Disaster declarations associated with bushfires, floods and storms in New South Wales, Australia between 2004 and 2014

Sewell, Thomas D.; Stephens, Ruby E.; Dominey‐Howes, Dale; Bruce, Eleanor; Perkins‐Kirkpatrick, Sarah E.

doi:10.1038/srep36369

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“…In the case of Australia, this conclusion is in fact supported by the literature (e.g. Box et al 2013;Sewell et al 2016).…”

Section: Do Communities In Different Parts Of the World Use Differentsupporting

confidence: 75%

A global comparison of community-based responses to natural hazards

Paterson¹,

Charles²

2018

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Abstract. Community-based disaster preparedness is an important component of disaster management. Knowledge of interventions that communities utilise in response to hazards is important to develop local-level capacity and increase community resilience. This paper systematically examines empirical information about local level responses to hazards based on peer reviewed, published case studies. We developed a data set based on 188 articles providing information from 318 communities from all regions of the world. We classified response examples to address four key questions: (i) What kinds of responses are used by communities all over the world? (ii) Do communities in different parts of the world use different kinds of responses? (iii) Are communities using hazard-specific responses? (iv) Are communities using a multi-hazard approach? We found that within an extensive literature on hazards, there is relatively little empirical information about community-based responses to hazards. Across the world, responses aiming at securing basic human needs are the most frequently reported kinds of responses. Although the notion of community-based disaster preparedness is gaining importance, very few examples of responses that draw on the social fabric of communities are reported. Specific regions of the world are lacking in their use of certain hazard responses classes. Although an all-hazards approach for disaster preparedness is increasingly recommended, there is a lack of multi-hazard response approaches on the local level.

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“…In the case of Australia, this conclusion is in fact supported by the literature (e.g. Box et al 2013;Sewell et al 2016).…”

Section: Do Communities In Different Parts Of the World Use Differentsupporting

confidence: 75%

A global comparison of community-based responses to natural hazards

Paterson¹,

Charles²

2018

Preprint

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“…In the case of Australia, this conclusion is in fact supported by the literature (e.g. Box et al, 2013;Sewell et al, 2016). Finally, the use of relational well-being responses draws on collective action and the social fabric of the community for preparedness or protection against hazards.…”

Section: Hazardmentioning

confidence: 72%

“…First, because the sample of response examples has been taken from the peer-reviewed English literature, it could be subject to a language bias. However, English is considered the international language of science (Tardy, 2004;Kirchik et al, 2012) and although this notion may be problematic, it is not the subject of this paper. Second, it is possible that the response examples extracted from the articles represent the priorities of the authors rather than the realities of what took place in local communities.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Examples include both permanent or seasonal migration away (e.g. Penning-Rowsell et al, 2013;Kartiki, 2011;Sudmeier-Rieux et al, 2012) as well as evacuations (Esteban et al, 2013a). Search and rescue actions focus on saving lives such as after the 2000 floods in the Limpopo province of South Africa (Vermaak and van Niekerk, 2004) or after the 2009 Tsunami in American Samoa (Rumbach and Foley, 2014).…”

Section: Individual and Materials Well-beingmentioning

confidence: 99%

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A global comparison of community-based responses to natural hazards

Paterson

Charles

2019

Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci.

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Abstract. Community-based disaster preparedness is an important component of disaster management. Knowledge of interventions that communities utilize in response to hazards is important to develop local-level capacity and increase community resilience. This paper systematically examines empirical information about local-level responses to hazards based on peer-reviewed, published case studies. We developed a data set based on 188 articles providing information from 318 communities from all regions of the world. We classified response examples to address four key questions: (i) what kinds of responses are used by communities all over the world? (ii) Do communities in different parts of the world use different kinds of responses? (iii) Are communities using hazard-specific responses? (iv) Are communities using a multi-hazard approach? We found that within an extensive literature on hazards, there is relatively little empirical information about community-based responses to hazards. Across the world, responses aiming at securing basic human needs are the most frequently reported kinds of responses. Although the notion of community-based disaster preparedness is gaining importance, very few examples of responses that draw on the social fabric of communities are reported. Specific regions of the world are lacking in their use of certain hazard responses classes. Although an all-hazard approach for disaster preparedness is increasingly recommended, there is a lack of multi-hazard response approaches on the local level.

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“…We are skilled at identifying evidence for floods, storms, heatwaves, bushfires, and other hazards within the historic and geological records. We have contributed to Earth System Sciences' efforts to demonstrate statistical changes in climate extremes-the hazards that trigger disasters-the consequence of the Anthropocene (Perkins- Kirkpatrick et al 2016;Sewell et al 2016). Given that the Anthropocene's arrival is commensurate with a marked increase in carbon and a destabilizing atmosphere and hydrosphere and consequently, more hazards and disasters-then hazard and disaster scholars are important experts in identifying traces of this evidence for Earth system change that point to a late-start.…”

Section: How Do We Make Space For Slow Emergencies and What Do Slow Ementioning

confidence: 99%

Hazards and disasters in the Anthropocene: some critical reflections for the future

Dominey‐Howes

2018

Geosci. Lett.

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The arrival of the Anthropocene presents many challenges-both theoretical and practical. Scholars in different disciplines, practitioners, the public and others, are all considering the meaning of the Anthropocene and how its arrival affects their ways of knowing and doing. Given that a dominant narrative of the Anthropocene is one of a coming crisis, hazard, and disaster experts from different disciplines have much to contribute. Here, I briefly summarize the trajectory of hazards' and disasters' research through to the present to provide the context to ask a series of critical questions that experts in hazard and disaster might address to make theoretical and practical contributions to making the Anthropocene as good as it might be. The questions considered are: how useful is the contemporary crisis narrative of the Anthropocene for understanding the planetary history of hazards and disasters, and coupled to this; is the modern language of disaster risk reduction useful for understanding past disasters; how do we give voice to the more-than-human experiences of Anthropocene disasters; is it possible to mitigate the impacts of future hazards and disasters within the Anthropocene without addressing the root causes of vulnerability; how do we make space for slow emergencies and what do slow emergencies mean for understanding hazard and disaster in the Anthropocene; and finally, does the scholarship of hazard and disaster provide evidence useful for informing the debate about an early or late-start for the Anthropocene?

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Disaster declarations associated with bushfires, floods and storms in New South Wales, Australia between 2004 and 2014

Cited by 35 publications

References 38 publications

A global comparison of community-based responses to natural hazards

A global comparison of community-based responses to natural hazards

A global comparison of community-based responses to natural hazards

Hazards and disasters in the Anthropocene: some critical reflections for the future

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