Extreme weather, complex spaces and diverse rural places: An intra-community scale analysis of responses to storm events in rural Scotland, UK

Connon, Irena Leisbet Ceridwen

doi:10.1016/j.jrurstud.2017.06.015

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“…However, the plains next to a river or stream encounter a high risk of floods [ 16 ]. The livelihood in rural areas usually are more relied on natural resources and most rural residents have higher environmental exposure, which might cause them a higher risk of environmental hazards, such as extreme weather [ 17 ] and floods [ 18 ]. Therefore, place plays a significant role when discussing disaster preparedness in rural communities.…”

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Individual Disaster Preparedness in Drought-and-Flood-Prone Villages in Northwest China: Impact of Place, Out-Migration and Community

Guo

Sim

2021

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Rural communities are generally more vulnerable to natural hazards when compared to urban communities. Moreover, rural communities are diverse and unique in their place, population, agricultural production and culture, which make it challenging for different rural settings to prepare for disasters. There is a little comparison made about the individual disaster preparedness among rural communities with different geographic landforms. In this study, we examined the individual disaster preparedness of rural residents in three drought-and-flood-prone villages with different landforms (plains, loess plateau and mountains) via a cross-sectional self-report structured questionnaire survey conducted in Northwest China. We also adopted an ecological framework to examine the determinants of villagers’ individual disaster preparedness across different dimensions: place, individual sociodemographic factors, family socioeconomic status, hazard adaptations, community and neighbourhood influences. We found that place was a significant factor for disaster preparedness when controlling individual sociodemographic and family socioeconomic factors. The level of preparedness in the plains was higher than both mountains and plateau. Moreover, the villagers who had out-migrated to work reported a higher level of disaster preparedness than did local villagers. In addition, the community and neighbourhood played an important role in determining individual disaster preparedness. This research highlights the needs for tailored community-based disaster risk reduction programs to improve villagers’ knowledge and skills of disaster preparedness.

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Individual Disaster Preparedness in Drought-and-Flood-Prone Villages in Northwest China: Impact of Place, Out-Migration and Community

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2021

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“…The results of essential terminologies emerged as best practices and lesson learned listed in Table 1. (Guarnacci, 2016) • Social relationships, social complexity (Connon, 2017), social contracts (Tsai, 2018) • Social impact assessment (Hansen et al, 2016)…”

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“…• Social innovations (Kluvánková et al, 2018) & regeneration (Beel et al, 2017) • Social networks and local culture (Miller & Pescaroli, 2018) and addressing the cultural and institutional forces that work to reinforce inequality and marginalization (Shah, 2016) • Social roles (Drucza & Peveri, 2018) • Capacities of knowledge transmission (Connon, 2017) and redistribution (Shah & Lopes Cardozo, 2014) including the connection to the global situation (Stenbacka & Bygdell, 2018) Nationalism Security and justice…”

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Developing Social Resilience and Building a Culture of Nationalism in the City of Batam, Indonesia

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International ports serve and expedited interaction between nations. Building a modern international port city and advanced society dwellers within it heavily depends on socially sustainable development, and on the level of social resilience of its residents. The rapid development of an international port city cannot disregard many foreign interests in the City’s decision making; therefore, the lack of a culture of nationalism is investigated. This paper tries to portray that building social resilience is hand-in-hand with building a culture of nationalism, and it exists in the international port city setting such as the City of Batam. A mixed method analysis is used to get determinants of social resilience and nationalism. It is used a systematic review of peer-reviewed academic journal articles published between 2013 and 2018 to scope and synthesize assessment criteria; then it is compared with the quality of socio-cultural life condition from the survey and in-depth interview. The analysis results show a correlation between economic and political powers and building the local identity and culture of nationalism. In the context of being local, being national, and being "other" in the regional area, this study also shows that building a culture of nationalism is related to socially sustainable development, and nationalism is not correlated with the place of living but to the efforts of citizen participation in sustainable development. Therefore, building social resilience is also building a culture of nationalism, and it makes an international port city distinctly unique despite its internationalism characteristic.

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“…This is because if a research project seeks to transform a complex societal problem, it must address existing inequities in participation in research by successfully engaging all relevant stakeholder groups. For example, in order to find solutions that solve existing inequities in adaptation to extreme weather amongst different social groups, a research project must engage with both members of vulnerable groups, such as people with disabilities, and members of the societal institutions that ultimately create the conditions of enhanced vulnerability amongst these groups through policies and practices that shape their social marginalisation (Connon 2017;2019). This requires ensuring that research activities do not risk perpetuating existing inequities by failing to secure the participation of all fundamental groups in solution development.…”

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Failure to consider local political processes and power relations in the development of a transdisciplinary research project plan

Connon

2020

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The 2014-2016 'Transforming Responses to Power Outages in Extreme Weather Events' Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) project was rated 'Outstanding' in 2017 by Innovate UK for transforming community-level responses to power disruption during extreme weather. However, despite its eventual success, the project suffered from a failure at the very start of the project, whereby the original research plan failed to obtain the agreement of community members, as key stakeholders, to participate in the proposed project activities. This chapter draws on the findings from a failure analysis of the original project plan by drawing on evidence obtained from semi-structured interviews conducted with community participants as part of the revised project plan to highlight how this failure resulted from inadequate consideration of the importance of place-based political processes and uneven power relations between stakeholders in the original research design. Building upon existing transdisciplinary scholarship focusing on managing power relations and measuring progress in research, it argues that this failure reveals the need for researchers to be fully informed about contextual power dynamics embedded within society in advance of the development of project activity plans. In addition, lessons learnt from this failure can help in developing key recommendations for informing future transdisciplinary research endeavours.

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Extreme weather, complex spaces and diverse rural places: An intra-community scale analysis of responses to storm events in rural Scotland, UK

Abstract: Connon, I. (2017). Extreme weather, complex spaces and diverse rural places: An intra-community scale analysis of responses to storm events in rural Scotland, UK.

Cited by 8 publications

References 75 publications

Individual Disaster Preparedness in Drought-and-Flood-Prone Villages in Northwest China: Impact of Place, Out-Migration and Community

Individual Disaster Preparedness in Drought-and-Flood-Prone Villages in Northwest China: Impact of Place, Out-Migration and Community

Developing Social Resilience and Building a Culture of Nationalism in the City of Batam, Indonesia

Failure to consider local political processes and power relations in the development of a transdisciplinary research project plan

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