Sharing Knowledge on Disaster Risk Reduction in the Himalayan Region; Proceedings for two workshops on planning processes, social inclusion, and local knowledge for disaster preparedness

Disaster risk reduction is an ever-growing concept and finds its application within various disciplines. This article investigates the development of disaster risk reduction and some of the most important aspects which shaped it. The early years of international disaster relief are discussed and it is shown how a change in this system was necessitated by a variety of factors and international disasters, which exposed its weakness. The article argues that disaster relief and development aid were inextricably linked and it is this linkage which provided a catalyst for questioning the manner in which relief, and development assistance, were provided. The later emphasis on disaster preparedness and management is discussed, and international policies and mechanisms, which contributed to a gradual shift in focus towards disaster risk reduction, enjoy attention. The article concludes that solutions to disaster risks lie within a rigorous trans- disciplinary focus.

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Active Learning and Disaster Risk Reduction

Advances in Environmental Engineering and Green Technologies - Building Sustainability Through Environmental Education ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-7727-0.ch008 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 166-189

Author(s):

LaMesha Lashal Craft

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

United Nations ◽

Risk Reduction ◽

Disaster Preparedness ◽

Disaster Risk Reduction ◽

Disaster Risk ◽

Media Technology ◽

Resilient Communities ◽

The United Nations ◽

Social Media Technology

The author provides a robust discussion of an ethnographic case study to facilitate creative thinking about how to use communications and social media technology to build resilience and improve citizen disaster preparedness through a “Be Ready” trivia campaign. This research can inform strategies to achieve several of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as well as the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction's Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (SFDRR). Future research directions include a new community resilience index that measures citizens' use of communications and social media technology. Implications for social change include raising the level of public awareness and facilitating a means to improve personal responsibility for disaster preparedness through low cost education programs. This could improve efforts by government and non-government organizations to improve disaster risk reduction; increase access to information and communication technology; increase disaster emergency planning and response; and build resilient communities.

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Disaster Risk Reduction in Schools: The Relationship of Knowledge and Attitudes Towards Preparedness from Elementary School Students in School-Based Disaster Preparedness in the Mentawai Islands, Indonesia

Prehospital and Disaster Medicine ◽

10.1017/s1049023x18000778 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 33 (6) ◽

pp. 581-586

Author(s):

Sujarwo ◽

Noorhamdani ◽

Mukhamad Fathoni

Keyword(s):

Risk Reduction ◽

Disaster Preparedness ◽

Disaster Risk Reduction ◽

Disaster Risk ◽

School Students ◽

Mentawai Islands ◽

Knowledge And Attitudes ◽

School Based ◽

Relationship Of ◽

Mentawai Island

AbstractIntroductionLocated in the Sunda Megathrust zone, Mentawai Island is known as the epicenter of an active earthquake that has the potential to cause a tsunami. Students would be one of the most vulnerable groups during the disaster.ProblemThe low-level of School-Based Disaster Preparedness/Sekolah Siaga Bencana (SSB) of students’ preparedness in disaster risk reduction (DRR) can lead to increased vulnerability of students in facing disaster threats, especially a tsunami.MethodsThe study employed observational, correlative analytics with a cross-sectional approach. The sample includes 109 students from fifth and sixth grade in three elementary schools in Sipora, Mentawai Island district.ResultsThere was a significant influence between knowledge and attitude towards the preparedness of SSB students in DRR in Sipora, Mentawai Islands district.Conclusions:Knowledge and attitudes are key factors that must be taken into account in efforts to increase student preparedness to reduce the risk of a tsunami disaster.Sujarwo, Noorhamdani, Fathoni M. Disaster risk reduction in schools: the relationship of knowledge and attitudes towards preparedness from elementary school students in school-based disaster preparedness in the Mentawai Islands, Indonesia. Prehosp Disaster Med. 2018;33(6):581–586.

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From theory to practice

10.1093/med/9780198807179.003.0006 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Emily Ying Yang Chan

Keyword(s):

Risk Reduction ◽

Disaster Preparedness ◽

Disaster Risk Reduction ◽

Field Experience ◽

Disaster Risk ◽

Project Planning ◽

Programme Implementation ◽

Actual Field ◽

Development Goals ◽

Abstract Framework

This chapter introduces some myths of health promotion, the project cycle of health and disaster preparedness education programmes, needs assessment, project planning, programme implementation and monitoring, programme evaluation, and notes for organizers and participants of health and disaster preparedness education programmes. Concrete examples will be provided to put the abstract framework into use. This chapter integrates the themes in previous chapters with relevant insights gained from actual field experience in Asia, focusing on programme implementation field experience and lessons learnt, as well as the practical challenges and problems encountered in the field in rural Asian settings. It will also discuss the field-policy nexus, that is, the fulfilment of policy ambitions in such international policy frameworks like the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (2015–2030), and the Paris Agreement for Climate Change by rural field programmes in health, emergency, and disaster risk reduction.

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Promoting gender sensitivity: Disaster risk reduction in Pakistan

Pakistan Journal of Women's Studies: Alam-e-Niswan ◽

10.46521/pjws.026.02.0006 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 26 (2) ◽

pp. 31-44

Author(s):

Afsheen Zeeshan ◽

Muhammad Bashir Khan

Keyword(s):

Risk Reduction ◽

Disaster Preparedness ◽

Disaster Risk Reduction ◽

Disaster Risk ◽

Road Map ◽

Gender Perception ◽

Pragmatic Information ◽

Global Action ◽

Policy Analysts ◽

And Gender

Gender sensitization is a theory that a maximum number of policy analysts discover easy to implement, but very few perform well. The same can be said about disaster risk reduction. When these two concerns are put together to mainstream gender into disaster risk reduction (DRR), concerned organizations and experts find gaps in planning and implementation of policies. This is not because the job is integrally challenging; rather, there is not adequate practical guidance and pragmatic information. This paper aims to increase awareness about gender issues in disaster risk reduction, to improve government capability to address gender problems in DRR and to encourage Pakistan’s government to incorporate gender perception into DRR legislatures, strategies and plans for sustainable development. The importance of the Beijing Agenda for global action on gender sensitive DRR and the Manila Declaration for Global Action on gender in climate change and DRR have been highlighted, with the help of information from other developing countries, to develop a road map for Pakistan. Capacity development and gender-aware knowledge products are the two main areas with the help of which concerns regarding gender sensitivity can be addressed in disaster preparedness, recovery and rehabilitation.

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Networks of Action in Catastrophic Events: The 11 March 2011 Tohoku-Oki Disasters

Earthquake Spectra ◽

10.1193/1.4000109 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 29 (1_suppl) ◽

pp. 387-402 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Louise K. Comfort ◽

Aya Okada ◽

Gunes Ertan

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Risk Reduction ◽

Disaster Risk Reduction ◽

Nuclear Reactor ◽

Organizational Management ◽

Disaster Risk ◽

Catastrophic Events ◽

Natural Systems ◽

Policy Problem ◽

Planning Processes

The 11 March 2011 Tohoku-oki, Japan, earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear reactor disasters shattered existing plans for decision making, preparedness, and response operations under conditions of uncertainty and risk. The interaction among these events created dynamics that could not be addressed by any single organization or jurisdiction alone and that had not been considered in the planning processes undertaken by separate jurisdictions and organizations. The scale and scope of devastation overwhelmed those responsible for protecting communities at every level of jurisdictional decision making and organizational management. We examine the policy problem of decision making involving interaction between human and natural systems, and review existing policies, plans, and practices that characterized efforts in disaster risk reduction in Japan prior to 11 March 2011. We contrast these plans with observed practices, focusing on interactions and communication flows among organizations engaged in responding to the disaster. These events demonstrate the compelling need to rethink catastrophe.

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Wisdom of Indigenous and Tacit Knowledge for Disaster Risk Reduction

Indonesian Journal of Geography ◽

10.22146/ijg.47321 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 52 (3) ◽

pp. 418

Author(s):

Furqan Ishak Aksa

Keyword(s):

Risk Reduction ◽

Tacit Knowledge ◽

Local Knowledge ◽

Knowledge Creation ◽

Disaster Risk Reduction ◽

Explicit Knowledge ◽

Disaster Risk ◽

Social Culture ◽

Types Of Knowledge ◽

Knowledge Based

This article aims to identify the types of knowledge needed in reducing the risk of disasters and challenges in applying knowledge. Based on the literature review, this article analyzes various kinds of knowledge, the process of knowledge creation, and the challenges of knowledge transmission. Basically, knowledge consists of explicit and tacit knowledge. In the context of disasters, most of the knowledge is tacit in individual local people (indigenous knowledge). Tacit knowledge can motivate someone to make decisions (act) when a disaster occurs. To be understood and disseminated to the wider community, tacit knowledge needs to be converted into explicit knowledge and scientifically validated. This article proposes the importance of integrating tacit knowledge in the form of local knowledge to become explicit knowledge so it can be widely used. Knowledge built in a bottom-up manner, which comes from local knowledge, is believed to be effective in disaster risk reduction. However, in some countries, the process of applying the knowledge is constrained by a fatalism that is influenced by social culture and religious beliefs.

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Awareness and Practices on Disaster Preparedness of Students of a Public High School in Antique

Philippine Social Science Journal ◽

10.52006/main.v3i2.210 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 3 (2) ◽

pp. 45-46

Author(s):

Gerry L. Ventura ◽

Dennis V. Madrigal

Keyword(s):

High School ◽

High School Students ◽

Risk Reduction ◽

Junior High School ◽

Disaster Preparedness ◽

Disaster Risk Reduction ◽

Disaster Risk ◽

Public High School ◽

School Students ◽

The Government

Disasters cause deaths and serious disruptions in society, which call for the global community to take drastic steps to address and reduce the impacts of these inevitable calamities. That is why the government, through the Philippine Disaster Risk Reduction Management Act of 2010, requires the integration of disaster risk reduction in the school curriculum to strengthen the awareness and practice of personnel and students on calamity preparedness. Hence, the paper assessed the level of awareness and extent of practice on disaster preparedness before, during, and after the disaster of public junior high school students in Antique. Likewise, it sought to establish a difference in awareness and practice on disaster preparedness relative to sex, residence, and grade level and the relationship between awareness and practice.

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