Vulnerability Theory

Zakour, Michael J.; Gillespie, David F.

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“…Areas in the tropics will be more vulnerable to the occurrence of tropical cyclones, for example, and areas of low elevation near the coast will be more vulnerable than higher areas to storm surges. However, just as important are social factors such as population densities and distribution, vulnerability, resilience and adaptive capacity and emergency preplanning and management, which determine how many people will be impacted, and to what extent13.…”

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Disaster declarations associated with bushfires, floods and storms in New South Wales, Australia between 2004 and 2014

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Dominey‐Howes

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Australia regularly experiences disasters triggered by natural hazards and New South Wales (NSW) the most populous State is no exception. To date, no publically available spatial and temporal analyses of disaster declarations triggered by hazards (specifically, bushfires, floods and storms) in NSW have been undertaken and no studies have explored the relationship between disaster occurrence and socio-economic disadvantage. We source, collate and analyse data about bushfire, flood and storm disaster declarations between 2004 and 2014. Floods resulted in the most frequent type of disaster declaration. The greatest number of disaster declarations occurred in 2012–2013. Whilst no significant Spearman’s correlation exists between bushfire, flood and storm disaster declarations and the strength of the El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) phase, we observe that bushfire disaster declarations were much more common during El Niño, and flood disaster declarations were five times more common during La Niña phases. We identify a spatial cluster or ‘hot spot’ of disaster declarations in the northeast of the State that is also spatially coincident with 43% of the most socio-economically disadvantaged Local Government Areas in NSW. The results have implications for disaster risk management in the State.

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Disaster declarations associated with bushfires, floods and storms in New South Wales, Australia between 2004 and 2014

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Dominey‐Howes

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“…Natural hazards are unavoidable; they disrupt the daily lives of people and communities, can result in substantial loss of life and cause social upheaval (Shokane 2017 ; Zakour & Gillespie 2017 ). In addition, Sarma et al ( 2020 ) concurred that disasters are unpredictable occurrences of a series of disruptions within a period, which cease the functioning of a society, with potential great loss of human lives and property, as well as impacting the environment.…”

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“…Consequently, this research study was conducted in the context of community disaster interventions by researchers working with vulnerable populations and from a social work perspective. Mostly, social work intervenes ‘on vulnerable populations as the profession’s core clients’ (Zakour & Gillespie 2017 :12). Moreover, social workers have a unique responsibility amongst the ‘helping professionals’ in that they have the additional responsibility of advocating for social justice and human rights on a macro level, particularly on behalf of more vulnerable populations.…”

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“…As natural hazards affect all populations with intense disruption of the social, economic and environmental conditions necessary for the well-being of people, social workers are therefore expected to intervene ‘in systems at all levels’ (Zakour & Gillespie 2017 :7). However, it was earlier argued by Marlow and Van Rooyen ( 2001 :242) that in social work literature ‘only a few authors have taken on the challenge of considering environmental issues and their relationship to social work’.…”

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An asset-based participatory community analysis of natural hazards in Naphuno, Greater Tzaneen Municipality, Limpopo province, South Africa

Shokane

Nel

2020

Jàmbá

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Natural hazards disrupt the daily lives of people and communities. Consequently, social workers, like any other stakeholders, deal with community predicaments arising from the effects of natural hazards. The social relief distress (SRD) programme of government utilises needs-based, top-down government-driven interventions in communities affected by natural hazards, focused on what communities lack, as opposed to what communities have. This research study involved a community that experienced natural hazards, such as flooding, hail, lightning and windstorms, which destroyed property and livelihoods during the period 2014–2015. Eight experts and 12 affected community members participated in a qualitative participatory action research analysis study between 2016 and 2017. Guided by the asset-based community development (ABCD) approach, the affected community participated in a collaborative manner in the analysis of the consequences of natural hazards within the community. Data were collected through semi-structured individual interviews and focus group discussions, and analysed thematically. The findings confirmed the traumatic effects of natural hazards, such as loss of property, crops and livestock, physical injuries and even death. The main finding established that natural hazards should be managed in a collaborative way between formal experts of natural hazards and community members through ABCD principles and methods in building resilient communities.

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“…I hope to have offered an instance of such an attempt to bypass the binary division altogether. In my own project, I strive to participate in moments of evanescence and vulnerability (Zakour and Gillespie, 2013), but I also want to join habits of thinking and doing whereby "becoming-with" other forms of life is no longer reduced to a ready-made academic discourse. The proposal of decolonizing research is somewhat closer to the experience of bodily exposure and co-creation with sentient ecologies (Smith, 2012).…”

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Nomadic Ecologies: Plants, embodied knowledge, and temporality in the Colombian Amazon

Roncancio

2017

Bol. Antropol.

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Abstract.A non-anthropocentric approach to human and other-than-human relations in the Colombian Amazon, this paper follows plant-human encounters in the context of the ritual use of coca 1 I would like to thank the Murui community of Puerto Leguízamo-Putumayo for a weeklong stay with them in their territory, and for many insightful conversations on plant life. Thanks to Professor Catherine Walsh, Director of the Cultural Studies Graduate Program at the Universidad Andina Simón Bolivar-Quito, for dialogues on decoloniality and decolonial research, as well as for taking the time to comment on previous drafts of this paper. Thanks to Professor Kristina Lyons at UC Santa Cruz for sharing her ethnographic research in Putumayo with me, and for her comments on the final draft of this article. Also to Professor Arturo Escobar at UNC-Chapel Hill. Many of the theoretical insights on embodiment and relationality here take inspiration from readings and conversations in his graduate seminars on critical political ecology and the anthropology of ontological design at UNC-Chapel Hill. Last but not least, special thanks to the anonymous reviewers of this article. Ecologías nómadas: las plantas, conocimiento incorporado y temporalidad en la Amazonia colombianaResumen. Una aproximación no antropocéntrica a las relaciones humanas y otras no humanas en la Amazonia colombiana, este artículo hace seguimiento a los encuentros planta-humano en el contexto del uso ritual de la coca (Quech kuka;. Lat. Erythroxylon coca) con un anciano Murui. En él se describe cómo las plantas y los seres humanos co-crean conocimiento basado en el lugar, ecologías, y territorios. El artículo también aborda algunos aspectos de la vida socio-ecológica amazónica más allá de las nociones teleológicas de tiempo, cambio e historia. Una conversación sobre las relaciones planta-humano, sugiere que las cuestiones de la corporalidad, ingestión y tacto, entre otras, podrían ser de interés para la teoría decolonial.Palabras clave: mambia, agencia de las plantas, temporalidades no humanas, decolonialidad, Amazonia colombiana. Ecologias nômades: as plantas, o conhecimento incorporado e a temporalidade na Amazônia ColombianaResumo. Uma aproximação não antropocêntrica às relações humanas e outras não humanas na Amazônia colombiana, este artigo faz um seguimento aso encontros planta-humano no contexto do uso ritual da coca (Quech kuka;. Lat. Erythroxylon coca) com um idoso Murui. Nele descreve-se como as plantas e os seres humanos criam em conjunto conhecimento baseado no lugar, ecologias e territórios. O artigo também se aproxima a assuntos da vida sócio ecológica amazônica além das noções teleológicas de tempo, mudança e historia. Uma conversa sobre as relações planta-humano sugere que as questões da corporeidade, ingestão e tato, entre outras, poderiam ser de interesses para a teoria não colonial.Palavras-chave: mambia, agencia das plantas, temporalidades não humanas, decolonialidade, Amazônia colombiana. Écologies nomades : plantes, connaissance intégrée et temporal...

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Vulnerability Theory

Cited by 10 publications

References 91 publications

Disaster declarations associated with bushfires, floods and storms in New South Wales, Australia between 2004 and 2014

Disaster declarations associated with bushfires, floods and storms in New South Wales, Australia between 2004 and 2014

An asset-based participatory community analysis of natural hazards in Naphuno, Greater Tzaneen Municipality, Limpopo province, South Africa

Nomadic Ecologies: Plants, embodied knowledge, and temporality in the Colombian Amazon

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