journal
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37450584/organised-crisis-volunteers-covid-19-and-the-political-steering-of-crisis-management-in-sweden
#21
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Malin E Wimelius, Veronica Strandh
This article explores and analyses the activities of Swedish organised crisis volunteers during Covid-19. Based on a questionnaire and interviews, we set out to answer research questions on what characterised organised volunteerism during the pandemic, how organised volunteers experienced cooperation with local public actors and how they view political steering. We contribute to a growing literature on the role of volunteers and link that role to views on political steering, something that is rarely done in disaster research...
July 14, 2023: Disasters
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37450581/counter-terrorism-and-humanitarian-action-uk-ingo-responses-since-2015
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Sam Nadel, Oliver Walton
There has been growing awareness of the wide-ranging negative impacts that counter-terrorism measures and sanctions impose on humanitarian action. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with INGO staff, this article examines these impacts for INGOs based in the UK, a context where a particularly complex array of laws, policies and regulatory regimes have emerged alongside an increasingly hostile political and media environment for INGOs, creating an environment characterised by uncertainty. We show that counter-terrorism measures and sanctions are leading INGOs to adopt more conservative approaches to partnership in areas controlled by proscribed groups, undermining broader commitments to the localisation agenda...
July 14, 2023: Disasters
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37450558/recovering-the-status-quo-tipping-points-and-earthquake-aftermaths-in-colonial-india
#23
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Daniel Haines
Scholars debate how far natural hazards cause or catalyse political change. This article builds on recent scholarship on tipping points and social contracts to argue that two case studies of historical earthquakes in 1930s British-colonized India invite a focus on the dynamics of cooperation and conflict between state and non-state actors. Officials of the colonial state and its nationalist rivals cooperated after one earthquake even though they otherwise bitterly opposed each other. Cooperation broke down after the second, just one year later...
July 14, 2023: Disasters
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37278567/obituary-douglas-paton-1955-2023
#24
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(no author information available yet)
No abstract text is available yet for this article.
July 2023: Disasters
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37341433/the-warming-city-the-increasing-risk-of-summer-fires-in-delhi
#25
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Greg Bankoff, Sarika Chakravarty, Steve Jordan
Rising temperatures are mainly associated with wildfires but the incidence of fire may also increase in the urban context. Yet, fire in Delhi, as elsewhere in the towns and cities of the global South, remains largely invisible despite the nearly 11 million people each year who are burnt severely enough to require medical attention. This article focuses on whether summer temperatures in Delhi are rising and whether higher temperatures and lower humidity contribute to a greater number of urban fires. The data strongly suggest a relationship between the warming city, an increasing number of summer fires, and rising global temperatures...
June 21, 2023: Disasters
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37278608/is-male-out-migration-associated-with-women-s-participation-in-post-disaster-rebuilding-evidence-from-post-earthquake-nepal
#26
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Shana Scogin
How does male out-migration impact women's experience during post-disaster reconstruction? This paper employs survey data collected by Nepal's Housing Recovery Reconstruction Platform in 2018 to establish robust associations between male out-migration and three indicators of women's participation in rebuilding their private houses after the 2015 Gorkha earthquake: 1.) knowing where to consult for information, 2.) visiting a local government official by oneself, and 3.) signing a rebuilding agreement with the local government...
June 6, 2023: Disasters
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37227427/disaster-solidarity-and-survivor-ethics-a-case-study-of-hurricane-mar%C3%A3-a-in-puerto-rico
#27
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Robert W Schrauf, Patria C López de Victoria Rodríguez
Liminal periods of disaster solidarity in the aftermath of disaster are a common experience for many survivors. These periods have a specifically ethical component in that people spontaneously engage in collective, altruistic action and magnanimously expand their ethical focus beyond normative social distinctions and hierarchies. Inevitably, however, such solidarity seems to wane, and people return to pre-disaster patterns of interaction. Nevertheless, some individuals move beyond opportune acts of assistance to more extensive re-organizations of their lives during the recovery period and re-shape their ethical commitments in new and durable directions...
May 25, 2023: Disasters
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37227415/evidence-of-policy-learning-in-emergency-declarations-as-communication-tools-in-australia
#28
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Ben Beccari
Emergency declarations are important legal tools for the state to protect itself and its citizens during times of crisis. State of emergency declarations provide for extraordinary powers to be exercised to address an emergency or disaster. Emergency declarations present an opportunity to examine policy learning in crises, through the ability to examine emergency declaration instruments and the detail of post-emergency inquiries and reviews. This research briefly examines Australian law that provides for emergency declarations and places it in the context of theories of policy learning and change...
May 25, 2023: Disasters
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37212533/defining-collecting-and-sharing-perishable-disaster-data
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Rachel M Adams, Candace M Evans, Lori Peek
An immense amount of data is available immediately prior to, during, and in the direct aftermath of a disaster. This information is often referred to by hazards and disaster researchers as perishable data. Social scientists, engineers, and natural scientists have been collecting this type of data for decades, yet it is neither consistently defined nor discussed in specific detail in the literature. To address this gap in knowledge, this article seeks to clarify the meaning of perishable data and provide guidance on ways to improve how it is collected and shared...
May 22, 2023: Disasters
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37200457/conceptualizing-multiple-hazards-and-cascading-effects-on-critical-infrastructures
#30
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Karina Barquet, Mathilda Englund, Katarina Inga, Karin André, Lisa Segnestam
Despite increased research in "multiple hazards" and "cascading effects", there remains terminological ambiguity of the concepts. In this paper, we review the literature to explore how these two concepts are defined in relation to critical infrastructures and their vital societal functions. We then investigate how the concepts are operationalized in Swedish disaster risk management. Findings indicate that despite a wealth of methodologies assessing multiple hazards and their cascading effects, these are rarely used by local planners suggesting a gap between scientific approaches and practical implementation...
May 18, 2023: Disasters
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37192426/community-resilience-across-australia-towards-natural-hazards-an-application-of-the-conjoint-community-resiliency-assessment-measurement
#31
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Kerstin K Zander, Rifka Sibarani, Matthew Abunyewah, Michael Odei Erdiaw-Kwasie, Simon A Moss, Jonatan Lassa, Stephen T Garnett
Natural hazards can turn into disasters when not managed well. An important part of disaster risk reduction is to understand how well communities are prepared for natural hazards and how well they can cope with and recover from shocks in the long-term. In this study we assess self-reported community resilience and ask what makes a community resilient, using Australia as a case study. We conducted an Australian-wide online survey which included questions related to the Conjoint Community Resiliency Assessment Measurement (CCRAM-10), a subjective indicator of community resilience, as well as questions about risk perception, well-being and self-efficacy...
May 16, 2023: Disasters
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37172110/divergent-dynamics-disasters-and-conflict-as-drivers-of-internal-displacement
#32
JOURNAL ARTICLE
David James Cantor
Disasters and conflicts are both widely recognised as 'drivers' of internal displacement. But, despite a growing body of research and policy, there has been little consideration of how the different features of each 'context' shape the micro-level dynamics of internal displacement. Where and why are these dynamics similar across the two contexts and how do they differ? This paper draws on general concepts from the disaster field to develop a comparative analytical model of internal displacement dynamics in the disaster and conflict contexts...
May 12, 2023: Disasters
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37159567/in-the-arena-contesting-disaster-creation-in-cities
#33
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Wesley Webb Cheek, Ksenia Chmutina, Jason von Meding
Space is a feature of all disasters - and it is through decisions about how space is developed, used, and reproduced that disasters are manifested. Critical urban theory sees urban space - cities - as an arena of contestation expressed through the relationship between people, power, and the built environment. Cities allow for an unpacking of this process of contestation through the interpretation of various temporal, spatial, social, physical elements that together create complex issues and 'wicked problems...
May 9, 2023: Disasters
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37115625/information-dissemination-during-public-health-emergencies-analysing-the-international-flow-of-covid-19-related-news
#34
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Hua Guo, Jiandong Zhang, Shihui Feng, Anrong Fan, Yanli Zhou, Minhong Wang
A large-scale exchange of information between media across national borders is often observed when a global public health emergency occurs. This study investigated the global news citation network in the early stage of the COVID-19 pandemic by analyzing the network structure at different levels to identify important nodes and the relationships among news organizations. The results show that COVID-19 related international news flow had a complex and unequal pattern, with a few countries and media outlets occuping a prominent place in the network and three media groups (international news agencies, media in and around the country where the event arose, and regional news aggregators) played important but different roles in disseminating the news...
April 28, 2023: Disasters
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37185877/corrigendum
#35
(no author information available yet)
No abstract text is available yet for this article.
April 25, 2023: Disasters
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37096657/disasters-and-corruption-public-expectations-and-tolerance-evidence-from-mexico
#36
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Vincent T Gawronski, Barry S Levitt, Richard S Olson
Disaster corruption is a vexing problem, damaging state legitimacy and exacerbating human suffering. Mexico has a history of both major disasters and persistently high levels of corruption. A 2017 earthquake provided an opportunity to study change over time in expectations for, and tolerance of, corruption in disaster relief. Twenty years earlier, Mexico City residents expected, on average, essentially 3 out of 10 hypothetical trucks with humanitarian assistance to be lost to corruption but expressed near zero tolerance for such corruption...
April 25, 2023: Disasters
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37096656/building-rural-community-disaster-resilience-in-developing-countries-insights-from-a-chinese-ngo-s-safe-rural-community-program
#37
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Yi Lu, Yujie Wang, Chengyan Zhan
As rural areas in developing countries are generally more vulnerable to disasters triggered by natural hazards than urban areas, it has become critical to strengthen rural community disaster resilience (CDR) to reduce the disaster risks. Using follow-up interviews, surveys, and secondary data, this study reviewed the "Safe Rural Community" (SRC) program implemented by One Foundation, a Chinese civilian NGO, after the 2013 Lushan earthquake in China. The study focused on five main key resilience elements; networks, infrastructure, institutions, capabilities, and culture...
April 25, 2023: Disasters
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37086026/disaster-preparedness-and-community-helping-behaviour-in-the-wake-of-the-2020-oregon-wildfires
#38
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Muhammad Usman Amin Siddiqi, Leanne Giordono, Chad Zanocco, Greg Stelmach, June Flora, Hilary Boudet
Extreme weather events are increasing in frequency and severity due to climate change. Individual-level behavioral responses - including disaster preparedness and community helping actions (e.g., volunteering, donating) - supplement government efforts to respond to such events but have rarely been explored together. Using data from a survey of 1308 Oregonians administered within 6 months of the 2020 Oregon wildfires, we examine and compare a range of sociodemographic, experiential, attitudinal, and communication-related factors associated with these two types of individual-level behavioral responses...
April 21, 2023: Disasters
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37066840/corporate-sector-engagement-in-contemporary-crises-the-case-of-refugee-integration-in-germany
#39
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Tanja R Müller
Refugee integration is one of the global challenges of the present, a time when the corporate sector is regarded as a key actor in multi-stakeholder partnerships through the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. In this paper I examine the role of the corporate sector as a partner of the state in addressing the movement of a large number of refugees into Germany in 2015 and after. Based on interview data and informal conversations collected between 2017 to 2020 with members of Wir Zusammen, an integration initiative of the corporate sector, supplemented by a review of relevant business reports and media documentation, I discuss the multi-facetted engagements by parts of the corporate sector in Germany with refugee integration...
April 17, 2023: Disasters
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37036045/fighting-with-words-humanitarian-security-and-the-changing-role-of-law-in-contemporary-armed-conflict
#40
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Iida-Maria Tammi
Violence against humanitarians is a commonplace phenomenon in contemporary armed conflict. This paper examines how the manipulation of international legal principles for political or military purposes, practice known as 'lawfare', impacts humanitarian security in conflict-affected areas. Drawing on a case study of the Syrian conflict (2011-ongoing), it finds that lawfare has been used to legitimate systematic civilian targeting by pro-government forces and to delegitimise aid delivery to opposition-held areas of the country...
April 10, 2023: Disasters
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