Disaster is a social phenomenon. The occurrence and impacts of disasters including the education sector can be studied through a social problem lens. This paper draws meaning and understanding of DRR education using t...Disaster is a social phenomenon. The occurrence and impacts of disasters including the education sector can be studied through a social problem lens. This paper draws meaning and understanding of DRR education using the sociological disciplinary framework in a detailed qualitative case study of three schools as they responded to the devastating Gorakha earthquake in 2015 and other disasters in Nepal. This paper considers the three sub-disciplines of sociology: the sociology of disaster, the sociology of education and the sociology of education governance in a development context. These sub-disciplines are nested together to analyse social, political and historical factors and their relationships which are helpful to identify risks and vulnerabilities in the education sector in Nepal. These are the major areas to explore the disaster context and needs of context-specific education acts (hereafter DRR education) to minimise the potential risks of disasters. The article concludes that the social disciplinary framework is significantly useful to analyse DRR education provisions and implications of education governance to mobilise school in disaster preparedness, response and recovery.展开更多
This study was conducted to develop a comprehensive framework for empowering women who work in disaster risk governance in Sri Lanka.Women's empowerment in disaster risk governance has been identified as a strateg...This study was conducted to develop a comprehensive framework for empowering women who work in disaster risk governance in Sri Lanka.Women's empowerment in disaster risk governance has been identified as a strategy to reduce women's vulnerability to disasters and strengthen the disaster risk governance system towards building a resilient society.The study was conducted within the Sri Lankan disaster preparedness system because of the high disaster profile and the lower level of women's empowerment in the decision-making system.A case study strategy was employed for data collection.Three highly disaster-prone districts were selected and we conducted 26 semistructured case study interviews.In addition,14 expert interviews were conducted for better triangulating the results.Thematic analysis and cognitive mapping were adopted for data analysis and identifying strategies.Based on the study findings,a comprehensive framework was developed with four intervention mechanisms:individual,community,organizational,and legislative.Each group of interventions was divided into primary and secondary actions based on their priorities.The validated framework will guide policymakers and practitioners in supporting women's empowerment in governance with the ultimate objective of enhancing societal resilience.展开更多
Ten years after the adoption of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030,disaster risk governance remains one of its most ambitious yet unevenly implemented priorities,particularly in African contex...Ten years after the adoption of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030,disaster risk governance remains one of its most ambitious yet unevenly implemented priorities,particularly in African contexts.While Priority 2 articulates a comprehensive vision of inclusive,coordinated,and multisectoral governance,many African countries continue to operate without updated disaster legislation or coherent institutional frameworks.This study critically examined how Priority 2 has been interpreted and operationalized in five African countries—Kenya,Nigeria,Egypt,Namibia,and the Democratic Republic of Congo—drawing on qualitative document analysis and a thematic framework derived from the Sendai Framework governance dimensions.The study found partial alignment with Sendai Framework's aspirations,especially in legal reforms,multilevel planning,and stakeholder engagement in countries like Kenya and Namibia.However,persistent gaps remain in integrating disaster risk reduction into sectoral policies,institutionalizing participation,and ensuring transparency and accountability.The Sendai Framework's emphasis on technocratic coordination and universal governance models often overlooks power dynamics,historical inequalities,and informal institutional realities,limiting its transformative potential.Participation is frequently symbolic rather than substantive,and risk is treated as a technical variable rather than a product of structural vulnerability.These findings underscore the need to move beyond compliance-driven governance models toward more context-sensitive,adaptive,and justice-oriented approaches.As global risk landscapes evolve,the post-2030 agenda must prioritize institutional learning,power redistribution,and inclusive decision making.展开更多
The purpose of this article is to analyze disaster risk governance through assemblage theory, identifying how-during the altered political context of a military regime with a centralized disaster risk management as in...The purpose of this article is to analyze disaster risk governance through assemblage theory, identifying how-during the altered political context of a military regime with a centralized disaster risk management as in the case of Chile in 1985-new actors emerge during the disaster response phase as a de/reterritorialization effect that is influenced by their agencies and relationships, disfiguring the edges of the assemblage. Based on this conceptualization, it is possible to investigate the interactions between the different actors, their power relations, and their reconfigurations in the governance exercise. For this purpose, we reviewed the response phase of the 1985 San Antonio earthquake that affected the central zone of Chile, where strategic functions, institutions, and forms of power are concentrated.To describe and visualize the actors during the response phase in the disaster risk governance framework, a map of actors was developed that identifies the existing relationships and their different weights. The central scale proved to be dominant and occupied a political space that was transfigured by its overrepresentation-enforced by allies such as the banking system and business associations-enhancing a neoliberal agenda. The leaps in scale from the central scale to the local scale cancel agency of the last, destabilizing its capacity to deal with the effects of the earthquake and isolating it from the decision-making processes. Consequently,delays in providing aid demonstrate that authoritarian governments do not provide better management in the disaster response phase.展开更多
In this article,we recall the United Nations’30-year journey in disaster risk reduction strategy and framework,review the latest progress and key scientific and technological questions related to the United Nations d...In this article,we recall the United Nations’30-year journey in disaster risk reduction strategy and framework,review the latest progress and key scientific and technological questions related to the United Nations disaster risk reduction initiatives,and summarize the framework and contents of disaster risk science research.The object of disaster risk science research is the"disaster system"consisting of hazard,the geographical environment,and exposed units,with features of regionality,interconnectedness,coupling,and complexity.Environmental stability,hazard threat,and socioeconomic vulnerability together determine the way that disasters are formed,establish the spatial extent of disaster impact,and generate the scale of losses.In the formation of a disaster,a conducive environment is the prerequisite,a hazard is the necessary condition,and socioeconomic exposure is the sufficient condition.The geographical environment affects local hazard intensity and therefore can change the pattern of loss distribution.Regional multi-hazard,disaster chain,and disaster compound could induce complex impacts,amplifying or attenuating hazard intensity and changing the scope of affected areas.In the light of research progress,particularly in the context of China,we propose a threelayer disaster risk science disciplinary structure,which contains three pillars(disaster science,disaster technology,and disaster governance),nine core areas,and 27 research fields.Based on these elements,we discuss the frontiers in disaster risk science research.展开更多
This article presents a comprehensive review of China's policy system for the management of natural hazard-induced disasters from 1949 to 2016 through a quantitative bibliometric analysis of 5472 policy documents ...This article presents a comprehensive review of China's policy system for the management of natural hazard-induced disasters from 1949 to 2016 through a quantitative bibliometric analysis of 5472 policy documents on such disasters. It identifies four phases of China's evolving disaster management system, which focused on agriculture, economic development, government and professional capacity building, and disaster governance,respectively. Characteristics of policies and contributing factors of policy change in each of the four phases are discussed in depth. This article provides a quantitative foundation for understanding the dynamic policy change of the disaster management system in China with a particular emphasis on the governance capacity and may serve as a basis for exploring the potential pathways of transformation according to the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals.展开更多
Bangladesh is renowned in disaster risk reduction(DRR)for active involvement of community people and local disaster management institutions in DRR activities.Our study aimed to describe the disaster risk management(DR...Bangladesh is renowned in disaster risk reduction(DRR)for active involvement of community people and local disaster management institutions in DRR activities.Our study aimed to describe the disaster risk management(DRM)institutions and assess their functioning in six coastal unions across the three coastal zones of Bangladesh.Both qualitative and quantitative research approaches were used.The study focused on two key local institutions—the Union Disaster Management Committees(UDMCs)and the Cyclone Preparedness Program(CPP)—functioning at the union level in DRM.Such institutions have both horizontal and vertical collaborations with other institutions.However,we argue that the UDMCs'external dependencies in their functioning indicate their limited financial and administrative autonomy,which is a barrier to successfully institutionalizing disaster management.The results show that the CPP is the most successful program,markedly increasing the trust of the people in warning dissemination and evacuation efforts in the event of a cyclone.Although the adoption of decentralized risk management systems has resulted in significant progress in increased rate of evacuation and reduced death rate and damage,lack of funding and equipment,limited coordination between institutions,lack of skilled and knowledgeable workforce,and inappropriate power structures may reduce the effectiveness of DRR activities prior to,during,and following disasters.展开更多
China has long been criticized for media censorship and a recently discussed draft law on handling sudden events, which would see news media fined for reporting on emergencies without government approval, has again pu...China has long been criticized for media censorship and a recently discussed draft law on handling sudden events, which would see news media fined for reporting on emergencies without government approval, has again put China at the center of wide-ranging criticism. The draft law was submitted to the Standing Committee of the展开更多
The malleable nature of both the idea of a city and the idea of resilience raises an important question—why measure?Resilience is assumed to be located in the physical infrastructure of specific places or as a qualit...The malleable nature of both the idea of a city and the idea of resilience raises an important question—why measure?Resilience is assumed to be located in the physical infrastructure of specific places or as a quality of the people located there.For disasters,we are often trying to conceptualize,measure,or render legible resilience in physical structures.But what is it that we are trying to measure,and is the idea of a city reflected in these measurements?If cities are organized around something other than resilience,is resilience their natural by-product?What is necessitating the need for increased—and measured—resilience?Using interpretive policy analysis,we explored five well known disaster resilience frameworks(UNDRR's Making Cities Resilient Campaign,UN-Habitat's City Resilience Profiling Programme,The World Bank and GFDRR's Resilient Cities Program,Arup and The Rockefeller Foundation's City Resilience Index,and The Rockefeller Foundation's 100 Resilient Cities)to identify the working definition of‘‘city''and of‘‘resilience.''We conclude that if the demand for cities to become more resilient is an acknowledgment of the risk produced by globalized urbanization,then the call itself is an indictment of the current state of our cities.展开更多
文摘Disaster is a social phenomenon. The occurrence and impacts of disasters including the education sector can be studied through a social problem lens. This paper draws meaning and understanding of DRR education using the sociological disciplinary framework in a detailed qualitative case study of three schools as they responded to the devastating Gorakha earthquake in 2015 and other disasters in Nepal. This paper considers the three sub-disciplines of sociology: the sociology of disaster, the sociology of education and the sociology of education governance in a development context. These sub-disciplines are nested together to analyse social, political and historical factors and their relationships which are helpful to identify risks and vulnerabilities in the education sector in Nepal. These are the major areas to explore the disaster context and needs of context-specific education acts (hereafter DRR education) to minimise the potential risks of disasters. The article concludes that the social disciplinary framework is significantly useful to analyse DRR education provisions and implications of education governance to mobilise school in disaster preparedness, response and recovery.
文摘This study was conducted to develop a comprehensive framework for empowering women who work in disaster risk governance in Sri Lanka.Women's empowerment in disaster risk governance has been identified as a strategy to reduce women's vulnerability to disasters and strengthen the disaster risk governance system towards building a resilient society.The study was conducted within the Sri Lankan disaster preparedness system because of the high disaster profile and the lower level of women's empowerment in the decision-making system.A case study strategy was employed for data collection.Three highly disaster-prone districts were selected and we conducted 26 semistructured case study interviews.In addition,14 expert interviews were conducted for better triangulating the results.Thematic analysis and cognitive mapping were adopted for data analysis and identifying strategies.Based on the study findings,a comprehensive framework was developed with four intervention mechanisms:individual,community,organizational,and legislative.Each group of interventions was divided into primary and secondary actions based on their priorities.The validated framework will guide policymakers and practitioners in supporting women's empowerment in governance with the ultimate objective of enhancing societal resilience.
文摘Ten years after the adoption of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030,disaster risk governance remains one of its most ambitious yet unevenly implemented priorities,particularly in African contexts.While Priority 2 articulates a comprehensive vision of inclusive,coordinated,and multisectoral governance,many African countries continue to operate without updated disaster legislation or coherent institutional frameworks.This study critically examined how Priority 2 has been interpreted and operationalized in five African countries—Kenya,Nigeria,Egypt,Namibia,and the Democratic Republic of Congo—drawing on qualitative document analysis and a thematic framework derived from the Sendai Framework governance dimensions.The study found partial alignment with Sendai Framework's aspirations,especially in legal reforms,multilevel planning,and stakeholder engagement in countries like Kenya and Namibia.However,persistent gaps remain in integrating disaster risk reduction into sectoral policies,institutionalizing participation,and ensuring transparency and accountability.The Sendai Framework's emphasis on technocratic coordination and universal governance models often overlooks power dynamics,historical inequalities,and informal institutional realities,limiting its transformative potential.Participation is frequently symbolic rather than substantive,and risk is treated as a technical variable rather than a product of structural vulnerability.These findings underscore the need to move beyond compliance-driven governance models toward more context-sensitive,adaptive,and justice-oriented approaches.As global risk landscapes evolve,the post-2030 agenda must prioritize institutional learning,power redistribution,and inclusive decision making.
文摘The purpose of this article is to analyze disaster risk governance through assemblage theory, identifying how-during the altered political context of a military regime with a centralized disaster risk management as in the case of Chile in 1985-new actors emerge during the disaster response phase as a de/reterritorialization effect that is influenced by their agencies and relationships, disfiguring the edges of the assemblage. Based on this conceptualization, it is possible to investigate the interactions between the different actors, their power relations, and their reconfigurations in the governance exercise. For this purpose, we reviewed the response phase of the 1985 San Antonio earthquake that affected the central zone of Chile, where strategic functions, institutions, and forms of power are concentrated.To describe and visualize the actors during the response phase in the disaster risk governance framework, a map of actors was developed that identifies the existing relationships and their different weights. The central scale proved to be dominant and occupied a political space that was transfigured by its overrepresentation-enforced by allies such as the banking system and business associations-enhancing a neoliberal agenda. The leaps in scale from the central scale to the local scale cancel agency of the last, destabilizing its capacity to deal with the effects of the earthquake and isolating it from the decision-making processes. Consequently,delays in providing aid demonstrate that authoritarian governments do not provide better management in the disaster response phase.
基金financially supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China,“Global Change Risks of Population and Economic Systems Mechanisms and Assessments,”Grant No.2016YFA0602404。
文摘In this article,we recall the United Nations’30-year journey in disaster risk reduction strategy and framework,review the latest progress and key scientific and technological questions related to the United Nations disaster risk reduction initiatives,and summarize the framework and contents of disaster risk science research.The object of disaster risk science research is the"disaster system"consisting of hazard,the geographical environment,and exposed units,with features of regionality,interconnectedness,coupling,and complexity.Environmental stability,hazard threat,and socioeconomic vulnerability together determine the way that disasters are formed,establish the spatial extent of disaster impact,and generate the scale of losses.In the formation of a disaster,a conducive environment is the prerequisite,a hazard is the necessary condition,and socioeconomic exposure is the sufficient condition.The geographical environment affects local hazard intensity and therefore can change the pattern of loss distribution.Regional multi-hazard,disaster chain,and disaster compound could induce complex impacts,amplifying or attenuating hazard intensity and changing the scope of affected areas.In the light of research progress,particularly in the context of China,we propose a threelayer disaster risk science disciplinary structure,which contains three pillars(disaster science,disaster technology,and disaster governance),nine core areas,and 27 research fields.Based on these elements,we discuss the frontiers in disaster risk science research.
基金the support of the National Social Science Fund of China for Outstanding Project(#10AGL011)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities
文摘This article presents a comprehensive review of China's policy system for the management of natural hazard-induced disasters from 1949 to 2016 through a quantitative bibliometric analysis of 5472 policy documents on such disasters. It identifies four phases of China's evolving disaster management system, which focused on agriculture, economic development, government and professional capacity building, and disaster governance,respectively. Characteristics of policies and contributing factors of policy change in each of the four phases are discussed in depth. This article provides a quantitative foundation for understanding the dynamic policy change of the disaster management system in China with a particular emphasis on the governance capacity and may serve as a basis for exploring the potential pathways of transformation according to the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals.
基金VLIR-UOS (FlemishInter-Universities Council) for providing funding for the Ph.D.study of Mohammad Abdul Quader
文摘Bangladesh is renowned in disaster risk reduction(DRR)for active involvement of community people and local disaster management institutions in DRR activities.Our study aimed to describe the disaster risk management(DRM)institutions and assess their functioning in six coastal unions across the three coastal zones of Bangladesh.Both qualitative and quantitative research approaches were used.The study focused on two key local institutions—the Union Disaster Management Committees(UDMCs)and the Cyclone Preparedness Program(CPP)—functioning at the union level in DRM.Such institutions have both horizontal and vertical collaborations with other institutions.However,we argue that the UDMCs'external dependencies in their functioning indicate their limited financial and administrative autonomy,which is a barrier to successfully institutionalizing disaster management.The results show that the CPP is the most successful program,markedly increasing the trust of the people in warning dissemination and evacuation efforts in the event of a cyclone.Although the adoption of decentralized risk management systems has resulted in significant progress in increased rate of evacuation and reduced death rate and damage,lack of funding and equipment,limited coordination between institutions,lack of skilled and knowledgeable workforce,and inappropriate power structures may reduce the effectiveness of DRR activities prior to,during,and following disasters.
文摘China has long been criticized for media censorship and a recently discussed draft law on handling sudden events, which would see news media fined for reporting on emergencies without government approval, has again put China at the center of wide-ranging criticism. The draft law was submitted to the Standing Committee of the
文摘The malleable nature of both the idea of a city and the idea of resilience raises an important question—why measure?Resilience is assumed to be located in the physical infrastructure of specific places or as a quality of the people located there.For disasters,we are often trying to conceptualize,measure,or render legible resilience in physical structures.But what is it that we are trying to measure,and is the idea of a city reflected in these measurements?If cities are organized around something other than resilience,is resilience their natural by-product?What is necessitating the need for increased—and measured—resilience?Using interpretive policy analysis,we explored five well known disaster resilience frameworks(UNDRR's Making Cities Resilient Campaign,UN-Habitat's City Resilience Profiling Programme,The World Bank and GFDRR's Resilient Cities Program,Arup and The Rockefeller Foundation's City Resilience Index,and The Rockefeller Foundation's 100 Resilient Cities)to identify the working definition of‘‘city''and of‘‘resilience.''We conclude that if the demand for cities to become more resilient is an acknowledgment of the risk produced by globalized urbanization,then the call itself is an indictment of the current state of our cities.
