Overemphasis on recovery inhibits community transformation and creates resilience traps

Rachunok, Benjamin; Nateghi, Roshanak

doi:10.1038/s41467-021-27359-5

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“…According to the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, climate- and weather-related calamities have surged five-fold over the past 50 years [ 3 ]. Because of the fast pace of urbanization and infrastructure aging, the climate vulnerability of communities, cities and metropolitan regions has significantly amplified [ 4 ]. Floods have been one of the most devastating natural hazards, causing the highest insured losses in cities around the world [ 5 ].…”

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Resilience patterns of human mobility in response to extreme urban floods

Tang

Zhao

Zi-tong

et al. 2023

National Science Review

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Large-scale disasters can disproportionally impact different population groups, causing prominent disparity and inequality, especially for those vulnerable and marginalized ones. Here, we investigate the resilience of human mobility under the disturbance of the unprecedented “720” Zhengzhou flood in China in 2021 using 1.32 billion mobile phone signaling records generated by 4.35 million people. We find that although pluvial floods can trigger mobility reductions, the overall structural dynamics of mobility networks remain relatively stable. We also find that the low levels of mobility resilience in female, adolescent, and older adult groups are mainly due to their insufficient capabilities to maintain business-as-usual travel frequency during the flood. Most importantly, we reveal three types of counter-intuitive, yet widely existing, resilience patterns of human mobility (namely, “reverse bathtub”, “ever-increasing”, and “ever-decreasing” patterns), and demonstrate a universal mechanism of disaster-avoidance response by further corroborating that those abnormal resilience patterns are not associated with people’s gender or age. In view of the common association between travel behaviors and travelers’ socio-demographic characteristics, our findings provide a caveat for scholars when disclosing disparities in human travel behaviors during flood-induced emergencies.

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Resilience patterns of human mobility in response to extreme urban floods

Tang

Zhao

Zi-tong

et al. 2023

National Science Review

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“…There is a growing awareness that successful post-hazard recovery requires resilience at both community and individual levels [ 10 , 11 ]. Consequently, there is a clear need to identify factors that develop and foster resilience in disaster recovery and to understand how resilience to natural hazards relates to mental health and wellbeing, especially in the context of vulnerability [ 12 ].…”

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Mental Health and Community Resilience among Vulnerable Populations Affected by Natural Hazards: Protocol for Scoping Reviews

Makleff

Varshney

Krishna

et al. 2022

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Introduction: Exposure to natural hazards such as fire, drought, floods, and earthquakes can have negative impacts on physical and mental health and wellbeing. The social and structural factors contributing to individual and community vulnerability also influence responses to disaster and the resulting consequences on health and wellbeing. Experiencing disasters like bushfires amplifies the impacts of inequality, magnifying existing disparities and contributing to additional psychological burdens of grief, trauma and adaptive challenge. There is a need to understand how vulnerability can influence responses to disaster, and to identify factors that develop and foster resilience in the context of increasing disasters and vulnerability. Materials and Methods: This protocol will describe the methodology of two scoping reviews: the first will describe the mental health outcomes of vulnerable populations after droughts and bushfires; the second will identify and describe strategies that promote community resilience in vulnerable populations in the context of a disaster. A thorough search will be conducted in relevant databases. Studies will be limited to English language. The reviews will be reported using the 22-item checklist for the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses. Methodological quality of the included papers will be assessed using the Joanna Briggs Institute’s critical appraisal tools. Results & Conclusions: The two scoping reviews described in this protocol will have broad relevance in the context of increasing and intensifying disasters, and will especially consider the compounded impact of disaster on vulnerable communities. Findings will contribute directly to the design and implementation of solutions to improve post-disaster health and wellbeing and community resilience.

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“…(Rachunok and Nateghi, 2021;Do, McBrien, Flores, 2023).Proper clustering incorporating social vulnerability in this study shall facilitate accurate disaster reduction planning. At the planning level, it would be possible to understand which areas have lower transportation vulnerability and to strengthen road connectivity (León, Ordaz, and Haddad, 2022; Yarveysi, Alipour, and Moftakhari, 2023).…”

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Identification and Characterization of Highly Potential Post-Disaster Isolated Areas through Sorting Social Vulnerability

Sheu,

Chen,

Chang

et al. 2024

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Identifying and characterizing post-disaster isolated areas are critical to the success of large-scale disaster management. A post-disaster isolated area (PDIA) refers to an area that can hardly be reached because of the destruction of traffic networks amid a disaster. Lacking relief and medical resources also inflicts psychological impacts on vulnerable dwellers in a PDIA. We believe humanitarian relief can be planned prior to disaster devastation. If a connected area has installed a relief facility, such as a hospital, the road damage may not severely affect the residents in PDIAs. This study enables the exploration of PDIAs characterized by the possibility of disaster occurrence and social vulnerability; and moreover, identifying the size of connected areas, also called responsible areas, to facilitate emergency relief supply and distribution in PDIAs amid a disaster. This research represents a joint venture with a national-level government agent, targeting a highly vulnerable territory that permits, efficiently and effectively, identifying and characterizing PDIAs from the perspective of social vulnerability. We adopt multi-data sources that incorporate socioeconomic, geographic, and disaster impact data gained and inputted from a national earthquake impact information platform. By conceptualizing and incorporating a syncretic disaster-risk index into the clustering metric, managerial endeavor becomes possible. We find that the chosen sizes of responsible areas of PDIAs are decisive, and by managing to maintain at least one relief facility in each PDIA, the impact on the dwellers can be mitigated.

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Overemphasis on recovery inhibits community transformation and creates resilience traps

Cited by 10 publications

References 81 publications

Resilience patterns of human mobility in response to extreme urban floods

Resilience patterns of human mobility in response to extreme urban floods

Mental Health and Community Resilience among Vulnerable Populations Affected by Natural Hazards: Protocol for Scoping Reviews

Identification and Characterization of Highly Potential Post-Disaster Isolated Areas through Sorting Social Vulnerability

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