SOCIAL CONSEQUENCES OF THE MOUNT LAMINGTON ERUPTION<sup>1</sup>

Belshaw, Cyril S.

doi:10.1002/j.1834-4461.1951.tb00175.x

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“…Belshaw, 1951;Keesing, 1952;Roger, 1981;Seitz, 2004;Gaillard, 2006Gaillard, , 2007Cronin and Cashman, 2007;Donovan, 2010a, b). While in the examples discussed above traditional culture has an unequivocally positive effect upon tsunami risk mitigation, in other cases cultural attitudes can lead to increased risk.…”

Section: Engaging With Culturementioning

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Culture and disaster risk reduction: Lessons and opportunities

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Gaillard

Crowley

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Environmental Hazards

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2012) Culture and disaster risk reduction: Lessons and opportunities, Environmental Hazards, 11:2, 74-95,The value of physical science in mitigating the effects of environmental hazards is well acknowledged. Less acknowledged are the cultural influences affecting adoption of disaster risk reduction strategies, that is what influence 'culture' has upon hazard and risk. This paper explores the need to consider 'culture' within disaster risk reduction and cross disciplinary boundaries through four key questions: (a) How relevant is 'culture' to disaster risk reduction? (b) How can we engage with different cultures? (c) How can local knowledge be accessed and utilized? (d) How can local and scientific knowledge be integrated for the benefit of disaster risk reduction? The questions are answered through drawing upon case study snapshots from Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, USA and the Maldives that explore geological-related hazard phenomena, including earthquakes, volcanoes and tsunamis, and their effects within communities. Challenges and ways forward for ensuring the integration of cultural considerations into risk reduction and putting research into practice and practice into research are identified.

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Section: Engaging With Culturementioning

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Culture and disaster risk reduction: Lessons and opportunities

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Gaillard

Crowley

et al. 2012

Environmental Hazards

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“…In fact, migration has always been important for SIDS peoples, such as on volcanic islands that erupted (e.g. Belshaw ; Haynes et al . ).…”

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No change from climate change: vulnerability and small island developing states

Kelman

2013

Geographical Journal

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Climate change is frequently touted as the biggest development challenge that faces humanity. Such rhetoric may be distracting from other development challenges which need to be addressed simultaneously with climate change. This paper uses the case study of small island developing states (SIDS) affected by climate change to explore how focusing on climate change can depoliticise the challenges that they face. Three linked points of depoliticisation through climate change are exemplified: emphasising the hazard, avoiding other long‐term development challenges, and shifting focus away from opportunities for reducing vulnerability, including during community reconstruction. Examples cover scientific and policy discussions, from inside and external to SIDS. Links are made with migration narratives, especially learning from the past and the importance of not rebuilding communities with the same vulnerabilities as before. The fundamental challenge is not so much addressing the hazard of climate change per se, but why SIDS peoples often do not have the resources or options to address climate change and other development challenges themselves. In this regard, climate change brings little that is new to SIDS which continue to be marginalised.

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“…'Harry' Plant, who had had anthropological training, undertook a detailed survey of clan relationships as a basis for resettling people of the Isivita villages, and two academic anthropologists, Cyril Belshaw and Felix Keesing, were invited to the area to make independent assessments. 27 27 Plant (1951), Belshaw (1951) and Keesing (1952). The Anglican Mission at Sangara sustained grievous losses.…”

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Fire Mountains of the Islands : A History of Volcanic Eruptions and Disaster Management in Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands

Johnson¹

2013

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SOCIAL CONSEQUENCES OF THE MOUNT LAMINGTON ERUPTION¹

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Culture and disaster risk reduction: Lessons and opportunities

Culture and disaster risk reduction: Lessons and opportunities

No change from climate change: vulnerability and small island developing states

Fire Mountains of the Islands : A History of Volcanic Eruptions and Disaster Management in Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands

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Culture and disaster risk reduction: Lessons and opportunities

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