Natural hazard mitigation strategies review: Actor–network theory and the eco-based approach understanding in Zimbabwe

Katanha, Anyway; Simatele, Mulala Danny

doi:10.4102/jamba.v11i1.629

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“…A study illustrates the application of actor-network theory in understanding natural hazard mitigation strategies, highlighting the equal treatment of human and non-human actors within social functions [16]. This application showcases how the theory can be utilized to analyze complex socio-environmental issues and the interactions between various actors involved in mitigation efforts.…”

Section: Opportunitymentioning

confidence: 99%

The Disabled Community Empowerment Model with Social Entrepreneurship Approach to Tenoon Business

Jasiyah,

Suriadi

2024

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The idea of community-oriented resource management (local resource management) is a development management figure that tries to answer development challenges like poverty, environmental degradation, and the lack of community participation in the development process that concerns them. This research aims to build an inclusive community empowerment model through a social entrepreneurship approach in the creative economy sector. This study uses a qualitative descriptive method which includes data collection through observation, interviews, and documentation using key and additional information. Data analysis techniques used are data collection, data reduction, data presentation and conclusion.The results of the study show that the model of empowering people with disabilities with a social entrepreneurship approach in tenoon businesses is based on the strengths and capabilities of people with disabilities so that through empowerment with a social entrepreneurship approach in the creative economy sector it can produce self-recognition, self-confidence and self-reliance that can support person, power and profit on strengthening the next empowerment.

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Section: Opportunitymentioning

confidence: 99%

The Disabled Community Empowerment Model with Social Entrepreneurship Approach to Tenoon Business

Jasiyah,

Suriadi

2024

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“…I am not the first to make this point in the context of disaster research. Also consider the important contribution by Katanha and Simatele (2019), who draw on a Zimbabwean case study to illustrate the point.…”

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The Nature–Culture Distinction in Disaster Studies: The Recent Petition for Reform as an Opportunity for New Thinking?

Riet

2021

Int J Disaster Risk Sci

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This article constructively challenges the often cited distinction between the so-called hazard and vulnerability perspectives in disaster studies. In a context of increasingly intertwined, dense, and complex socioecological dynamics, disaster scholars often hold onto an apparently untenable distinction between nature and culture, manifested as either a hazard or a vulnerability approach. This article maintains that the typically undesired approach (the hazard approach) is inherent to the preferred (vulnerability) perspective. The article builds on Oliver-Smith’s (2013) critique of the magnitude of requirements placed upon practitioners given the full implications of the vulnerability perspective. Although critical of the vulnerability perspective, this article does not fundamentally disagree with the validity of its claims. Instead, by drawing on the pragmatist philosophy of Rorty (1989) and by demonstrating the potential value of posthumanism for disaster studies, I wish to argue for greater pragmatism within disaster scholarship. The article considers the recent petition or manifesto for disaster studies (Gaillard et al. 2019) for more inclusive disaster research as a potential opportunity to challenge the aforementioned nature–culture distinction in the field, as the petition signed by a number of disaster scholars outlines various concerns over the asymmetrical power relations between local and external researchers. These power relations have adverse consequences for the appropriateness of knowledge production in many contexts. I am primarily concerned with the very local level of disaster occurrence, where posthumanism might be most valuable.

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“…Moreover, being one of the most vulnerable watersheds in Taiwan, the LRW exemplifies cautious and prudent development through careful land planning and regulation [34]. The strong, wide, and diversified properties of the ecosystem services are affirmed by different characteristics of these ecosystem services stemming from hillside forests in the fragile LRW [50][51][52][53][54][55][56]. In contrast, the devastating flash flooding caused by intensive rainfall in Libya in 2023 claimed thousands of lives and caused extensive property damage [56].…”

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Navigating Land Conservation, Utilization, and Market Solutions: Insights from the Lanyang River Watershed, Taiwan

Chen,

Jan,

Chung

et al. 2024

Sustainability

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In the current fraught relationship between nature and human society, land conservation and utilization have spawned intensive conflicts that require mediation. The present study explores this issue of coordination between nature and society in a fragile watershed located in northeastern Taiwan: the Lanyang River Watershed. Land zoning in this area has been historically classified and legally implemented, and additional development is constrained by an application review process. Currently, additional land utilization is still in demand in sensitive areas of this watershed, such as for mining and tilling. Due to the geographically, geologically, and climatically fragile characteristics of the watershed, the hillside residents have benefited from the conservation of nature with comprehensive ecosystem services but are at the forefront of the loss of life and property caused by forest ecosystem degradation. They are one of the key local resource users and main stakeholders. Applying the contingent valuation method to survey the hillside residents, the present study assessed the economic value they receive from the comprehensive ecosystem services offered by the natural forest ecosystems. Their opinions are explored using a survey on their awareness of ecosystem damage, their opinions on damage compensation, and on the feasible compensation channels for damage. As the study results ascertained the high value of the comprehensive ecosystem services continuously delivered by the conserved forest ecosystem, the study affirmed that conservation in the area classified and zoned as sensitive is an economic beneficial policy. With a high regard for ecosystem services and awareness of the impact of degradation and of the general agreement for the feasibility of channels of damage compensation, the continuity of conservation for these comprehensive ecosystem services is the preferred strategy for the local hillside residents. To emphasize this further, the opinions of the local community at the intersection of nature and society, where there is a delineated land zoning framework, strongly favor conservation over intensive resource exploitation and agricultural expansion, making further development an unfavorable strategy.

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Natural hazard mitigation strategies review: Actor–network theory and the eco-based approach understanding in Zimbabwe

Cited by 5 publications

References 37 publications

The Disabled Community Empowerment Model with Social Entrepreneurship Approach to Tenoon Business

The Disabled Community Empowerment Model with Social Entrepreneurship Approach to Tenoon Business

The Nature–Culture Distinction in Disaster Studies: The Recent Petition for Reform as an Opportunity for New Thinking?

Navigating Land Conservation, Utilization, and Market Solutions: Insights from the Lanyang River Watershed, Taiwan

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