COVID-19: Lessons for Recovery. What can we learn from existing research on the long-term aspects of disaster risk and recovery?

Few, Roger; Chhotray, Vasudha; Tebboth, Mark; Forster, Johanna; White, Carole; Armijos, Teresa; Shelton, Clare

doi:10.5871/bac19stf/9780856726491.001

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“…The Covid-19 pandemic revealed shortcomings in the dominant single-hazard disaster management approaches and crisis response, which are often short-term in nature (Donoghoe et al, 2022). Despite previous lessons learned, Governments still tend to think of hazards as oneoff events with clear start and end dates, and providing an often narrow, technocratic response (Few et al, 2020). Systemic risks require systemic responses to build resilience (UNDRR Stakeholder Engagement Mechanism, 2021;Singh, 2021).…”

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“…Specifically, such an approach helps focus attention on the formation and incentives of actors and institutions within such contexts, allows an understanding how political settlements have occurred, and explains why some groups may trust the state and policy interventions less than other groups within the same contexts (Khan Mohmand, 2020, p. 3). Few et al (2020) in a British Academy paper highlight key insights from research on other crisis situations to inform recovery from the impacts of Covid-19 and the management of responses to future crises. They highlight a number of inter-related lessons, including:…”

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Managing Multiple Crises: Lessons from Covid-19

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2022

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The World is facing numerous, overlapping crises with the war in Ukraine exacerbating a global cost-of-living crisis, coupled with the lingering effects of Covid-19 and ongoing climate change impacts. After nearly three years of dealing with Covid-19, the world economy has been left in a fragile state and the ability of countries and people to deal with multiple, compounding issues has therefore also been eroding (UN, 2022, p. 2). Those that are most marginalised and least able to cope will likely be hit the hardest by these crises. This rapid review does not provide an in-depth discussion of these issues or the proposed solutions needed, but looks to learnings from managing the Covid-19 pandemic, especially where the pandemic overlapped with other crises, as well as the wider disaster risk and crisis management literature to gather insights into how these turbulent times and future crises can be navigated.

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Managing Multiple Crises: Lessons from Covid-19

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2022

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“…This must include indigenous and local communities, who are often most directly exposed to multiple risks associated with ocean change, and who also have valuable long-term knowledge and perspectives that can inform the development of options (Allison and Bassett, 2015;Singh et al, 2021). Development of options for action will also require enhanced routes for collaboration and communication between decision-makers and science advisory bodies and the development of new approaches to the leadership of societal responses to change and rapidly occurring events or hazards based on an understanding of risk (Few et al, 2020).…”

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The Global Pandemic Has Shown We Need an Action Plan for the Ocean

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“…Furthermore, the systems approach has a wider application. Disaster management is becoming an increasingly common challenge in large urban cities in the global South due to climate change, and we build on Chan (2020), Few et al (2020), Goel et al (2021), andMcGowran et al (2023) to suggest that Mumbai's response to COVID-19 in wave two holds lessons for large cities dealing with issues such as flooding and air pollution.…”

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“…Disaster management is becoming an increasingly common challenge in large urban cities in the global South due to climate change, and we build on Chan (2020), Few et al. (2020), Goel et al. (2021), and McGowran et al.…”

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The resilience of systems‐thinking approaches when faced with an evolving crisis: The case of Mumbai

Sonne Vyas,

Duvendack

2024

Development Policy Review

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MotivationIndia has seen severe economic and social impacts from COVID‐19, with the most vulnerable people having suffered most. Mumbai's response has been multi‐faceted drawing on numerous actors such as local and state government but also businesses and citizens. Disaster management is increasingly common and Mumbai's policy response during COVID‐19 wave two provide relevant lessons.PurposeWe explain Mumbai's policy response to wave two of COVID‐19, termed the Mumbai Model, applying) systems thinking approach.Methods and approachWe adopt a systems thinking approach, applying a framework developed in Duvendack and Sonne (2021) to analyse case study based on secondary data and information on the policy response to COVID‐19 in Mumbai.FindingsThe Mumbai Model emerged as a pragmatic policy response. Key actors changed between waves one and two, from a broad set of actors to a narrower set focussed on the unfolding healthcare crisis. This resulted in a reconfiguration of networks and partnerships. Decentralised decision‐making further changed the structure of the networks to a hub and spoke model. Communication and feedback loops shifted from primarily top‐down to two‐way information flows to support decision‐making and resource‐allocation driven by data. This was enabled by clear leadership and political buy‐in.Policy implicationsTo tackle a crisis of this magnitude diverse actors collaborating effectively through networks that enable knowledge and information flows is crucial. Governments can use the systems approach for crisis management in large cities which require swift action and efficient flow of information to assess a situation and to prioritise response efforts. Further research is required to better understand how governments can build capacity and policy structures to enable systemic approaches to crisis management in varied contexts.

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COVID-19: Lessons for Recovery. What can we learn from existing research on the long-term aspects of disaster risk and recovery?

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Managing Multiple Crises: Lessons from Covid-19

Managing Multiple Crises: Lessons from Covid-19

The Global Pandemic Has Shown We Need an Action Plan for the Ocean

The resilience of systems‐thinking approaches when faced with an evolving crisis: The case of Mumbai

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