scholarly journals Linking Disaster Risk Reduction and Healthcare in Locations with Limited Accessibility: Challenges and Opportunities of Participatory Research

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 248
Author(s):  
Ilan Kelman ◽  
Myles Harris
Keyword(s):  
Risk Reduction ◽  
Participatory Research ◽  
Disaster Risk Reduction ◽  
Evidence Synthesis ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Disaster Risk ◽  
Qualitative Evidence Synthesis ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Resources Planning

Disaster risk reduction and healthcare support each other, including the mitigation of further harm after illness or injury. These connections are particularly relevant in locations which have permanent or temporary limited accessibility. In these circumstances, people are required to be self-sufficient in providing emergency and long-term healthcare with limited resources. Planning and preparing to mitigate further harm after illness or injury from disasters (disaster risk reduction) must include people living and working in locations with limited accessibility, meaning that participatory research can be used. The challenges and opportunities of enacting participatory research in such contexts have not been thoroughly examined. The research question of this paper is therefore, “What challenges and opportunities occur when participatory research links disaster risk reduction and healthcare to mitigate illness and injury in locations with limited accessibility?” To answer this research question, the method used is a qualitative evidence synthesis, combined with an overview paper approach. Two principal themes of challenges and opportunities are examined: defining the data and collecting the data. The themes are explored in theory and then through contextual examples. The conclusion is that an overarching challenge is divergent goals of research and actions that, when recognized, lead to opportunities for improved connections between disaster risk reduction and healthcare.

Reflections on use of participatory research for disaster risk reduction

Area ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 172-183 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Mercer ◽  
Ilan Kelman ◽  
Kate Lloyd ◽  
Sandie Suchet-Pearson
Keyword(s):  
Risk Reduction ◽  
Participatory Research ◽  
Disaster Risk Reduction ◽  
Disaster Risk

scholarly journals Twenty years of community-based disaster risk reduction experience from a dryland village in Indonesia

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonatan A. Lassa ◽  
Yos Boli ◽  
Yulius Nakmofa ◽  
Silvia Fanggidae ◽  
Alex Ofong ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Reduction ◽  
Disaster Risk Reduction ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Disaster Risk ◽  
Risk Governance ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Eastern Indonesia ◽  
High Level

Academics and practitioners often argue indirectly that all the roads to community resilience should be paved with community-based disaster risk reduction (CBDRR) approach. Community-based approach to resilience building has been a discursive material that appeals many disaster management players including international donors, non-governmental organisations and high-level government officials as well as politicians. Some researchers argue that CBDRR is the foundation of disaster risk governance. Unfortunately, globally, there is lack of studies on long-term and real-world experience of CBDRR. This article addresses this research gap by providing insights of CBDRR activities from a village in eastern Indonesia based on long-term studies. The adoption of CBDRR approach in Indonesia took place in the late 1990s and the authors have been part of the early adopters of the framework. Using longitudinal participant observations, this research combined qualitative and quantitative data collected during 1998–2017. It shows the rise and fall of a community responding to disaster risks over time. The article further highlights stories of frustrations and celebrations that surround CBDRR activities implemented by one local community in a dryland village in eastern Indonesia.

scholarly journals Reflection of Challenges and Opportunities within the COVID-19 Pandemic to Include Biological Hazards into DRR Planning

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 1614
Author(s):  
Emily Ying Yang Chan ◽  
Caroline Dubois ◽  
Ada Ho Yin Fong ◽  
Rajib Shaw ◽  
Ranit Chatterjee ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Risk Reduction ◽  
Digital Literacy ◽  
Disaster Risk Reduction ◽  
Disaster Risk ◽  
World Health ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Risk Governance ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Health Organization

COVID-19 has reinforced the need to revisit the integration of health within disaster risk reduction (DRR) strategies for biological hazards in a system-wide approach. In November 2020, DRR experts attended the Asia-Pacific Partnership for Disaster Risk Reduction (APP-DRR) Forum to share progress and learnings in the areas of health system resilience, data management, residual risk management, risk communication, digital literacy, and knowledge product marketing. Advancements for health in DRR included the importance of multi-sectoral, multi-hazard action plans; adaptation to technological advancements in data collection, dissemination and protection; promoting the health and wellbeing of essential and nonprofessional workers; and improving inclusivity in digital literacy. COVID-19 has affected progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and created a unique opportunity within DRR to re-evaluate the adequacy of response mechanisms against concurrent, cascading or interacting risks of future biological hazards. Health emergency disaster risk management (Health-EDRM) is a new World Health Organization paradigm that includes DRR at intra-, inter- and multidisciplinary levels. Scientific advancement under Health-EDRM is necessary for health and non-health actors in DRR education and research. Continuous education on the multifaceted risk governance is a key to building awareness, capacity and accelerating towards achieving the international DRR and the SDG targets.

scholarly journals Enhancing Integration of Disaster Risk and Climate Change Adaptation into Irish Emergency Planning

2021 ◽  
pp. 83-108
Author(s):  
Peter Medway ◽  
Stephen Flood ◽  
Dug Cubie ◽  
Martin Le Tissier
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Risk Reduction ◽  
Climate Change Adaptation ◽  
Disaster Risk Reduction ◽  
Disaster Risk ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Comprehensive Overview ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Survey Responses

AbstractThis chapter critically assesses the integration of climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction with a special focus on the Irish policy and governance context. The chapter first presents a comprehensive overview of the Irish policy environment for climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction including its current level of integration. Analysis of alignment with global and regional drivers of integration is then considered. Next, drawing on empirical research conducted with multidisciplinary experts across the Republic of Ireland, the chapter employs the SHIELD model, developed by the EU-funded ESPREssO project, which outlines six pathways to enhance integration across the domains of climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction. The pathways comprise of sharing knowledge, harmonising capacities, institutionalising coordination, engaging stakeholders, leveraging investments and developing communication. Findings of stakeholder focus groups and survey responses highlight the challenges and opportunities for impactful integration between climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction in Ireland from a practitioner perspective across the six SHIELD pathways. Finally, conclusions from the study indicate the importance of governance, management and coordination of systems for climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction; the sequencing of policy-making, planning and research; and the significance of specificity in relation to use of the six SHIELD pathways.

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