Time for change? Applying an inductive timeline tool for a retrospective study of disaster recovery in Montserrat, West Indies

Sword-Daniels, Victoria; Twigg, John; Loughlin, S. C.

doi:10.1016/j.ijdrr.2014.12.006

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“…Similar methods have also helped researchers identify turning points, epiphanies, and critical moments in participants' lives, leading to greater understandings of complex topics such as social resilience and risk avoidance (Gray and Dagg 2019;Harris and Rhodes 2018). In group settings timeline-based methods helped generate detailed and accurate data associated with long-term disaster recovery, addressing shortfalls associated with longitudinal postdisaster research, such as lapses in memory and the simplification of events (Sword-Daniels et al 2015). Ultimately, these timeline methods are supposed to ease recall, facilitate data validation, reduce tension when discussing sensitive topics, and enhance interview transparency, rapport, and data cogeneration (Marshall 2019).…”

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Climate Autobiography Timeline: Adapting Timeline Research Methods to the Study of Climate Perceptions

Vilá

Finnis

Koitnurm

et al. 2022

Weather, Climate, and Society

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Climate perception is a growing area of study in the social sciences, and one which has implications on the tools and strategies we use to communicate climate change risk information. However, the range of climate perception studies remains limited, focused primarily on perceptions of day-to-day weather, sudden-onset severe events, or long-term permanent change. Phenomena situated between these extremes (e.g., annual- to decadal-scale variability) is largely missing from social science of climate research. Whether this is due to limited perception by research participants, limited research attention, or is a reflection of the methods commonly applied to human dimensions of climate research, this gap precludes analysis of the full range of complex climate experiences and their influence on climate perception and understanding. In this paper, we offer a proof of concept for the Climate Autobiography Timeline (CAT), a visual timeline tool developed to assess climate perception while prompting an ordered consideration of time, with the goal of eliciting insights into complex and long-term climate experiences such as low-frequency climate variability. Results are based off a preliminary application of the CAT across focus groups conducted in Newfoundland and Labrador, a province subject to low-frequency climate variability and frequent high-impact weather. Results reveal three key findings 1) weather and climate narratives are commonly anchored to two time periods, potentially obscuring perceptions of variability; 2) narratives focus on socially important weather and climate phenomena; and 3) the social and visual co-construction of weather and climate narratives may yield more holistic representations of local climate knowledge.

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Section: B Timeline Methods To Generate Climate Narrativesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Climate Autobiography Timeline: Adapting Timeline Research Methods to the Study of Climate Perceptions

Vilá

Finnis

Koitnurm

et al. 2022

Weather, Climate, and Society

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“…Most of the previous research in disaster recovery covered a limited period of time or a single point in time [15,25]. A long-term disaster recovery evaluation is required to understand the post-disaster recovery process [25,26], as it is difficult to identify post-event changes immediately [27]. Long-term recovery addresses rebuilding or relocating damaged or destroyed social, economic, natural, and built environments, along with other factors [28].…”

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Comprehensive Assessment for Post-Disaster Recovery Process in a Tourist Town

Yang

Jahan

2018

Sustainability

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This paper develops a comprehensive assessment of post-disaster housing and tourism resource recovery. It enables us to address how many natural and man-made features in a tourist town have recovered after a hurricane event. The assessment uses a variety of sources, at different spatial scales and at different points in time. Furthermore, this study develops a measurement scale to quantify damage and recovery appropriate for the available resources. In particular, the study focuses on the development of a methodological approach to tracking housing and tourism resource recovery and helping local communities recover faster the damaged areas after disaster. The effort uses multiple sources of data, including questionnaire data, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) damage data, airborne light detection and ranging (LiDAR) data, and remote sensing satellite images. The data are quantitatively analyzed to fulfill the objectives of assessing housing recovery rate over time and are represented on maps. The maps are used to represent the status of damaged buildings (e.g., no damage, minor or major damage, affected or destroyed). Furthermore, repaired buildings in specified time intervals are represented on the maps. Eventually, this study develops two schematic diagrams illustrating the average damage and the weighed recovery from multiple data sources. The outcomes of this study will help decision makers emphasize on the locations identified as experiencing differential progress in the reconstruction, rebuilding, and repairing of houses or tourism resources.

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“…Legal change will not come about if it does not receive political issue attention [12] required to place it on the political agenda in a dialectic between external pressure–through media and social mobilization- and an internal response to attract resources [13] to shape legal change. Likewise, it depends on the resilience of society, the community and of the individual, such that recovery is highly variable and may last decades [14, 15]. Chang [11] illustrates the broad range of recovery times in Kobe following the 1995 earthquake.…”

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Timescape of disaster risk governance in contemporary Japan: Neither state of normalcy nor constancy in regulation

Paleo

2019

PLoS ONE

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Although the relationship between public policies and disaster risk is apparent, its nature is not so evident. The dominant model, the disaster management cycle, is based on the principle of response and return to normalcy. In addition, it is accepted that policies are based on constant legal development and that risk governance is responsive to successive disasters. The temporal pattern of large nature-triggered and technological disaster events in Japan since the end of WWII has been researched by measuring the duration of events and discontinuities between them as well as the development of the regulation of disaster risk. The evolutionary relationship between these two parameters and other political and economic factors was reconstructed through the notion of disaster timescape. Results do not support the notion of disaster cycle, nor a return to normalcy at the national scale, but a timescape of overlapping and successive events. Furthermore, there is no evidence of a clear association between major events and legal development on disaster risk, neither between this and economic or political crises. Nor is there continual evolution of regulation of disaster risk but, rather, a sequence of long periods of quiescence and acceleration more indicative of policy punctuation. The disaster timescape points to greater complexity with the interaction of multiple driving forces and an unstable balance that goes beyond a simple linear cause and effect. In the disaster timescape, there appear to be overlapping trajectories of environmental, social, political and economic processes.

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Time for change? Applying an inductive timeline tool for a retrospective study of disaster recovery in Montserrat, West Indies

Cited by 11 publications

References 23 publications

Climate Autobiography Timeline: Adapting Timeline Research Methods to the Study of Climate Perceptions

Climate Autobiography Timeline: Adapting Timeline Research Methods to the Study of Climate Perceptions

Comprehensive Assessment for Post-Disaster Recovery Process in a Tourist Town

Timescape of disaster risk governance in contemporary Japan: Neither state of normalcy nor constancy in regulation

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