Community adaptation to cope with disaster related road structure failure

Gajanayake, Akvan; Mohseni, H; Zhang, Kevin; Mullett, Jane; Setunge, Sujeeva

doi:10.1016/j.proeng.2018.01.175

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“…Another observation about the projects was that they varied from area to area. In agreement, Gajanayake et al (2018) [67] believe that adaptation choices may differ depending on the affected community members, thus, influencing their disaster resilience. Post-disaster projects must prioritise and address community needs (NDMF, 2005) [68].…”

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Assessment of the Dynamics towards Effective and Efficient Post-Flood Disaster Adaptive Capacity and Resilience in South Africa

Nyide,

Simatele,

Grab

et al. 2023

Sustainability

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Government employees, municipal officials, and communities in South Africa have grappled with post-apartheid environmental challenges, such as floods, droughts, severe storms, and wildfires. These disasters are a result of both natural and human activities. The government implemented different policies and strategies after 1994 to address these issues. While acknowledging some success in managing these disasters with the current adaptive measures, the frequency and intensity of disasters have increased, causing significant damage to life and property, particularly among the vulnerable population. This paper uses qualitative and quantitative data collection approaches to explore possible systematic and structural weaknesses in addressing post-disaster situations in South Africa. Floods appear to be the most frequent natural disaster in South Africa. The paper uncovered the fact that disaster management is a multi-sectoral and multidisciplinary field. Although various institutional arrangements exist, they do not seem appropriate for assisting vulnerable groups. While officials have made some progress in implementing post-disaster projects, challenges still hinder sustainability. Furthermore, regrettably, despite the level of success in addressing disasters, most measures have failed to achieve the intended results for a variety of reasons. The consolidated long-term measures suggested by the participants yielded a proposed ‘South African Floods Post-Disaster Checklist or Model’, which was non-existent in South Africa. By implementing more effective and efficient post-disaster measures, the proposed tool can help policymakers and strategic partners standardise post-disaster resilience and adaptive capacity in various sectors’ sustainability contexts.

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confidence: 98%

Assessment of the Dynamics towards Effective and Efficient Post-Flood Disaster Adaptive Capacity and Resilience in South Africa

Nyide,

Simatele,

Grab

et al. 2023

Sustainability

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“…Anticipatory adaptation takes place before an event occurs and responds to assumptions about the future such as climate change projections or scenarios (Eisenack and Stecker, 2012). Reactive adaptation in contrast relies on resources and adaptive capabilities available after an event (Gajanayake, et al, 2018). Three broad categories of adaptation actions could be identified in the literature as technological, institutional and knowledge (Pielke Jr, 2004;Eisenack and Stecker, 2012;Biagini, et al, 2014).…”

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confidence: 99%

Infrastructure Financing for Climate Change Adaptation in Australia: Practitioners’ Perspectives

Gajanayake

Iyer‐Raniga

2022

CEB

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With increased climate-related risks and natural disasters, impacts on infrastructure assets are intensifying. As the need for adaptation actions increase, how finance is used to enable adaptation plays a vital role in the resilience of infrastructure. This research aims to understand how infrastructure adaptation measures are carried out, focusing on how financing is used to aid such efforts. Exploratory interviews with infrastructure and finance practitioners from a broad range of organisations were conducted to understand the dynamics of how infrastructure adaptation occurs. The findings reveal that infrastructure agencies conduct adaptation activities to maintain the serviceability of assets under climate change risks, with most climate financing targeting mitigation rather than adaptation. Most actions are taken at individual asset or agency level with little collaboration across agencies and sectors. The results illustrate a need for a more holistic, systems-level approach to adaptation across the infrastructure sector in Australia.

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“…The impact of a disaster can vary based on the type and frequency of the disaster and other socio-economic factors, level of preparedness prevalent in the area (Gajanayakea et al, 2018). Developing countries have an increasing number of deaths caused by natural disasters whereas, developed countries have greater economic losses (Keller et al 2015;Hyndman & Hayndman, 2017;Khanal, 1996).…”

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confidence: 99%

Disasters: Spatio-Temporal Distribution of Dhankuta District, Nepal

Linkha

2020

Rupantaran

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This paper attempts to analyze the temporal and spatial distribution of disaster in Dhanktua district, Nepal. It provides information regarding when and where the disasters have mostly occurred in Dhankuta. Disaster can occur at any time at anywhere although every disaster has a temporal and spatial dimension which helps to predict the future events In this context, this paper provides the history and trend of disasters in Dhankuta. This paper is based on mostly secondary data extracted from the Ministry of Home Affairs, Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) Portal. To analyze this, mostly descriptive methods has been applied where the quantitative method also applied for the reflection of disaster data. Fire, landslide, heavy rainfall and thunderbolt were the major disasters that frequently occurred in this district during 2017-2019. It is found that fire incidents were frequently occurred in the month of March, the landslide in July, heavy rainfall in July and thunderbolt in April. It is interesting that, those years where the incidents of fire were higher the incidents of the landslide were low and vice versa and there is a positive relationship between landslide and heavy rainfall. This study will important to local levels and relevant agencies for disaster preparedness because the impact of the disaster is based on the level of preparedness. This analysis is based on limited data which covered 10 March 2017 to 31 December 2019. This study provides a new perspective in the field of disaster where temporal and spatial dimensions are considered.

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Community adaptation to cope with disaster related road structure failure

Cited by 9 publications

References 11 publications

Assessment of the Dynamics towards Effective and Efficient Post-Flood Disaster Adaptive Capacity and Resilience in South Africa

Assessment of the Dynamics towards Effective and Efficient Post-Flood Disaster Adaptive Capacity and Resilience in South Africa

Infrastructure Financing for Climate Change Adaptation in Australia: Practitioners’ Perspectives

Disasters: Spatio-Temporal Distribution of Dhankuta District, Nepal

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