Transnational migration and disaster risk reduction: Insights from Chinese migrants living in Auckland, New Zealand

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chao Zhang ◽  
Loïc Le Dé ◽  
Nadia Charania
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Risk Reduction ◽  
Disaster Risk Reduction ◽  
Transnational Migration ◽  
Disaster Risk ◽  
Chinese Migrants

Relocalisation for degrowth and disaster risk reduction

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (6) ◽  
pp. 877-891
Author(s):  
Oluwadunsin Moromoke Ajulo ◽  
Jason von Meding ◽  
Patrick Tang
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Economic System ◽  
Risk Reduction ◽  
Disaster Risk Reduction ◽  
Wealth Distribution ◽  
Disaster Risk ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Vulnerability Reduction ◽  
Local Initiatives

PurposeVulnerability is understood as susceptibility to hazards born out of the complex interaction within the system scales. The current global economic system focuses on persistent growth and a top-down approach to wealth distribution, which not only puts a strain on the Earth's resources but also on communities by increasing vulnerability. Localised economy, on the other hand, uses a bottom-up approach to wealth distribution, whereby local resources are harnessed for sustainability of the local economy. Localising economies facilitate degrowth by shifting our focus to the quality of economies and the redefinition of growth and prosperity. The purpose of this study is to highlight the potentials of localisation and degrowth for vulnerability reduction.Design/methodology/approachIn this study, the authors conducted a case study of the Lyttelton community in New Zealand, their local initiatives and how these efforts have been used to build capacities and reduce vulnerabilities in the community. Data were sourced from both primary and secondary sources. Primary data were sourced through observation of the day-to-day running of the community and interviews with community members, while secondary data were sourced from existing literature on the community and related concepts.FindingsLyttelton community provides a good example of a community where bottom-up initiatives are particularly felt, and there is very limited dependence on the conventional economic system to solve their problems. The study shows that degrowth initiatives within the community have gained momentum because initiators see the value in their coming together as a community and doing what is right for themselves and the environment. Furthermore, localisation fosters innovation, personal growth and development and care for the environment.Originality/valueThis paper contributes to the existing knowledge by discussing some local initiatives that serve an underlying purpose for degrowth based on a study carried out in Lyttelton, New Zealand. The study findings established that there is need for more focus on sensitisation about the risks of growth mania and the potential for degrowth in bringing about actual prosperity, for saving the environment and disaster risk reduction. Also, the encouragement of local production and existing institutions like the timebank, which give members access to the needed resources and skills contribute to vulnerability reduction.

scholarly journals Fostering Children’s Participation in Disaster Risk Reduction Through Play: A Case Study of LEGO and Minecraft

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Loïc Le Dé ◽  
JC Gaillard ◽  
Anthony Gampell ◽  
Nickola Loodin ◽  
Graham Hinchliffe
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Risk Reduction ◽  
Video Game ◽  
Disaster Risk Reduction ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Disaster Risk ◽  
Child Centered ◽  
Children’S Participation ◽  
Children's Participation

AbstractThis article focuses on children’s participation in disaster risk reduction. It draws on a 2018 study done in New Zealand with 33 school children who conducted participatory mapping with LEGO and the video game Minecraft to assess disaster risk in their locality and identify ways to be more prepared. The research involved participatory activities with the children actively involved in the co-design, implementation, and evaluation of the initiative. A focus group discussion was also conducted to assess the project from the viewpoint of the schoolteachers. The results indicate that LEGO and Minecraft are playful tools for children to participate in disaster risk reduction. The research identifies four key elements of genuine children’s participation, including the Participants, Play, the Process, and Power (4 Ps). This framework emphasizes that fostering children’s participation in disaster risk reduction requires focusing on the process through which children gain power to influence decisions that matter to them. The process, through play, is child-centered and fosters ownership. The article concludes that Play is essential to ground participation within children’s worldviews and their networks of friends and relatives.

Is health and safety legislation an effective tool for disaster risk reduction? A case study from New Zealand

2022 ◽  
pp. 102773
Author(s):  
Sophie Horsfall ◽  
Tracy Hatton ◽  
Toni Collins ◽  
Charlotte Brown
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Risk Reduction ◽  
Disaster Risk Reduction ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Disaster Risk

scholarly journals Persistent Precarity and the Disaster of Everyday Life: Homeless People’s Experiences of Natural and Other Hazards

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 332-342 ◽  
Author(s):  
J C Gaillard ◽  
Vicky Walters ◽  
Megan Rickerby ◽  
Yu Shi
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Risk Reduction ◽  
Natural Hazards ◽  
Disaster Risk Reduction ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Homeless People ◽  
Disaster Risk ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
The Everyday

Abstract Knowledge of how homeless people deal with natural hazards and disasters is sparse and there is a remarkable absence of homeless people in policies and practices for disaster risk reduction (DRR). This article aims at filling this gap by exploring the lives of homeless people in two New Zealand cities that are exposed to natural hazards. It shows that natural hazards are of marginal concern to homeless people in comparison to the everyday hazards that they experience and that make their everyday life a disaster in itself. The disaster of everyday life is created and compounded by homeless people’s precarious lifeworlds. The article, nonetheless, shows that homeless people’s vulnerability to natural hazards remains high as they lack power to control the processes that shape their everyday lives, to prepare for large-scale events, and to be represented in DRR policy. Therefore, the article ultimately argues that disaster policies require greater attention to be paid to the power structures that create persistent precarity and the ways in which this is experienced in everyday life.

Analisis Longsor Cililin Dan Model Pengupayaan Kestabilan Lerengnya

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Wisyanto
Keyword(s):  
Land Cover ◽  
Risk Reduction ◽  
Disaster Risk Reduction ◽  
Disaster Risk ◽  
Landslide Risk ◽  
West Java ◽  
Water Condition ◽  
Reduction Program ◽  
Landslide Risk Reduction

Landslides have occurred in various places in Indonesia. Likewise with West Java, there were many regions that has experienced repeated landslides. Having many experience of occurrences of landslides, we should have had a good landslide risk reduction program. Indeed, the incidence of landslides depends on many variables. Due to that condition, it may that a region would have different variable with another region. So it is impossible to generalize the implementation of a mitigation technology for all areas prone to landslides. Research of the Cililin's landslide is to anticipate the next disasters that may happen in around the area of 2013 Cililin Landslide. Through observation lithological conditions, water condition, land cover and landscape, as well as consideration of wide dimension of the building footing, the distance of building to the slopes and so forth, it has been determined some efforts of disaster risk reduction in the area around the landslide against the occurrence of potential landslide in the future.Bencana tanah longsor telah terjadi di berbagai tempat di Indonesia. Demikian halnya dengan Jawa Barat, tidak sedikit daerahnya telah berulang kali mengalami longsor. Seharusnya dengan telah banyaknya kejadian longsor, kita mampu mengupayakan program penurunan risiko longsor secara baik. Memang kejadian longsor bergantung pada banyak variabel, dimana dari satu daerah dengan daerah yang lain akan sangat memungkinkan mempunyai variabel yang berbeda, sehingga tidak mungkin kita membuat generalisasi penerapan suatu teknologi mitigasinya untuk semua daerah rawan longsor. Penelitian longsor di Cililin dilakukan untuk mengantisipasi terjadinya bencana di sekitar daerah Longsor Cililin 2013 yang lalu. Melalui pengamatan kondisi litologi, keairan, tutupan lahan dan bentang alam yang ada, serta pertimbangan akan dimensi luas pijakan bangunan, jarak batas bangunan dengan lereng dan lain sebagainya, telah ditentukan beberapa upaya penurunan risiko bencana di daerah sekitar longsor terhadap potensi kejadian longsor dimasa mendatang.Keywords: Landslide, risk reduction, footing of building, Cililin

HOW CAN WE TRANSFER SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE TO CITIZENS FOR DISASTER RISK REDUCTION? : CASE STUDIES FROM MEGA-EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMI MONITORING RESEARCHES

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hiroshi Kitazato ◽  
◽  
Akihiro Kijima ◽  
Kazuhiro Kogure ◽  
Katsunori Fujikura
Keyword(s):  
Risk Reduction ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Disaster Risk Reduction ◽  
Disaster Risk ◽  
Reduction Case
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