A Comparison of Disaster Paradigms: The Search for a Holistic Policy Guide

McEntire, David A.; Fuller, Chris R.; Johnston, Chad W.; Weber, Richard

doi:10.1111/1540-6210.00178

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“…The civil protection actions refer broadly to the phases of the disaster management cycle, i.e. preparedness, response, recovery and mitigation (Alexander, 2005) which, despite longstanding academic critique (McEntire et al, 2002;Neal, 1997), are persistent in practice. Resilience actions undertaken by the community can be related to these phases (e.g.…”

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Conceptualizing community resilience to natural hazards – the emBRACE framework

Kruse

Abeling

Deeming

et al. 2017

Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci.

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Abstract. The level of community is considered to be vital for building disaster resilience. Yet, community resilience as a scientific concept often remains vaguely defined and lacks the guiding characteristics necessary for analysing and enhancing resilience on the ground. The emBRACE framework of community resilience presented in this paper provides a heuristic analytical tool for understanding, explaining and measuring community resilience to natural hazards. It was developed in an iterative process building on existing scholarly debates, on empirical case study work in five countries and on participatory consultation with community stakeholders where the framework was applied and ground-tested in different contexts and for different hazard types. The framework conceptualizes resilience across three core domains: (i) resources and capacities, (ii) actions and (iii) learning. These three domains are conceptualized as intrinsically conjoined within a whole. Community resilience is influenced by these integral elements as well as by extra-community forces comprising disaster risk governance and thus laws, policies and responsibilities on the one hand and on the other, the general societal context, natural and human-made disturbances and system change over time. The framework is a graphically rendered heuristic, which through application can assist in guiding the assessment of community resilience in a systematic way and identifying key drivers and barriers of resilience that affect any particular hazard-exposed community.

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Section: Actionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Conceptualizing community resilience to natural hazards – the emBRACE framework

Kruse

Abeling

Deeming

et al. 2017

Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci.

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“…For instance, Sandhu (2002) notes several DR tasks such as determining the location of backups and identifying alternative sites. Both the DR literature and practice still lack holistic approaches for conceptualizing and managing these tasks despite their frequency in DR practice McEntire, Fuller, Johnston, & Weber, 2002;Chen, Sharman, Rao, & Udaphyaya, 2013). Therefore, organizations seldom execute their task-driven plans as planned and abandon them as unpredictable challenges interrupt linear procedures.…”

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Applying a Layered Framework to Disaster Recovery

Baham¹,

Calderon²,

Hirschheim³

2017

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“…Substantiating this argument, McEntire et al (2002) emphasise the importance of considering vulnerability reduction through development and disaster management activities, i.e., both DRR and socio-economic development should be aimed at vulnerability reduction as depicted in Figure 2. This implies the need for effective DRR strategies for vulnerability reduction where they might affect a reduction in different vulnerabilities at various levels.…”

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Developing an approach to assess the influence of integrating disaster risk reduction practices into infrastructure reconstruction on socio‐economic development

Palliyaguru

Amaratunga

Haigh

2013

Disaster Prevention and Management: An International Journal

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Purpose -Disasters provide physical, social, economic, political and environmental development windows of opportunity particularly through housing and infrastructure reconstruction. The reconstruction process should not be neglected due to the opportunistic nature of facilitating innovation in development. In this respect, postdisaster 'infrastructure' reconstruction plays a critical role in development discourse and is often essential to sustain recovery after major disasters. However, reconstruction following a natural disaster is a complicated problem involving social, economic, cultural, environmental, psychological, and technological aspects. There are significant development benefits of well-developed 'Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) Strategies' and, for many reasons, the concept of DRR can be more easily promoted following a disaster. In this respect, a research study was conducted to investigate the effects of integrating DRR strategies into infrastructure reconstruction on enhancing the socio-economic development process from a qualitative stance. The purpose of this paper is to document part of this research study; it proposes an approach that can be used to assess the influence of the application of the DRR concept into infrastructure reconstruction on socioeconomic development.Design/methodology/approach -The research methodology included a critical literature review.Findings -This paper suggests that the best way to assess the influence of integrating DRR strategies practices into infrastructure reconstruction on socio-economic development is to assess the level of impact that DRR strategies has on overcoming various factors that form vulnerabilities. Having assessed this, the next step is to assess the influence of overcoming the factors that form vulnerabilities on achieving performance targets of socio-economic development.Originality/value -This paper primarily presents a framework for the concept of socio-economic development and a modelled classification of DRR practices.

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A Comparison of Disaster Paradigms: The Search for a Holistic Policy Guide

Cited by 229 publications

References 13 publications

Conceptualizing community resilience to natural hazards – the emBRACE framework

Conceptualizing community resilience to natural hazards – the emBRACE framework

Applying a Layered Framework to Disaster Recovery

Developing an approach to assess the influence of integrating disaster risk reduction practices into infrastructure reconstruction on socio‐economic development

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