Evaluating Resilience in Two Remote Australian Communities

Morley, Philip; Russell‐Smith, Jeremy; Sangha, Kamaljit K.; Sutton, Stephen; Sithole, Bevlyne

doi:10.1016/j.proeng.2018.01.162

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“…These injustices, in turn, eroded the socio-cultural-environmental adaptive capacities that Indigenous peoples used as risk management and response mechanisms, including Indigenous worldviews, ecological knowledge, intimate reciprocal relationships with nature, bonds within and between clans, and spiritual and cultural practices [1,8]. These practices are increasingly being recognized as important for DRR [1,2,7,8,13]. Consequently, they must be included in the development, implementation, and evaluation of DRR policies and practices.…”

Section: Disaster Risks Of the North Australian Remote Indigenous Commentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In practice, the reductionist research approaches introduced above have led to the formulation of impoverished development policies that do not integrate community development with risk reduction to sustainably address the underlying reasons for the disaster risks, health, and quality of Indigenous peoples' lives [12]. For example, in Northern Australia, emergency management still relies on the traditional disaster management cycle, with four isolated stages of mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery [2,6]. Such approaches focus on technological warnings, expensive evacuations, and rebuilding infrastructure [6,23], rather than developing more cost-effective, culturally appropriate community-level approaches to manage risks and facilitate response capability.…”

Section: Current Indigenous Drr Research and Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Indigenous peoples have, over several millennia, developed sophisticated ecological knowledge and practices to predict, prepare for, cope with, and survive natural events using their close intimate relationships with the country in which they live [1,2]. However, Australia's colonizers disregarded the Indigenous disaster risk reduction (DRR) perspectives, knowledge, and capacities that had developed, dismissing them as either primitive or irrelevant.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Facilitating Sustainable Disaster Risk Reduction in Indigenous Communities: Reviving Indigenous Worldviews, Knowledge and Practices through Two-Way Partnering

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The Sendai Framework of Action 2015–2030 calls for holistic Indigenous disaster risk reduction (DRR) research. Responding to this call, we synergized a holistic philosophical framework (comprising ecological systems theory, symbolic interactionism, and intersectionality) and social constructionist grounded theory and ethnography within a critical Indigenous research paradigm as a methodology for exploring how diverse individual and contextual factors influence DRR in a remote Indigenous community called Galiwinku, in the Northern Territory of Australia. Working together, Indigenous and non-Indigenous researchers collected stories in local languages using conversations and yarning circles with 20 community members, as well as participant observations. The stories were interpreted and analysed using social constructivist grounded theory analysis techniques. The findings were dialogued with over 50 community members. The findings deeply resonated with the community members, validating the trustworthiness and relevance of the findings. The grounded theory that emerged identified two themes. First, local Indigenous knowledge and practices strengthen Indigenous people and reduce the risks posed by natural hazards. More specifically, deep reciprocal relationships with country and ecological knowledge, strong kinship relations, Elder’s wisdom and authority, women and men sharing power, and faith in a supreme power/God and Indigenous-led community organizations enable DRR. Second, colonizing practices weaken Indigenous people and increase the risks from natural hazards. Therefore, colonization, the imposition of Western culture, the government application of top-down approaches, infiltration in Indigenous governance systems, the use of fly-in/fly-out workers, scarcity of employment, restrictions on technical and higher education opportunities, and overcrowded housing that is culturally and climatically unsuitable undermine the DRR capability. Based on the findings, we propose a Community-Based DRR theory which proposes that facilitating sustainable Indigenous DRR in Australian Indigenous communities requires Indigenous and non-Indigenous partners to genuinely work together in two-directional and complementary ways.

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Section: Disaster Risks Of the North Australian Remote Indigenous Commentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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“…Ini diperkuat dengan adanya globalisasi, perubahan iklim, hilangnya keanekaragaman hayati, dan bencana yang disebabkan oleh aktivitas manusia serta proses alam [8]. Komunitas di daerah rawan bencana menjadi bagian yang selalu rentan terhadap peristiwa yang ekstrim dan umumnya tidak dapat dicegah tetapi hanya dapat diminimalkan risiko yang terjadi [9]. Komunitas yang memiliki daya tahan yang kuat akan lebih mampu mempertahankan struktur dan fungsi sosial dasarnya [10].…”

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Modal sosial dalam ketahanan komunitas terhadap bencana banjir di Kelurahan Kemijen dan Krobokan, Kota Semarang

Norzistya

Handayani

2020

Jur. Reg. Jur. Pemb. Wil. dan Perenc. Part.

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<p class="Abstract">Berdasarkan letak geografisnya, Kota Semarang sering dilanda bencana banjir dan rob. Manajemen bencana telah dilakukan di wilayah ini tetapi masih bersifat teknis. Aspek sosial jarang diperhatikan dalam tahapan manajemen bencana. Hal ini tentunya berdampak pada ketahanan komunitasnya dalam merespon dan menyerap dampak terhadap bencana banjir. Membangun ketahanan komunitas bergantung pada hubungan sosial, jaringan, dan keterhubungan di antara komunitas. Beberapa faktor tersebut terdapat pada modal sosial sebagai sumberdaya potensial yang dapat menstimulasi berbagai fungsi yang terikat dalam struktur sosial. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengkaji ketahanan komunitas terhadap manajemen bencana banjir di Kelurahan Kemijen dan Krobokan yang dilihat dari sejauh mana nilai-nilai modal sosial yang tertanam pada Kelurahan Siaga Bencana (KSB). Ini didukung dengan menggunakan pendekatan campuran antara kuantitatif yang menggunakan metode survei serta kualitatif menggunakan metode <em>case study</em>. Pendekatan campuran ini didukung dengan metode analisis skoring, normalisasi, dan deskripsi. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa terdapat perbedaan nilai modal sosial pada KSB Kemijen dan Krobokan dalam manajemen bencana banjir. Perbedaan terlihat pada nilai bonding dan bridging di KSB Kemijen lebih kuat dibandingkan dengan KSB Krobokan. Salah satunya dipengaruhi oleh keaktifan anggota komunitas dalam mengikuti tahap kesiapsiagaan bencana banjir. Namun, kondisi tersebut tidak mengurangi modal sosial di KSB Krobokan dalam manajemen bencana banjir salah satunya dipengaruhi oleh peran ketua KSB yang selalu menginformasikan terkait kebencanaan. Selain itu, keberadaan institusi lokal sebagai media dalam meningkatkan modal sosial di kedua KSB. Modal sosial yang tertanam pada KSB berperan dalam ketahanan komunitas Kelurahan Kemijen dan Krobokan dalam manajemen bencana banjir.</p>

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“…For example, the definition of community resilience proposed by Norris et al covers four dimensions, including community ability, information and communication, social capitals and economic development, and dependence on resources and their dynamic attributes [4]. Morley et al defined community resilience as "the ability of human and community to cope with, adapt to, learn and change if necessary their behaviors and social structure to reduce influences of disasters," and the community disaster resilience scorecard (TCDRS) method has been used to recognize abilities of a community to resist disasters and extreme events [5]. Cutter et al constructed a disaster resilience on residence level (DROR) model and proposed an index system covering six dimensions of community ability, infrastructure, institution, economy, sociology, and ecology [6].…”

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Enhancing the Community Resilience with a Network Structuring Model

Zhong¹

2020

Flood Impact Mitigation and Resilience Enhancement

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Community resilience is a key index for describing the response of human habitat system against hazards. Enhancing the community resilience to flood disaster requires indicator identification and measurement system establishment, especially for flooding risk management. In this study, an advanced index framework for measuring community resilience to flood disaster is proposed integrating fuzzy Delphi method (FDM) and interpretative structural model (ISM). Based on the definition of community resilience, the indicators are classified into six dimensions, including environmental factors, social factors, economic factors, psychological factors, institutional factors, and information and communication factors. A simplified community resilience evaluation index system is established by using FDM, and the hierarchical network structure of the community resilience to flood disasters is confirmed, in which the direct influence indicators and the root influence indicators are analyzed. The proposed framework in this study contributes to the interdisciplinary understanding of community resilience to flooding disasters and building a more resilience community; it is also expected to be extended for risk reduction in other natural hazards.

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Evaluating Resilience in Two Remote Australian Communities

Cited by 10 publications

References 9 publications

Facilitating Sustainable Disaster Risk Reduction in Indigenous Communities: Reviving Indigenous Worldviews, Knowledge and Practices through Two-Way Partnering

Facilitating Sustainable Disaster Risk Reduction in Indigenous Communities: Reviving Indigenous Worldviews, Knowledge and Practices through Two-Way Partnering

Modal sosial dalam ketahanan komunitas terhadap bencana banjir di Kelurahan Kemijen dan Krobokan, Kota Semarang

Enhancing the Community Resilience with a Network Structuring Model

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