Disaster risk governance and city resilience in Asia-Pacific region

Pal, Indrajit; Bhatia, Sanjaya

doi:10.1016/b978-0-12-812711-7.00009-2

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“…Governance plays an important role in determining the disaster resilience of an island community. We validate the previous findings that Governance is a vital aspect of building resilience to disasters [50][51][52][53][54][55]. Policies and its implementation are crucial in disaster risk management.…”

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Practitioners’ Participatory Development of Indicators for Island Community Resilience to Disasters

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Despite the existence of a wide range of literature on indicators of disaster resilience in various geographical contexts that have been developed by different agencies and academia, not much has been done to include the insights of practitioners at the local level. This paper seeks to address the lack of practitioner insight and perspective by proposing a mixed methodology in developing composite indicators for the resilience of an island community to disasters. We used a combination of participatory approaches, such as semi-structured interviews with key informants, the web-based Delphi method, and expert interviews through a case study site in the Philippines—the Batanes island province. Principal Component Analysis (PCA) was utilized to analyse the data from web-Delphi, and the results from the content analysis of the interviews were used to support these findings. From a broad list of 144 indicators, the process identified 22 composite indicators for assessing the disaster resilience of an island community. We conclude that the development of new approaches for assessing disaster resilience of island communities is a positive step towards a better understanding and operationalization of the concept of resilience. The process followed in this paper is a significant milestone in developing new approaches to answer the question of what makes an island community resilient to disasters.

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Practitioners’ Participatory Development of Indicators for Island Community Resilience to Disasters

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“…The resilience of urban communities significantly depends on a number of factors. One is the protection of critical infrastructures especially in high-risk areas, as well as coexistence of centralized and decentralized decision-making mechanisms, education and training for both officials and communities, efficient information dissemination and efficient solution of legal problems (Pal and Bhatia, 2017).…”

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Assessment and appraisal of local governance on urban flood resilience in Bangkok Metropolitan Region: perspectives of SDGs 11 and 13

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Purpose The purpose of this study is to understand through the qualitative assessment, how the current strategy plans are geared toward reducing urban flood risks and achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 11 and 13. Design/methodology/approach The Bangkok Metropolitan Region (BMR) plays a major role in Thailand’s economic development. Thus, when the 2011 Thailand flood disaster occurred, BMR suffered major economic and social losses, which impacted the rest of the country. This mega disaster prompted policymakers, the academe and other relevant stakeholders to reevaluate and amend the current urban flood risk reduction measures and governance. The present study attempts to evaluate and compare the post-2011 Thailand flood disaster strategy and master plans, policies and reports that directly and indirectly reduce urban flood risks in the provinces of BMR. Basing on SDGs 11 and 13 targets that impact urban flood risk and resilience, a set of criteria was developed to screen, score and asses the selected documents. A screening process of three levels are conducted to limit the documents to be reviewed, and subsequent content analysis for scoring also has been done. Findings The projected results indicate the need for improved and increased number of localized strategic plans and policies, which are more comprehensive and integrated as risk governance documents. Research limitations/implications Furthermore, it is projected that there is need to integrate measures to increase adaptive capacity for BMR. Originality/value This study is original, and methodology can be replicated for other urban areas for flood risks and resilience assessment.

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“…(2020) suggest that leveraging current international policies and collaborations allows for a more mechanical understanding of the pandemic's complex dynamics and a better relationship between risk governance, economic assessment, and development planning. Management of pandemic hazards and risk reduction are critical problems for resilience that cannot be achieved without efficient governance ( Pal and Bhatia, 2017 ).…”

Section: Pandemic Risk Response and Resiliencementioning

confidence: 99%