Organisations in Disaster

King, David

doi:10.1007/s11069-006-9016-y

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“…Norris et al (2008a) concluded that community resilience involves a set of adaptive capacities and is a strategy for promoting effective disaster readiness and response, views endorsed earlier by Berkes (2007) and O 'Brien et al (2006). The key idea is that community resilience then is promoted through adaptive capacity enacted by individuals (San Juan Guillen 2011; Walsh 2007) who form various organisations that become mobilised in response to a disaster (King 2007).…”

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Bronfenbrenner’s bioecological theory for modelling community resilience to natural disasters

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This paper advocates the use of Bronfenbrenner's bioecological theory as a framework to analyse resilience at diverse scales. Bronfenbrenner's bioecological theory can be employed to (a) benchmark social resilience, (b) target the priority interventions required and (c) measure progress arising from these interventions to enhance resilience to natural disasters. First, the paper explores resilience to natural disasters in the context of climatic change as building resilience is seen as a way to mitigate impacts of natural disasters. Second, concepts of resilience are systematically examined and documented, outlining resilience as a trait and resilience as a process. Third, issues arising in relation to the measurement of resilience are discussed. Fourth, Bronfenbrenner's bioecological systems theory is described and proffered to model and assess resilience at different scales. Fifth, studies are described which have supported the use of the bioecological systems theory for the study of resilience. Sixth, an example of the use of Bronfenbrenner's theory is offered and the paper concludes with suggestions for future research using Bronfenbrenner's theory.Keywords Resilience · Natural disaster · Bronfenbrenner's bioecological theory · Community · Climate change 1 IntroductionThe world's climate is experiencing marked changes (IPCC 2007). These changes are set to be accompanied by an increase in the number and severity of natural disasters such as floods and droughts and present a need to formulate policy to deal with these predictions (Bosomworth and Handmer 2008;Bosher et al. 2009; COAG 2009;McBean and Rodgers 2010). In Australia, and elsewhere, we need to be prepared for rapid onset events such as wildfires, cyclones and floods and slow onset hazards such as drought.Emergency Management considers resilience essential for safeguarding communities or building safer communities. Disaster resilience is seen as a quality, characteristic or result that is developed by processes that foster or promote it. The ability of an individual, group, community or nation to deal with unique destabilising situations, or disaster resilience, is also seen as the …'shield', 'shock absorber' or buffer that moderates the outcome to ensure benign or small-scale negative consequences. Indeed, the goal of disaster risk management is to guarantee minimal loss of life and livelihoods and to allow the affected community or system to return to 'normal' within the shortest possible time. (Manyena 2006: 438) Prosser and Peters (2010) remind us that to support a disaster-resilient community, studies must focus on prevention, preparedness, response and recovery. Current Emer-gency Management policy in Australia (COAG 2009) and internationally (Berkes 2007;Folke et al. 2003; Tompkins and Adger 2004) concurs, asserting that building resilience into communities is essential in order to cope with climate change and concomitant natural disasters. This paper advocates the use of 2 Bronfenbrenner's bioecological theory as a framework to analyse com...

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Section: Community Resilience To Disastersmentioning

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“…In operational terms, resilience involves those adaptive capacities that lead to a positive functioning after a disturbance (Norris et al 2008). In post-disaster contexts, social resilience has been observed in adaptive capacities such as participation (King 2007), social capital (Aldrich 2012), leadership (Shaw and Goda 2004), cooperative action (Bhandari 2014). The notion of improvement and positive outlook in which resilience is conceived (Aguirre 2006;Landau 2007) implies that transformative changes are possible.…”

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Women’s empowerment following disaster: a longitudinal study of social change

Moreno

Shaw

2018

Nat Hazards

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This paper examines changes in gender relations in a small coastal community as a result of the 2010 Chile earthquake and tsunami. Vulnerability and resilience are used as a conceptual framework to analyse these changes. Based on empirical evidence from a seven-year longitudinal study and quasi-ethnographic work, we explore changes in power relations at the different stages of the disaster and longer-term recovery as well as the conditions that fostered these changes. Our findings show distinct patterns of change. First, disasters can trigger long-lasting changes that challenge historical patriarchal relations. Second, while vulnerability increases following a disaster, resilience can potentially counteract women's vulnerability. We propose that resilience can be a pathway to produce long-term changes in gender relations and empower women in the context of disasters.

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“…In a review of the last seven years' copies of The Australian Planner there were only a couple of articles about natural hazards in any context, whereas a review of The Australian Journal of Emergency Management over the same period revealed over twenty articles about aspects of planning (King 2007). A recent edition of the Australian Planner (Vol.…”

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Reducing hazard vulnerability through local government engagement and action

King

2008

Nat Hazards

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The concept of a natural hazard is a human construct. It is the interaction with human communities and settlements that defines a natural phenomenon as a natural hazard. Thus the end point of hazard mitigation and hazard vulnerability assessment must involve an attempt to reduce, or mitigate, the impact of the natural hazard on human communities. The responsibility to mitigate hazard impact falls primarily upon governments and closely connected non-government and private institutional agencies. In particular, it is most often local government that takes the responsibility for safeguarding its own communities, infrastructure and people. Hazard vulnerability of specific local communities is best assessed by the local government or council, which then faces the responsibility to translate that assessment into community education and infrastructural safeguards for hazard mitigation. This paper illustrates the process of local government engagement in hazard mitigation in Australia, through the Natural Disaster Risk Management Studies, as a first step towards natural disaster reduction.

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Organisations in Disaster

Cited by 38 publications

References 4 publications

Bronfenbrenner’s bioecological theory for modelling community resilience to natural disasters

Bronfenbrenner’s bioecological theory for modelling community resilience to natural disasters

Women’s empowerment following disaster: a longitudinal study of social change

Reducing hazard vulnerability through local government engagement and action

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