The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction and Persons with Disabilities

Stough, Laura M.; Kang, Donghyun

doi:10.1007/s13753-015-0051-8

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“…Blaikie et al, 2014;Norris et al, 2002;Peek & Stough, 2010). The international Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction policy recognizes children across the world as disproportionately vulnerable in disaster (Stough & Kang, 2015). Such vulnerability is, in part, related to the unique physical, psychological, and cognitive characteristics of children during the developmental period.…”

Section: Children's Vulnerabilities To Disastermentioning

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Seven school-related disasters: Lessons for policymakers and school personnel

Stough

Kang

Lee

2018

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Students are highly dependent on the emergency planning and evacuation decisions made by policymakers and school personnel when disasters occur. The purpose of this study was to examine selected cases of school-related disasters, highlighting how factors of the school context intersected with natural hazards and subsequently affected schoolchildren. Purposeful maximal sampling was used to select school-related disaster cases for their geographical diversity, different instructional contexts, and types of initiating hazards. Among these, seven cases with broad considerations pertaining to educational policy and safe school environments were selected. A within-case analysis was conducted of each case, followed by a cross-case thematic analysis. Six overarching factors were found in the thematic synthesis of the findings. First, school safety practices apply anytime children are under the supervision of school personnel, making knowledge of emergency procedures across multiple types of school settings essential. Second, elements that place schoolchildren at risk also place school personnel at risk. Third, teachers and school administrators need to be well-trained and knowledgeable enough to make independent decisions in emergency situations. Fourth, children must know emergency procedures so they may take independent action, given teachers are also at-risk during disasters. Fifth, most school disasters can be prevented through safe school construction. Finally, it is the responsibility of policymakers to ensure schools are safe learning environments for children. By participating in and advocating for a culture of preparedness, educational policymakers can better protect schoolchildren, as well as school personnel, in disaster situations.

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Section: Children's Vulnerabilities To Disastermentioning

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Seven school-related disasters: Lessons for policymakers and school personnel

Stough

Kang

Lee

2018

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“…On the other hand, one should seek to make traditional emergency management actors more aware of social services' involvement and contribution in disasters, as well as of the needs of vulnerable populations in case of disasters. For instance, through multiple efforts in the policy development process and advocacy, the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction incorporates explicitly both health issues and concerns of people with disabilities (Aitsi-Selmi and Murray, 2016; Stough and Kang, 2015). One may also apply this approach to social services, which already work in close cooperation with the health care practitioners as well as people with disabilities.…”

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Local social services in disaster management: Is there a Nordic model?

Rapeli

Cuadra

Dahlberg

et al. 2018

International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction

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The Nordic states have extensive welfare systems in which the local social services are an important component. Despite a growing research on societal disaster resilience, we lack research examining in systematic way whether and how local social services in the Nordic countries contribute to such resilience. Aiming to fill this gap, this article asks whether we can identify a common Nordic model of the role of local social services in disasters, or whether the countries have taken different paths.We use policy documents and legislation to examine the extent to which roles for local social services are embedded in the disaster management systems of the five Nordic countries. We analyze the institutional organization in each country, as well as the models of social services related to disasters from a comparative perspective. We find that the Nordic countries have chosen quite different paths regarding local social services' role in disaster management. A general conclusion is that the governments of the five countries ought to strengthen the position of local social services within the disaster management system as a way to enhance disaster resilience in the Nordic countries as a whole.

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“…Preexisting disability conditions can also exacerbate the impact of climate-related events (IPCC 2012). The SFDRR has established people with disabilities and their advocacy organizations as legitimate stakeholders and actors in the design and implementation of international disaster risk reduction policies (Stough and Kang 2015;UNISDR 2015). But continued efforts are still necessary for the empowerment of people with disabilities in CCA and DRR integration.…”

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A Conceptual Governance Framework for Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction Integration

Forino

Meding

Brewer

2015

Int J Disaster Risk Sci

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Climate change adaptation (CCA) and disaster risk reduction (DRR) have similar targets and goals in relation to climate change and related risks. The integration of CCA in core DRR operations is crucial to provide simultaneous benefits for social systems coping with challenges posed by climate extremes and climate change. Although state actors are generally responsible for governing a public issue such as CCA and DRR integration, the reform of top-down governing modes in neoliberal societies has enlarged the range of potential actors to include non state actors from economic and social communities. These new intervening actors require in-depth investigation. To achieve this goal, the article investigates the set of actors and their bridging arrangements that create and shape governance in CCA and DRR integration. The article conducts a comprehensive literature review in order to retrieve main actors and arrangements. The article summarizes actors and arrangements into a conceptual governance framework that can be used as a backdrop for future research on the topic. However, this framework has an explorative form, which must be refined according to site-and context-specific variables, norms, or networks. Accordingly, this article promotes an initial application of the framework to different contexts. Scholars may adopt the framework as a roadmap with which to corroborate the existence of a theoretical and empirical body of knowledge on governance of CCA and DRR integration.

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The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction and Persons with Disabilities

Cited by 115 publications

References 18 publications

Seven school-related disasters: Lessons for policymakers and school personnel

Seven school-related disasters: Lessons for policymakers and school personnel

Local social services in disaster management: Is there a Nordic model?

A Conceptual Governance Framework for Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction Integration

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