcliffe’s model is valuable for investigating HROs. It offers a second-order interpretative framework to understand accidents and underscores the interplay among these factors during the dynamic development of an accident.

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Learning to manage the unexpected: applying Weick and Sutcliffe’s HRO principles to oil tanker accidents10.1108/DPM-03-2023-0065Disaster Prevention and Management2023-12-25© 2023 Emerald Publishing LimitedBianca AmiciMaria Luisa FarneseDisaster Prevention and Managementahead-of-printahead-of-print2023-12-2510.1108/DPM-03-2023-0065https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/DPM-03-2023-0065/full/html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=rss_journalLatest© 2023 Emerald Publishing Limited
Projects for queering disaster: reciprocal knowledge exchange and practicehttps://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/DPM-04-2023-0069/full/html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=rss_journalLatestThe purpose of this study is to identify LGBTQ+ perceptions of and experiences with hazards, vulnerabilities and disasters in the San Francisco Bay Area in the USA and to co-develop applied projects to “queer” disaster knowledge production and risk reduction activities in the region. This is a community science project in which we collaborate with community members to enhance both community and scientific knowledge with the goal of utilizing it to produce a positive change to pressing social issues and their underlying causes. We do this through a series of four focus group workshops to identify community priorities, hazards, vulnerabilities and local action. We follow this with further ethnographic research and projects to apply findings from phase one. The authors have found that: LGBTQ+ people in the Bay Area have unique experiences with hazards, vulnerabilities and disasters; there are significant gaps in the representation of LGBTQ+ hazard exposure in local scientific models that we can address through alternative methodologies; and tabletop exercises, learning modules and podcasts help orient and train disaster response agencies and personnel on LGBTQ+ inclusive operations. This initiative entails novel approaches to community science for disaster risk reduction and creative collaboration with community-based organizations to foster the development of LGBTQ+ inclusive disaster risk reduction and response.Projects for queering disaster: reciprocal knowledge exchange and practice
A.J. Faas, Jhaid Parreno
Disaster Prevention and Management, Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print, pp.-

The purpose of this study is to identify LGBTQ+ perceptions of and experiences with hazards, vulnerabilities and disasters in the San Francisco Bay Area in the USA and to co-develop applied projects to “queer” disaster knowledge production and risk reduction activities in the region.

This is a community science project in which we collaborate with community members to enhance both community and scientific knowledge with the goal of utilizing it to produce a positive change to pressing social issues and their underlying causes. We do this through a series of four focus group workshops to identify community priorities, hazards, vulnerabilities and local action. We follow this with further ethnographic research and projects to apply findings from phase one.

The authors have found that: LGBTQ+ people in the Bay Area have unique experiences with hazards, vulnerabilities and disasters; there are significant gaps in the representation of LGBTQ+ hazard exposure in local scientific models that we can address through alternative methodologies; and tabletop exercises, learning modules and podcasts help orient and train disaster response agencies and personnel on LGBTQ+ inclusive operations.

This initiative entails novel approaches to community science for disaster risk reduction and creative collaboration with community-based organizations to foster the development of LGBTQ+ inclusive disaster risk reduction and response.

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Projects for queering disaster: reciprocal knowledge exchange and practice10.1108/DPM-04-2023-0069Disaster Prevention and Management2024-03-18© 2024 Emerald Publishing LimitedA.J. FaasJhaid ParrenoDisaster Prevention and Managementahead-of-printahead-of-print2024-03-1810.1108/DPM-04-2023-0069https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/DPM-04-2023-0069/full/html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=rss_journalLatest© 2024 Emerald Publishing Limited
Pacific methodologies in critical disaster studieshttps://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/DPM-05-2023-0124/full/html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=rss_journalLatestResearch in critical disaster studies stresses the urgency to explore alternative ontological framings (Gaillard and Raju, 2022) that encourages researchers and practitioners, especially Indigenous communities, to nurture spaces where Indigenous voices are well represented. It is imperative that research in the Pacific should be guided by Pacific research methodologies to maximize positive outcomes (Ponton, 2018) and break free from limited Eurocentric ideologies that are often ill-suited in Pacific contexts. Hazards in the South Pacific region have become more frequent and volatile. This has created a growing interest in the study of disasters in the region. However, current disaster studies in the Pacific are often problematic as they often fail to challenge the implicit coloniality of the discipline. This paper will expand on these arguments, suggesting ways to overcome the limits of common Eurocentric research frameworks in disaster studies and to illustrate the significance and relevance of Pacific methodologies. It is pertinent that critical disaster studies encapsulate Pacific worldviews and knowledge as valued and valid to reconstruct Pacific research. Decolonizing disaster research will ultimately liberate the discipline from limitations of its colonial past and allow for truly engaging and critical research practices. This paper will illustrate and articulate how Talanoa, a pan-Pacific concept, could offer a more culturally appropriate research methodology to disasters, seen through a Samoan lens. Talanoa is an informal conversation that is widely shared among Pacific communities based on pure, authentic and real conversations which are crucial elements in building relationships with Pacific communities (Vaioleti, 2006).Pacific methodologies in critical disaster studies
Maria Koreti Sang Yum, Roger C. Baars
Disaster Prevention and Management, Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print, pp.-

Research in critical disaster studies stresses the urgency to explore alternative ontological framings (Gaillard and Raju, 2022) that encourages researchers and practitioners, especially Indigenous communities, to nurture spaces where Indigenous voices are well represented. It is imperative that research in the Pacific should be guided by Pacific research methodologies to maximize positive outcomes (Ponton, 2018) and break free from limited Eurocentric ideologies that are often ill-suited in Pacific contexts. Hazards in the South Pacific region have become more frequent and volatile. This has created a growing interest in the study of disasters in the region. However, current disaster studies in the Pacific are often problematic as they often fail to challenge the implicit coloniality of the discipline.

This paper will expand on these arguments, suggesting ways to overcome the limits of common Eurocentric research frameworks in disaster studies and to illustrate the significance and relevance of Pacific methodologies.

It is pertinent that critical disaster studies encapsulate Pacific worldviews and knowledge as valued and valid to reconstruct Pacific research. Decolonizing disaster research will ultimately liberate the discipline from limitations of its colonial past and allow for truly engaging and critical research practices.

This paper will illustrate and articulate how Talanoa, a pan-Pacific concept, could offer a more culturally appropriate research methodology to disasters, seen through a Samoan lens. Talanoa is an informal conversation that is widely shared among Pacific communities based on pure, authentic and real conversations which are crucial elements in building relationships with Pacific communities (Vaioleti, 2006).

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Pacific methodologies in critical disaster studies10.1108/DPM-05-2023-0124Disaster Prevention and Management2023-11-14© 2023 Emerald Publishing LimitedMaria Koreti Sang YumRoger C. BaarsDisaster Prevention and Managementahead-of-printahead-of-print2023-11-1410.1108/DPM-05-2023-0124https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/DPM-05-2023-0124/full/html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=rss_journalLatest© 2023 Emerald Publishing Limited
Assembling fire: beyond engineering solutionshttps://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/DPM-05-2023-0126/full/html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=rss_journalLatestFires have the potential to destroy, resulting in the loss of property and livelihoods, as well as injury, death and repeated trauma for those who are already vulnerable. However, fire as a hazard has been treated rigidly and un-critically, a model that has influenced how it is perceived by policy makers, first responders, engineers and academics and subsequently approaches to implementing and better understanding fire prevention, mitigation, response and recovery from the impacts of fire. This article deals with fire, arguing that its case can help imagine what liberation might mean within and for disaster studies. The study argues against dogmatic, outdated, technological and solution-focused perspectives that have constrained how fire and its effects are understood and discuss what disciplinary liberation could mean for the study of fire and its integration within DRR. The study’s approach is based on the DRR Assemblage Theory, which points to fire as an issue at a societal level. The study explores the themes of fire and liberation through contributions and insights that have emerged through the authors' professional experience in research and practice. It offers an original and timely engagement with disaster studies through the lens of fire, an increasingly pertinent phenomenon for disaster scholars and practitioners alike. By drawing on the example of fire as a socio-technical-environmental phenomenon, this paper contributes a novel perspective on the intellectual and practical possibilities that can emerge from disciplinary liberation.Assembling fire: beyond engineering solutions
Sandra Vaiciulyte, Helen Underhill, Elizabeth Reddy
Disaster Prevention and Management, Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print, pp.-

Fires have the potential to destroy, resulting in the loss of property and livelihoods, as well as injury, death and repeated trauma for those who are already vulnerable. However, fire as a hazard has been treated rigidly and un-critically, a model that has influenced how it is perceived by policy makers, first responders, engineers and academics and subsequently approaches to implementing and better understanding fire prevention, mitigation, response and recovery from the impacts of fire.

This article deals with fire, arguing that its case can help imagine what liberation might mean within and for disaster studies. The study argues against dogmatic, outdated, technological and solution-focused perspectives that have constrained how fire and its effects are understood and discuss what disciplinary liberation could mean for the study of fire and its integration within DRR. The study’s approach is based on the DRR Assemblage Theory, which points to fire as an issue at a societal level.

The study explores the themes of fire and liberation through contributions and insights that have emerged through the authors' professional experience in research and practice. It offers an original and timely engagement with disaster studies through the lens of fire, an increasingly pertinent phenomenon for disaster scholars and practitioners alike.

By drawing on the example of fire as a socio-technical-environmental phenomenon, this paper contributes a novel perspective on the intellectual and practical possibilities that can emerge from disciplinary liberation.

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Assembling fire: beyond engineering solutions10.1108/DPM-05-2023-0126Disaster Prevention and Management2023-12-19© 2023 Emerald Publishing LimitedSandra VaiciulyteHelen UnderhillElizabeth ReddyDisaster Prevention and Managementahead-of-printahead-of-print2023-12-1910.1108/DPM-05-2023-0126https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/DPM-05-2023-0126/full/html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=rss_journalLatest© 2023 Emerald Publishing Limited
The potential for community-driven ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction in South Asia: a literature reviewhttps://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/DPM-06-2023-0128/full/html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=rss_journalLatestThe paper reviews existing literature on South Asian ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction (DRR) and identifies how community participation can be used to plan and implement ecosystem-based DRR approaches. The literature review methodology involved several stages. Firstly, the research objective was determined. Secondly keywords for the literature search were determined. Scopus, Google Scholar, JSTOR and AUT online library were utilized for the literature search. After the search, the literature was screened. The study design, methodology, results and limitations were identified and documented. After data extraction, the literature was analyzed. The patterns, trends and inconsistencies in the literature were identified based on the research question. Later the gaps, controversies and future research needs were identified. Then, a comprehensive and structured literature review that summarizes the relevant literature, synthesizes the findings and provides a critical evaluation of the literature was documented. After writing the document, it was reviewed and edited to ensure its clarity, accuracy and coherence. The paper identifies four different themes recurrently emerging in literature on the importance of community participation in ecosystem-based DRR in South Asia. The themes are local community participation in ecosystem-based DRR governance, knowledge production, livelihood enhancement and increased public acceptance. The paper also illustrates the challenges in integrating community participation with the dominant physical scientific approaches ecosystem-based DRR and proposes a five-element framework to facilitate the integration.The potential for community-driven ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction in South Asia: a literature review
Damithri Chathumani Lansakara, Loic Le De, Michael Petterson, Deepthi Wickramasinghe
Disaster Prevention and Management, Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print, pp.-

The paper reviews existing literature on South Asian ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction (DRR) and identifies how community participation can be used to plan and implement ecosystem-based DRR approaches.

The literature review methodology involved several stages. Firstly, the research objective was determined. Secondly keywords for the literature search were determined. Scopus, Google Scholar, JSTOR and AUT online library were utilized for the literature search. After the search, the literature was screened. The study design, methodology, results and limitations were identified and documented. After data extraction, the literature was analyzed. The patterns, trends and inconsistencies in the literature were identified based on the research question. Later the gaps, controversies and future research needs were identified. Then, a comprehensive and structured literature review that summarizes the relevant literature, synthesizes the findings and provides a critical evaluation of the literature was documented. After writing the document, it was reviewed and edited to ensure its clarity, accuracy and coherence.

The paper identifies four different themes recurrently emerging in literature on the importance of community participation in ecosystem-based DRR in South Asia. The themes are local community participation in ecosystem-based DRR governance, knowledge production, livelihood enhancement and increased public acceptance.

The paper also illustrates the challenges in integrating community participation with the dominant physical scientific approaches ecosystem-based DRR and proposes a five-element framework to facilitate the integration.

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The potential for community-driven ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction in South Asia: a literature review10.1108/DPM-06-2023-0128Disaster Prevention and Management2023-12-26© 2023 Emerald Publishing LimitedDamithri Chathumani LansakaraLoic Le DeMichael PettersonDeepthi WickramasingheDisaster Prevention and Managementahead-of-printahead-of-print2023-12-2610.1108/DPM-06-2023-0128https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/DPM-06-2023-0128/full/html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=rss_journalLatest© 2023 Emerald Publishing Limited
Co-production revisited: from knowledge plurality to action for disaster risk reductionhttps://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/DPM-06-2023-0131/full/html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=rss_journalLatestThe authors revisit the notion of co-production, highlight more critical and re-politicized forms of co-production and introduce three principles for its operationalization. The paper’s viewpoint aims to find entry points for enabling more equitable disaster research and actions via co-production. The authors draw insights from the authors’ reflections as climate and disaster researchers and literature on knowledge politics in the context of disaster and climate change, especially within critical disaster studies and feminist political ecology. Disaster studies can better contribute to disaster risk reduction via political co-production and situating local and Indigenous knowledge at the center through three principles, i.e. ensuring knowledge plurality, surfacing norms and assumptions in knowledge production and driving actions that tackle existing knowledge (and broader sociopolitical) structures. The authors draw out three principles to enable the political function of co-production based on firsthand experiences of working with local and Indigenous peoples and insights from a diverse set of co-production, feminist political ecology and critical disaster studies literature. Future research can observe how it can utilize these principles in its respective contexts.Co-production revisited: from knowledge plurality to action for disaster risk reduction
Minh Tran, Dayoon Kim
Disaster Prevention and Management, Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print, pp.-

The authors revisit the notion of co-production, highlight more critical and re-politicized forms of co-production and introduce three principles for its operationalization. The paper’s viewpoint aims to find entry points for enabling more equitable disaster research and actions via co-production.

The authors draw insights from the authors’ reflections as climate and disaster researchers and literature on knowledge politics in the context of disaster and climate change, especially within critical disaster studies and feminist political ecology.

Disaster studies can better contribute to disaster risk reduction via political co-production and situating local and Indigenous knowledge at the center through three principles, i.e. ensuring knowledge plurality, surfacing norms and assumptions in knowledge production and driving actions that tackle existing knowledge (and broader sociopolitical) structures.

The authors draw out three principles to enable the political function of co-production based on firsthand experiences of working with local and Indigenous peoples and insights from a diverse set of co-production, feminist political ecology and critical disaster studies literature. Future research can observe how it can utilize these principles in its respective contexts.

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Co-production revisited: from knowledge plurality to action for disaster risk reduction10.1108/DPM-06-2023-0131Disaster Prevention and Management2023-12-05© 2023 Emerald Publishing LimitedMinh TranDayoon KimDisaster Prevention and Managementahead-of-printahead-of-print2023-12-0510.1108/DPM-06-2023-0131https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/DPM-06-2023-0131/full/html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=rss_journalLatest© 2023 Emerald Publishing Limited
The promises and pitfalls of disaster aid platforms: a case study of Lebanon’s 3RFhttps://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/DPM-06-2023-0133/full/html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=rss_journalLatestUsing critical disaster studies and state theory, we assess the disaster aid platform named Lebanon Reconstruction, Reform and Recovery Framework (3RF) that was put in place by international donors in the aftermath of the Beirut Port Blast in August 2020, in order to examine the effectiveness of its inclusive decision-making architecture, as well as its institutional building and legislative reform efforts. The paper uses the case study approaach and relies on two original data sets compiled by authors, using desk reviews of academic literature and secondary data, in addition to 24 semi-structured expert interviews and participant observation for two years. The aid platform appears innovative, participatory and effectively functioning toward recovery and reform. However, in practice, the government dismisses CSOs, undermines reforms and dodges state building, whereas the 3RF is structured in incoherent ways and operates according to conflicting logics, generating inertia and pitfalls that hinder effective participatory governance, prevent institutional building, and delay the making of projects. The research contributes to critical scholarship as it addresses an important research gap concerning disaster aid platforms’ institutional design and governance that are under-studied in critical disaster studies and political studies. It also highlights the need for critical disaster studies to engage with state theory and vice-versa. The research contributes to evaluations of disaster recovery processes and outcomes. It highlights the limits of disaster aid platforms’ claims for participatory decision-making, institutional-building and reforms. The paper amplifies critical disaster studies, through the reflexive analysis of a case-study of an aid platform.The promises and pitfalls of disaster aid platforms: a case study of Lebanon’s 3RF
Mona Harb, Sophie Bloemeke, Sami Atallah, Sami Zoughaib
Disaster Prevention and Management, Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print, pp.-

Using critical disaster studies and state theory, we assess the disaster aid platform named Lebanon Reconstruction, Reform and Recovery Framework (3RF) that was put in place by international donors in the aftermath of the Beirut Port Blast in August 2020, in order to examine the effectiveness of its inclusive decision-making architecture, as well as its institutional building and legislative reform efforts.

The paper uses the case study approaach and relies on two original data sets compiled by authors, using desk reviews of academic literature and secondary data, in addition to 24 semi-structured expert interviews and participant observation for two years.

The aid platform appears innovative, participatory and effectively functioning toward recovery and reform. However, in practice, the government dismisses CSOs, undermines reforms and dodges state building, whereas the 3RF is structured in incoherent ways and operates according to conflicting logics, generating inertia and pitfalls that hinder effective participatory governance, prevent institutional building, and delay the making of projects.

The research contributes to critical scholarship as it addresses an important research gap concerning disaster aid platforms’ institutional design and governance that are under-studied in critical disaster studies and political studies. It also highlights the need for critical disaster studies to engage with state theory and vice-versa.

The research contributes to evaluations of disaster recovery processes and outcomes. It highlights the limits of disaster aid platforms’ claims for participatory decision-making, institutional-building and reforms.

The paper amplifies critical disaster studies, through the reflexive analysis of a case-study of an aid platform.

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The promises and pitfalls of disaster aid platforms: a case study of Lebanon’s 3RF10.1108/DPM-06-2023-0133Disaster Prevention and Management2024-03-26© 2024 Emerald Publishing LimitedMona HarbSophie BloemekeSami AtallahSami ZoughaibDisaster Prevention and Managementahead-of-printahead-of-print2024-03-2610.1108/DPM-06-2023-0133https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/DPM-06-2023-0133/full/html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=rss_journalLatest© 2024 Emerald Publishing Limited
Disasters “Through the looking glass”https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/DPM-06-2023-0134/full/html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=rss_journalLatestThis paper will challenge normative disaster studies and practice by arguing that thriving communities require the pursuit of imperfection and solidarity. The authors use Lewis Carroll’s Looking-Glass World as a lens to critique both how disasters are understood, and how disaster researchers and practitioners operate, within a climate-change affected world where cultural, political and historical constructs are constantly shifting. The paper will undertake an analysis of both disasters and disaster studies, using this unique (and satirical) critical lens, looking at the unfolding of systemic mistakes, oppressions and mal-development that are revealed in contemporary disasters, that were once the critiques of Lewis Carroll’s Victorian-era England. It shows how disaster “resilience-building” can actually be a mechanism for continuing the status quo, and how persistent colonizing institutions and systems can be in reproducing themselves. The authors argue the liberation of disaster studies as a process of challenging the doctrines and paradigms that have been created and given meaning by those in power – particularly white, Western/Northern/Eurocentric, male power. They suggest how researchers and practitioners might view disasters – and their own praxis – Through the Looking Glass in an effort to better understand the power, domination and violence of the status quo, but also as a means of creating a vision for something better, arguing that liberation is possible through community-led action grounded in love, solidarity, difference and interconnection. The paper uses a novel conceptual lens as a way to challenge researchers and practitioners to avoid the utopic trap that wishes to achieve homogenized perfection and instead find an “imperfect” and complex adaptation that moves toward justice. Considering this idea through satire and literary criticism will lend support to empirical research that makes a similar case using data.Disasters “Through the looking glass”
Jason Von Meding, Carla Brisotto, Haleh Mehdipour, Colin Lasch
Disaster Prevention and Management, Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print, pp.-

This paper will challenge normative disaster studies and practice by arguing that thriving communities require the pursuit of imperfection and solidarity. The authors use Lewis Carroll’s Looking-Glass World as a lens to critique both how disasters are understood, and how disaster researchers and practitioners operate, within a climate-change affected world where cultural, political and historical constructs are constantly shifting.

The paper will undertake an analysis of both disasters and disaster studies, using this unique (and satirical) critical lens, looking at the unfolding of systemic mistakes, oppressions and mal-development that are revealed in contemporary disasters, that were once the critiques of Lewis Carroll’s Victorian-era England. It shows how disaster “resilience-building” can actually be a mechanism for continuing the status quo, and how persistent colonizing institutions and systems can be in reproducing themselves.

The authors argue the liberation of disaster studies as a process of challenging the doctrines and paradigms that have been created and given meaning by those in power – particularly white, Western/Northern/Eurocentric, male power. They suggest how researchers and practitioners might view disasters – and their own praxis – Through the Looking Glass in an effort to better understand the power, domination and violence of the status quo, but also as a means of creating a vision for something better, arguing that liberation is possible through community-led action grounded in love, solidarity, difference and interconnection.

The paper uses a novel conceptual lens as a way to challenge researchers and practitioners to avoid the utopic trap that wishes to achieve homogenized perfection and instead find an “imperfect” and complex adaptation that moves toward justice. Considering this idea through satire and literary criticism will lend support to empirical research that makes a similar case using data.

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Disasters “Through the looking glass”10.1108/DPM-06-2023-0134Disaster Prevention and Management2023-12-29© 2023 Emerald Publishing LimitedJason Von MedingCarla BrisottoHaleh MehdipourColin LaschDisaster Prevention and Managementahead-of-printahead-of-print2023-12-2910.1108/DPM-06-2023-0134https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/DPM-06-2023-0134/full/html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=rss_journalLatest© 2023 Emerald Publishing Limited
“Respect existence or expect ?” epistemic reflexivity towards liberated disaster studieshttps://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/DPM-06-2023-0135/full/html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=rss_journalLatestThis paper proposes a way of reflexing on how we think within critical disaster studies. It focuses on the biases and unthought dimensions of two concepts – resilience and development – and reflects on the relationship between theory and practice in critical disaster studies. Premised on the idea of epistemic reflexivity developed by Pierre Bourdieu, and drawing on previous research, this theoretical article analyses two conceptual biases and shortcomings of disaster studies: how resilience builds on certain agency; and how development assumes certain political imagination. The article argues that critical disaster scholars must reflect on their own intellectual practice, including the origin of concepts and what they do. This is exemplified by a description of how the idea of resistance is intimately connected to that of resilience, and by showing that we must go beyond the capitalist realism that typically underlies development and risk creation. The theoretical advancement of our field can provide ways of thinking about the premises of many of our concepts. The paper offers an invitation for disaster researchers to engage with critical thought and meta-theoretical reflexions. To think profoundly about our concepts is a necessary first step to developing critical scholarship. Epistemic reflexivity in critical disaster studies therefore provides an interesting avenue by which to liberate the field from overly technocratic approaches and develop its own criticality.“Respect existence or expect ?” epistemic reflexivity towards liberated disaster studies
Ricardo Fuentealba
Disaster Prevention and Management, Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print, pp.-

This paper proposes a way of reflexing on how we think within critical disaster studies. It focuses on the biases and unthought dimensions of two concepts – resilience and development – and reflects on the relationship between theory and practice in critical disaster studies.

Premised on the idea of epistemic reflexivity developed by Pierre Bourdieu, and drawing on previous research, this theoretical article analyses two conceptual biases and shortcomings of disaster studies: how resilience builds on certain agency; and how development assumes certain political imagination.

The article argues that critical disaster scholars must reflect on their own intellectual practice, including the origin of concepts and what they do. This is exemplified by a description of how the idea of resistance is intimately connected to that of resilience, and by showing that we must go beyond the capitalist realism that typically underlies development and risk creation. The theoretical advancement of our field can provide ways of thinking about the premises of many of our concepts.

The paper offers an invitation for disaster researchers to engage with critical thought and meta-theoretical reflexions. To think profoundly about our concepts is a necessary first step to developing critical scholarship. Epistemic reflexivity in critical disaster studies therefore provides an interesting avenue by which to liberate the field from overly technocratic approaches and develop its own criticality.

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“Respect existence or expect ?” epistemic reflexivity towards liberated disaster studies10.1108/DPM-06-2023-0135Disaster Prevention and Management2024-02-05© 2024 Emerald Publishing LimitedRicardo FuentealbaDisaster Prevention and Managementahead-of-printahead-of-print2024-02-0510.1108/DPM-06-2023-0135https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/DPM-06-2023-0135/full/html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=rss_journalLatest© 2024 Emerald Publishing Limited
Extractivism and the engendering of disasters: disaster risk creation in the era of the Anthropocenehttps://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/DPM-06-2023-0146/full/html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=rss_journalLatestThis paper argues that extractivist logic creates the environmental conditions that produce “natural” hazards and also the human conditions that produce vulnerability, which combined create disasters. Disaster Risk Creation is then built into the current global socio-economic system, as an integral component not accidental by-product. As part of the movement to liberate disasters as discipline, practice and field of enquiry, this paper does not talk disasters per se, but rather its focus is on “extractivism” as a fundamental explanator for the anthropogenic disaster landscape that now confronts us. Applying a gender lens to extractivism as it relates to disaster, further highlights that Disaster Risk Management rather than alleviating, creates the problems it seeks to solve, suggesting the need to liberate gender from Disaster Risk Management, and the need to liberate us all from the notion of managing disasters. Since to ‘manage’ disaster risk is to accept uncritically the structures and systems that create that risk, then if we truly want to address disasters, our focus needs to be on the extractive practices, not the disastrous outcomes. The fundamental argument is that through privileging the notion of “disaster” we create it, bring it into existence, as something that exists in and of itself, apart from wider socio-economic structures and systems of extraction and exploitation, rather than recognising it for what it is, an outcome/end product of those wider structures and systems. Our focus on disaster is then misplaced, and perhaps what disaster studies needs to be liberated from, is itself.Extractivism and the engendering of disasters: disaster risk creation in the era of the Anthropocene
Sarah Bradshaw
Disaster Prevention and Management, Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print, pp.-

This paper argues that extractivist logic creates the environmental conditions that produce “natural” hazards and also the human conditions that produce vulnerability, which combined create disasters. Disaster Risk Creation is then built into the current global socio-economic system, as an integral component not accidental by-product.

As part of the movement to liberate disasters as discipline, practice and field of enquiry, this paper does not talk disasters per se, but rather its focus is on “extractivism” as a fundamental explanator for the anthropogenic disaster landscape that now confronts us.

Applying a gender lens to extractivism as it relates to disaster, further highlights that Disaster Risk Management rather than alleviating, creates the problems it seeks to solve, suggesting the need to liberate gender from Disaster Risk Management, and the need to liberate us all from the notion of managing disasters. Since to ‘manage’ disaster risk is to accept uncritically the structures and systems that create that risk, then if we truly want to address disasters, our focus needs to be on the extractive practices, not the disastrous outcomes.

The fundamental argument is that through privileging the notion of “disaster” we create it, bring it into existence, as something that exists in and of itself, apart from wider socio-economic structures and systems of extraction and exploitation, rather than recognising it for what it is, an outcome/end product of those wider structures and systems. Our focus on disaster is then misplaced, and perhaps what disaster studies needs to be liberated from, is itself.

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Extractivism and the engendering of disasters: disaster risk creation in the era of the Anthropocene10.1108/DPM-06-2023-0146Disaster Prevention and Management2024-03-29© 2024 Emerald Publishing LimitedSarah BradshawDisaster Prevention and Managementahead-of-printahead-of-print2024-03-2910.1108/DPM-06-2023-0146https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/DPM-06-2023-0146/full/html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=rss_journalLatest© 2024 Emerald Publishing Limited
Why are you in disaster studies? Liberating future scholars from oppressive disaster sciencehttps://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/DPM-06-2023-0150/full/html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=rss_journalLatestThe question of “why we are in disaster studies” can be essential to reflect on discourses and practices – as students, researchers and professors – in constituting an oppressive disaster science and finding ways to liberate from it. This paper is based on autobiographical research and institutional ethnography to observe and analyze the discourses and practices about career trajectories as students, researchers and professors in disaster studies. The paper provides some categories, concepts, theoretical approaches and lived experiences helpful for discussing ways of liberating disaster studies, such as public sociology of disaster. Few papers have focused on professional trajectories in disaster studies, bringing insights from public sociology and questioning oppressive disaster science.Why are you in disaster studies? Liberating future scholars from oppressive disaster science
Victor Marchezini
Disaster Prevention and Management, Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print, pp.-

The question of “why we are in disaster studies” can be essential to reflect on discourses and practices – as students, researchers and professors – in constituting an oppressive disaster science and finding ways to liberate from it.

This paper is based on autobiographical research and institutional ethnography to observe and analyze the discourses and practices about career trajectories as students, researchers and professors in disaster studies.

The paper provides some categories, concepts, theoretical approaches and lived experiences helpful for discussing ways of liberating disaster studies, such as public sociology of disaster.

Few papers have focused on professional trajectories in disaster studies, bringing insights from public sociology and questioning oppressive disaster science.

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Why are you in disaster studies? Liberating future scholars from oppressive disaster science10.1108/DPM-06-2023-0150Disaster Prevention and Management2023-11-21© 2023 Emerald Publishing LimitedVictor MarcheziniDisaster Prevention and Managementahead-of-printahead-of-print2023-11-2110.1108/DPM-06-2023-0150https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/DPM-06-2023-0150/full/html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=rss_journalLatest© 2023 Emerald Publishing Limited
Problems and promises of postmodernism in (re)liberating disaster studieshttps://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/DPM-06-2023-0153/full/html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=rss_journalLatestThis paper is a critique of Western modernity and the problems and promises of postmodernism in (re)liberating disaster studies. It criticizes metanarratives and grand theories of Western discourses to advance postmodern discourses in disaster studies. This paper outlines a conceptual domain through which approaches of postmodernism can be employed to (re)liberate disaster studies. Metanarratives and grand theories frame the scope and focus of disaster studies. But the increasing number and the aggravated impacts of disasters and environmental challenges in the late 20th and early 21st centuries are proofs that our current “frames” do not capture the complexities of disasters. Postmodernism, in its diversity and various meanings, offers critical and complementary perspectives and approaches to capture the previously neglected dimensions of disasters. Postmodernism offers ways forward to (re)liberate disaster studies through ontological pluralism, epistemological diversity and hybridity of knowledge. The agenda of postmodernism in disaster studies is proposed in terms of the focus of inquiry, ontological and epistemological positionalities, research paradigm, methodologies and societal goals.Problems and promises of postmodernism in (re)liberating disaster studies
Jake Rom Cadag
Disaster Prevention and Management, Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print, pp.-

This paper is a critique of Western modernity and the problems and promises of postmodernism in (re)liberating disaster studies. It criticizes metanarratives and grand theories of Western discourses to advance postmodern discourses in disaster studies.

This paper outlines a conceptual domain through which approaches of postmodernism can be employed to (re)liberate disaster studies.

Metanarratives and grand theories frame the scope and focus of disaster studies. But the increasing number and the aggravated impacts of disasters and environmental challenges in the late 20th and early 21st centuries are proofs that our current “frames” do not capture the complexities of disasters. Postmodernism, in its diversity and various meanings, offers critical and complementary perspectives and approaches to capture the previously neglected dimensions of disasters.

Postmodernism offers ways forward to (re)liberate disaster studies through ontological pluralism, epistemological diversity and hybridity of knowledge.

The agenda of postmodernism in disaster studies is proposed in terms of the focus of inquiry, ontological and epistemological positionalities, research paradigm, methodologies and societal goals.

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Problems and promises of postmodernism in (re)liberating disaster studies10.1108/DPM-06-2023-0153Disaster Prevention and Management2024-03-19© 2024 Emerald Publishing LimitedJake Rom CadagDisaster Prevention and Managementahead-of-printahead-of-print2024-03-1910.1108/DPM-06-2023-0153https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/DPM-06-2023-0153/full/html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=rss_journalLatest© 2024 Emerald Publishing Limited
Categorising potential non-disastershttps://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/DPM-07-2023-0156/full/html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=rss_journalLatestThis short paper builds on and critiques work presenting potential non-disasters: disasters that did not seem to happen despite a major hazard. Previous work does not differentiate among different types of potential non-disasters. This short paper uses local information to propose three categories according to reasons for vulnerability being low or absent. These proposed categories are used to critique the construct of “potential non-disasters”. This short paper uses a subjective approach to examples of potential non-disasters in 2022, focusing on local information that describes what happened. This information is applied and analysed for the three proposed categories using examples from Japan, Nepal, the Philippines and Vietnam. Such comparisons are useful for critiquing “potential non-disasters”, by understanding better local approaches and information available for reporting on situations that could be disasters. Potential non-disasters remain relevant for exploring mechanisms, tools and actions for educating about vulnerability causes and vulnerability reduction to avert disasters. Limitations are evident by relying on media reports, even local ones with local authors. A suggestion is to implement a grant programme for collecting data immediately after a major hazard without an evident, major disaster. Additionally, an annual report and critique of each year's potential non-disasters, categorised and analysed, would help to evidence the presence and limits of the “potential non-disaster” construct. This short paper contributes a much deeper theoretical dive into understanding potential non-disasters, both describing them and the drawbacks of the construct. To practitioners, the construct now offers more avenues for actions while illustrating their effectiveness in reducing vulnerabilities. Thus, this paper supports multiple, linked pathways towards more non-disasters.Categorising potential non-disasters
Brady Podloski, Ilan Kelman
Disaster Prevention and Management, Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print, pp.-

This short paper builds on and critiques work presenting potential non-disasters: disasters that did not seem to happen despite a major hazard. Previous work does not differentiate among different types of potential non-disasters. This short paper uses local information to propose three categories according to reasons for vulnerability being low or absent. These proposed categories are used to critique the construct of “potential non-disasters”.

This short paper uses a subjective approach to examples of potential non-disasters in 2022, focusing on local information that describes what happened. This information is applied and analysed for the three proposed categories using examples from Japan, Nepal, the Philippines and Vietnam. Such comparisons are useful for critiquing “potential non-disasters”, by understanding better local approaches and information available for reporting on situations that could be disasters.

Potential non-disasters remain relevant for exploring mechanisms, tools and actions for educating about vulnerability causes and vulnerability reduction to avert disasters. Limitations are evident by relying on media reports, even local ones with local authors. A suggestion is to implement a grant programme for collecting data immediately after a major hazard without an evident, major disaster. Additionally, an annual report and critique of each year's potential non-disasters, categorised and analysed, would help to evidence the presence and limits of the “potential non-disaster” construct.

This short paper contributes a much deeper theoretical dive into understanding potential non-disasters, both describing them and the drawbacks of the construct. To practitioners, the construct now offers more avenues for actions while illustrating their effectiveness in reducing vulnerabilities. Thus, this paper supports multiple, linked pathways towards more non-disasters.

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Categorising potential non-disasters10.1108/DPM-07-2023-0156Disaster Prevention and Management2023-12-05© 2023 Emerald Publishing LimitedBrady PodloskiIlan KelmanDisaster Prevention and Managementahead-of-printahead-of-print2023-12-0510.1108/DPM-07-2023-0156https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/DPM-07-2023-0156/full/html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=rss_journalLatest© 2023 Emerald Publishing Limited
Development of disaster risk reduction policy in Thailandhttps://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/DPM-08-2019-0244/full/html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=rss_journalLatestThis exploratory study discusses the policy learning process of the development of disaster risk reduction (DRR) policy. The paper discusses how DRR has and has not developed in Thailand through the two major disasters: the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami and the 2011 Great Flood. The information was collected by documentary analysis to gain a historical and critical understanding of the development of the system and policy of DRR in Thailand. Additionally, key stakeholders' interviews were undertaken to supplement the analysis. The paper demonstrates that Thailand's DRR development has been “reactive” rather than “proactive”, being largely directed by global DRR actors. Being a small-scale study, the sample size was small. The analysis and argument would be consolidated with an increase in the number of interviews. The model can help deconstruct which dimension of the learning process a government has/has not achieved well. The application of the “restrictive-expansive policy learning” model, which identifies different dimensions of policy learning, reveals that the Thai government's policy learning was of a mixed nature.Development of disaster risk reduction policy in Thailand
Kaori Kitagawa
Disaster Prevention and Management, Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print, pp.-

This exploratory study discusses the policy learning process of the development of disaster risk reduction (DRR) policy.

The paper discusses how DRR has and has not developed in Thailand through the two major disasters: the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami and the 2011 Great Flood. The information was collected by documentary analysis to gain a historical and critical understanding of the development of the system and policy of DRR in Thailand. Additionally, key stakeholders' interviews were undertaken to supplement the analysis.

The paper demonstrates that Thailand's DRR development has been “reactive” rather than “proactive”, being largely directed by global DRR actors.

Being a small-scale study, the sample size was small. The analysis and argument would be consolidated with an increase in the number of interviews.

The model can help deconstruct which dimension of the learning process a government has/has not achieved well.

The application of the “restrictive-expansive policy learning” model, which identifies different dimensions of policy learning, reveals that the Thai government's policy learning was of a mixed nature.

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Development of disaster risk reduction policy in Thailand10.1108/DPM-08-2019-0244Disaster Prevention and Management2020-04-14© 2020 Emerald Publishing LimitedKaori KitagawaDisaster Prevention and Managementahead-of-printahead-of-print2020-04-1410.1108/DPM-08-2019-0244https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/DPM-08-2019-0244/full/html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=rss_journalLatest© 2020 Emerald Publishing Limited
A conversation towards post-colonial futures for disaster risk reduction in South Asiahttps://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/DPM-10-2023-0265/full/html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=rss_journalLatestThis conversation highlights the need to rethink how we approach disaster risk reduction in different South Asian contexts. This paper is based on the webinar held as part of Asia Week at the University of Copenhagen which was organised by Asian Dynamics Initiative and Copenhagen Centre for Disaster Research on the September 12, 2023. The prominent themes emerging from this conversation represents hybridity, self-rule and self-recovery. Along with this we suggest a fundamental turn to ensuring hope, solidarity and empathy is part of a post-colonial future. The conversation contributes to the ongoing discussions on moving away from colonial practices in disaster risk reduction and disaster studies broadly.A conversation towards post-colonial futures for disaster risk reduction in South Asia
Emmanuel Raju, Suchismita Goswami, Nishara Fernando, Mayeda Rashid, Eti Akter, Nyima Dorjee Bhotia, Aditi Sharan, Mihir Bhatt, J.C. Gaillard
Disaster Prevention and Management, Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print, pp.-

This conversation highlights the need to rethink how we approach disaster risk reduction in different South Asian contexts.

This paper is based on the webinar held as part of Asia Week at the University of Copenhagen which was organised by Asian Dynamics Initiative and Copenhagen Centre for Disaster Research on the September 12, 2023.

The prominent themes emerging from this conversation represents hybridity, self-rule and self-recovery. Along with this we suggest a fundamental turn to ensuring hope, solidarity and empathy is part of a post-colonial future.

The conversation contributes to the ongoing discussions on moving away from colonial practices in disaster risk reduction and disaster studies broadly.

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A conversation towards post-colonial futures for disaster risk reduction in South Asia10.1108/DPM-10-2023-0265Disaster Prevention and Management2024-02-26© 2024 Emerald Publishing LimitedEmmanuel RajuSuchismita GoswamiNishara FernandoMayeda RashidEti AkterNyima Dorjee BhotiaAditi SharanMihir BhattJ.C. GaillardDisaster Prevention and Managementahead-of-printahead-of-print2024-02-2610.1108/DPM-10-2023-0265https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/DPM-10-2023-0265/full/html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=rss_journalLatest© 2024 Emerald Publishing Limited
Community and governmental perspectives on climate disaster risk finance instruments in Colombiahttps://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/DPM-11-2023-0303/full/html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=rss_journalLatestAt the global level, disaster risk finance (DRF) is playing an increasingly prominent role in the international agendas for climate change adaptation. However, before implementing such agendas, it is essential to understand the needs and limitations of DRF in the subnational context where they need to impact. This research aims to gain insights into the perspectives of community and governmental actors in Colombia regarding DRF. Its goal is to promote the specific design of collaborative educational and technical assistance processes that consider their interests in the subject and the cultural diversity of the territories. To achieve this, semi-structured interviews were conducted, and the findings were organized to highlight key aspects that help to understand DRF perspectives in the Colombian context. It was found that the most significant limitations of implementing DRF include a lack of knowledge on the topic, corruption that encourages a reactive approach and the absence of economic resources. Concerns have emerged regarding the possibility of climate risk insurance becoming a profit-driven enterprise and the potential development of dependency behaviors within community groups, leading to maladaptation and moral hazard. Similarly, the implementation of DRF through foreign funds has raised concerns about the loss of territorial sovereignty and autonomy. This is one of the first studies that carry out this kind of research and contributes to the formulation of inclusive public policies for DRF in different contexts worldwide.Community and governmental perspectives on climate disaster risk finance instruments in Colombia
Cristian Camilo Fernández Lopera, José Manuel Mendes, Eduardo Jorge Barata, Miguel Angel Trejo-Rangel
Disaster Prevention and Management, Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print, pp.-

At the global level, disaster risk finance (DRF) is playing an increasingly prominent role in the international agendas for climate change adaptation. However, before implementing such agendas, it is essential to understand the needs and limitations of DRF in the subnational context where they need to impact. This research aims to gain insights into the perspectives of community and governmental actors in Colombia regarding DRF. Its goal is to promote the specific design of collaborative educational and technical assistance processes that consider their interests in the subject and the cultural diversity of the territories.

To achieve this, semi-structured interviews were conducted, and the findings were organized to highlight key aspects that help to understand DRF perspectives in the Colombian context.

It was found that the most significant limitations of implementing DRF include a lack of knowledge on the topic, corruption that encourages a reactive approach and the absence of economic resources. Concerns have emerged regarding the possibility of climate risk insurance becoming a profit-driven enterprise and the potential development of dependency behaviors within community groups, leading to maladaptation and moral hazard. Similarly, the implementation of DRF through foreign funds has raised concerns about the loss of territorial sovereignty and autonomy.

This is one of the first studies that carry out this kind of research and contributes to the formulation of inclusive public policies for DRF in different contexts worldwide.

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Community and governmental perspectives on climate disaster risk finance instruments in Colombia10.1108/DPM-11-2023-0303Disaster Prevention and Management2024-02-20© 2024 Emerald Publishing LimitedCristian Camilo Fernández LoperaJosé Manuel MendesEduardo Jorge BarataMiguel Angel Trejo-RangelDisaster Prevention and Managementahead-of-printahead-of-print2024-02-2010.1108/DPM-11-2023-0303https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/DPM-11-2023-0303/full/html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=rss_journalLatest© 2024 Emerald Publishing Limited