Sustainable Development and Disaster Risk Reduction: Introduction

Uitto, Juha I.; Shaw, Rajib

doi:10.1007/978-4-431-55078-5_1

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“…In this definition, vulnerability is no longer solely a product of exposure, but is also determined by the physical, social, economic, and environmental factors of a respective area or community. Literature is increasingly recognising that disasters are firmly rooted in an area or community's vulnerabilities and degradations of resilience, not just exposures (Uitto & Shaw, 2016). In fact, an event becomes a disaster when an area or community cannot cope with said event.…”

Section: A Development Justice Approach To Disaster and Catastrophe Imentioning

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Development justice, a proposal: Reckoning with disaster, catastrophe, and climate change in the Caribbean

Gahman

Thongs

2020

Trans Inst British Geog

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This paper proposes that "development justice" be taken up as an analytical concept and praxis-driven framework for research on disasters, resilience, and climate change. The piece begins with a synopsis of the historical-structural factors exacerbating risk in the Caribbean before reviewing the concepts of vulnerability, resilience, and development justice. Next, drawing from empirical data and via a development justice lens, we highlight how the logics, practices, and debts of colonial underdevelopment, racial capitalism, and neoliberal extraction continue to erode resilience across the region. We end by recommending that future adaptation and mitigation strategies related to disasters, catastrophes, and climate change be more attentive to structural and slow violence, as well as the historical trajectories of imperialism, racial capitalism, and hetero patriarchal norms. In sum, the piece constitutes an evidence-based assertion that development justice perspectives alongside theories of non-metaphorical decolonisation be used by scholars, activists, scientists, and states alike who are committed to mediating climate change and preventing/reducing the damage caused by disasters.

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Section: A Development Justice Approach To Disaster and Catastrophe Imentioning

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Development justice, a proposal: Reckoning with disaster, catastrophe, and climate change in the Caribbean

Gahman

Thongs

2020

Trans Inst British Geog

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“…These all have a direct impact on the people who are directly dependent on agriculture and natural resources for their subsistence. For those people and especially for the poorest and most vulnerable, failure of crops and environmental degradation have strong impacts (Uitto and Shaw, 2016). Climate change is likely to affect the Hindu Kush Himalaya region strongly.…”

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Addressing capacities of local communities in a changing context in Nepal

Rolsted

Raju

2020

DPM

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PurposeThe field study aimed at exploring how capacities are influenced by external factors in the context of community-based disaster risk reduction (CBDRR).Design/methodology/approachThe field study was conducted in a small rural area called Lapsibot in Lamjung district in Nepal. The article is based on a fieldwork conducted in April 2018. The different tools of data collection were inspired by the vulnerability and capacity assessment approach with a focus on various aspects of vulnerabilities and capacities with regard to disaster risk reduction (DRR) in Lapsibot.FindingsThe paper highlights that communities, in fact, need enhanced and extended capacities, not only existing inherent capacities, which are usually the main subject of capacity development in rural communities.Originality/valueWhile there is absolutely no question of strong capacities at the community level, this paper appeals for a more in-depth investigation of an extended notion of capacities, where the effects of the rapid changes and increasing impact of the outside world are taken into consideration.

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“…used primarily in the context of environmental resistance to stress in relation to sustainable development (Uitto & Shaw, 2016). At the same time, researchers note the ability of this concept to substitute the concept of sustainable development in management discourse (Walker & Cooper, 2011).…”

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Theoretical Basis Of State Participation In The Risk Assessment Of Social Development

Arkadeva¹

2019

The European Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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Sustainable Development and Disaster Risk Reduction: Introduction

Cited by 35 publications

References 8 publications

Development justice, a proposal: Reckoning with disaster, catastrophe, and climate change in the Caribbean

Development justice, a proposal: Reckoning with disaster, catastrophe, and climate change in the Caribbean

Addressing capacities of local communities in a changing context in Nepal

Theoretical Basis Of State Participation In The Risk Assessment Of Social Development

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