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A ‘te ao Māori’ disaster risk reduction framework Disasters (IF 3.311) Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Matthew Rout, Shaun Awatere, John Reid, Emily Campbell, Annie Huang, Tui Warmenhoven
An ongoing change in legislation means decision‐makers in Aotearoa New Zealand need to incorporate ‘mātauranga’ (Māori knowledge/knowledge system) in central and local government legislation and strategy. This paper develops a ‘te ao Māori’ (Māori worldview) disaster risk reduction (DRR) framework for non‐Māori decision‐makers to guide them through this process. This ‘interface framework’ will function
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Interconnections between children's upbringing, camps, and post‐war villages: caregivers' lived experiences in northern Uganda Disasters (IF 3.311) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Leen De Nutte, Lucia De Haene, Ilse Derluyn
Since the end of the Second World War in 1945, the erection of camps within and across state borders has become the most common response to the influx of displaced persons. Based on empirical evidence from northern Uganda, this paper aims to provide answers to two main questions: (i) how does the camp influence and frame the upbringing of children?; and (ii) how do caregivers shape and adjust upbringing
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The dynamic space of aid relations in protracted internal displacement: the case of Sri Lanka's northern Muslims Disasters (IF 3.311) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Cathrine Brun, Mohideen Mohamed Alikhan, Danesh Jayatilaka, Eva Chalkiadaki, Marta Bivand Erdal
Aid relations in protracted displacement comprise a diversity of actors with different influence and involvement over time. Building on the case of Sri Lanka's northern Muslim's expulsion from the north of the country in 1990, this paper investigates the dynamic space of aid relations in their drawn‐out internal displacement. The study draws on 38 key informant interviews and 10 focus‐group discussions
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Insights from social‐ecological systems thinking for understanding and preventing famine Disasters (IF 3.311) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Matt Fortnam, Peter Hailey
The risk of famine is rising in many countries today. Bold changes to famine information and response systems are urgently needed to improve capacities to prevent famine. To this end, the paper identifies six insights from social‐ecological systems (SES) thinking for understanding and preventing famine. It argues that a state of famine emerges from human–environment interdependencies, complex causality
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A retrospective of deaths related to migration along the southeasternmost land borders of Europe: an update encompassing the years 2015–22 Disasters (IF 3.311) Pub Date : 2023-12-26 Sophia R. Mavroudas, Pavlos Pavlidis, Maria-Valeria Karakasi
This study presents an update of forensic accounting of the numbers and demographics of migrants found deceased in the Evros region of Greece in the years from 2015–22. Compared to data from 2000–14, this update reflects the mounting number of border-related deaths in the region, as well as the changing demographic trends associated with the migrants who perish crossing the Greek-Turkish border. Specifically
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Between ‘Flight’ and ‘Fight’: Does Civilian Resistance against Rebels Work? Disasters (IF 3.311) Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Urban Reichhold
Understanding the dynamics of nonviolent action in situations of armed conflict has been labelled the ‘new frontier’ in resistance studies. This article reviews the growing body of literature on civilian resistance against rebel groups. Drawn from a systematic review of academic articles, book chapters and policy documents, examples of civilian resistance are ordered into distinct categories of unarmed
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Reproductive Justice in the Colombian Armed Conflict Disasters (IF 3.311) Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Signe Svallfors
This study explores the impacts of armed conflict on women's sexual and reproductive health in Colombia, building on a reproductive justice perspective on original interviews with stakeholders in healthcare, women's rights, and peacebuilding. The analysis reveals a threefold impact of war on women's sexual and reproductive health, through violent politicization, collateral damage, and intersectional
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Conflict, COVID-19, and crisis response: shifting from ‘pivoting’ to preparedness Disasters (IF 3.311) Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Eleanor Gordon
This paper assesses the extent to which the COVID-19 (Coronavirus disease 2019) pandemic directed the attention and resources of the international community away from peacebuilding, and the potential impact of this on conflict-affected environments. It draws from a global survey, interviews, and conversations with peacebuilding practitioners, publicly available information on peacebuilding funding
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Motivations, activities, timing, and employee engagement: three approaches to business involvement in disasters Disasters (IF 3.311) Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Irit Alony, Debbie Haski-Leventhal, Akriti Mehra
The alarming rise in occurrences of disasters, along with the positive development of corporate social responsibility (CSR), has led to the growing need for and involvement of businesses in disaster relief. However, this involvement differs greatly across organisations, and the fragmented research that exists has not offered an understanding of these differences and how they affect disaster relief
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We returned home empty-handed: COVID-19, care, and contested citizenship of Naga migrant workers in northeast India Disasters (IF 3.311) Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Anne Décobert, Akumsungla Aier, Michael Breen, Sashipokim Jamir, Pangernungba Kechu, Dolly Kikon, Matthew Gmalifo Mabefam
COVID-19 highlighted interconnections between matters of identity and citizenship, vulnerability, and inclusion in/exclusion from systems of care in times of crisis. Migrant workers from Nagaland state, northeast India, were disproportionately impacted by the pandemic's socioeconomic consequences. The public health emergency brought into question who is ‘Indian’ and the citizenship rights attached
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Investigating the conditions of vulnerability experienced by migrant workers during the COVID-19 pandemic in Kerala, India Disasters (IF 3.311) Pub Date : 2023-10-09 Peter McGowran, Mishal A. Mathews, Hannah Johns, Mary C. Harasym, Emmanuel Raju, Sonja Ayeb-Karlsson
This paper analyses findings of the ‘PROWELLMIGRANTS’2 project, which qualitatively investigated COVID-19 impacts on migrants’ well-being and mental health in Kerala, India. It draws on a novel conceptual framework that combines assemblage-thinking with theories of social contracts in disasters. The paper first explores how past development processes and contemporary migration policies in Kerala, and
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‘I know you like the back of my hand’: biometric practices of humanitarian organisations in international aid Disasters (IF 3.311) Pub Date : 2023-09-27 Çağlar Açιkyιldιz
Humanitarian organisations are increasingly utilising biometric data. However, we know little about the extent and scope of this practice, as its benefits and risks have attracted all the attention so far. This paper explores the biometric practices of the United Nations Refugee Agency, the United Nations World Food Programme, the International Committee of the Red Cross, Médecins Sans Frontières,
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The sound of silence? Listening to localisation at the World Humanitarian Summit Disasters (IF 3.311) Pub Date : 2023-09-18 Max Kelly, Maree Pardy, Mary Ana McGlasson
Based on research with key stakeholders, this paper draws on theories of organisational and political listening to analyse the critical emergence of ‘localisation’ during the 2016 World Humanitarian Summit. The central focus is the two-year pre-summit consultation process, engaging 23,000-plus people, mainly from the Global South, and organised specifically to bring different views and experiences
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Social resilience indicators for pandemic crises Disasters (IF 3.311) Pub Date : 2023-09-16 Ante Busic-Sontic, Renate Schubert
Coping and recovery capabilities in disasters depend to a large part on the social resilience of the societies or regions that are hit by the respective disruptions. Prior disaster studies suggest a variety of indicators to assess social resilience in the natural hazard context. This paper discusses whether the most common disaster-related social resilience indicators, including social cohesion and
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Humanitarian ignorance: towards a new paradigm of non-knowledge in digital humanitarianism Disasters (IF 3.311) Pub Date : 2023-08-17 Adam Moe Fejerskov, Maria-Louise Clausen, Sarah Seddig
This paper introduces the notion of ‘humanitarian ignorance’ to address growing concern regarding non-knowledge, as datafication becomes a central instrument and ambition of the humanitarian sector. With the turn to digital humanitarianism, contemporary humanitarian action increasingly relies on technology-driven quantification to expand the ability to collect, analyse, and present information. Utilising
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Change in cyclone disaster vulnerability and response in coastal Bangladesh Disasters (IF 3.311) Pub Date : 2023-08-13 Edris Alam, Andrew E. Collins, Abu Reza Md. Towfiqul Islam, Alak Paul, Md Kamrul Islam
The number of deaths owing to tropical cyclones in Bangladesh has significantly reduced. Category 4 Cyclone Gorky in 1991 and Sidr in 2007 caused 147,000 and 4,500 deaths respectively, whereas Category 1 Cyclone Mora in 2017 resulted in six. Face-to-face interviews with 362 residents, participant observation, and focus-group discussions answer a research question about how change in coastal areas has
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Challenges in humanitarian response implementation: a large-scale review of aid worker perspectives Disasters (IF 3.311) Pub Date : 2023-07-28 Vincenzo Bollettino, Rachel Isely, Godfred Nyarko, Chloe Rudnicki, Karima Rehmani, Hannah Stoddard, Patrick Vinck
Aid workers offer important perspectives for understanding better the most pervasive challenges that arise when implementing emergency response programming in humanitarian settings. This large sample study provides a global review of these perspectives, derived from 4,679 applications to the National NGO Program on Humanitarian Leadership, in which aid workers were asked to respond to the following
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Motivated to vote? The effect of flooding on political participation Disasters (IF 3.311) Pub Date : 2023-07-25 Jakub Jusko, Peter Spáč
This paper investigates changes in political participation following a disaster. Drawing on the electoral results and flood declarations after the 2010 flood in Slovakia, a dataset was constructed that illustrates when and how often each municipality was affected by disastrous conditions before the elections. The analysis revealed that experiencing a flood significantly increased the level of political
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Utilising qualitative data for social network analysis in disaster research: opportunities, challenges, and an illustration Disasters (IF 3.311) Pub Date : 2023-07-20 Bailey C. Benedict, Seungyoon Lee, Caitlyn M. Jarvis, Laura K. Siebeneck, Rachel Wolfe
An abundance of unstructured and loosely structured data on disasters exists and can be analysed using network methods. This paper overviews the use of qualitative data in quantitative social network analysis in disaster research. It discusses two types of networks, each with a relevant major topic in disaster research—that is, (i) whole network approaches to emergency management networks and (ii)
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Recovering the status quo: tipping points and earthquake aftermaths in colonial India Disasters (IF 3.311) Pub Date : 2023-07-14 Daniel Haines
Scholars of disaster politics debate how far natural hazards cause or catalyse political change. This paper builds on recent scholarship on tipping points and social contracts to argue that two case studies of historical earthquakes in 1930s British-colonised India invite a focus on the dynamics of cooperation and conflict between state and non-state actors. Officials of the colonial state and its
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Organised crisis volunteers, COVID-19, and the political steering of crisis management in Sweden Disasters (IF 3.311) Pub Date : 2023-07-14 Malin E. Wimelius, Veronica Strandh
This paper explores and analyses the activities of Swedish organised crisis volunteers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Based on a questionnaire and interviews, it sets out to answer two research questions on what characterised organised volunteerism during the pandemic, how organised volunteers experienced cooperation with local public actors, and how they viewed political steering. The paper contributes
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Counter-terrorism and humanitarian action: UK INGO responses since 2015 Disasters (IF 3.311) Pub Date : 2023-07-14 Sam Nadel, Oliver Walton
There has been growing awareness in recent years of the wide-ranging negative impacts that counter-terrorism measures and sanctions impose on humanitarian action. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with the staff of international non-governmental organisations (INGOs), this paper examines these impacts on INGOs based in the United Kingdom. This is a context where a particularly complex array of
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The warming city: the increasing risk of summer fires in Delhi Disasters (IF 3.311) Pub Date : 2023-06-21 Greg Bankoff, Sarika Chakravarty, Steve Jordan
Rising temperatures are mainly associated with wildfires, but the incidence of fire may also increase in the urban context. Yet, fire in Delhi, India, as elsewhere in the towns and cities of the Global South, remains largely invisible, despite the nearly 11 million people each year who are burnt severely enough to require medical attention. This paper focuses on whether summer temperatures in Delhi
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Is male out-migration associated with women's participation in post-disaster rebuilding? Evidence from Nepal after the 2015 Gorkha earthquake Disasters (IF 3.311) Pub Date : 2023-06-06 Shana Scogin
How does male out-migration impact women's experience of post-disaster reconstruction? This paper employs survey data collected by Nepal's Housing Recovery Reconstruction Platform in 2018 to establish robust associations between male out-migration and three indicators of women's participation in rebuilding their private houses after the 2015 Gorkha earthquake: (i) knowing where to consult for information;
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Evidence of policy learning in emergency declarations as communication tools in Australia Disasters (IF 3.311) Pub Date : 2023-05-25 Ben Beccari
Emergency declarations are important legal tools for the state to protect itself and its citizens during times of crisis. Such declarations permit the exercise of extraordinary powers to address an emergency or disaster. They present an opportunity to explore policy learning in crises, through the ability to examine emergency declaration instruments and the detail of post-emergency inquiries and reviews
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Disaster solidarity and survivor ethics: a case study of Hurricane María in Puerto Rico Disasters (IF 3.311) Pub Date : 2023-05-25 Robert W. Schrauf, Patria C. López de Victoria Rodríguez
Liminal periods of disaster solidarity in the aftermath of disaster are a common experience of many survivors. These periods have a specifically ethical component in that people spontaneously engage in collective, altruistic action and magnanimously expand their ethical focus beyond normative social distinctions and hierarchies. Inevitably, however, such solidarity seems to wane, and people return
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Defining, collecting, and sharing perishable disaster data Disasters (IF 3.311) Pub Date : 2023-05-22 Rachel M. Adams, Candace M. Evans, Lori Peek
Researchers across disciplines have long sought to collect ‘perishable data’ in the context of disasters. Yet, this data type is neither consistently defined nor discussed in specific detail in the literature. To address this gap, this paper defines perishable data and provides guidance on ways to improve both how it is collected and shared. Here, perishable data is conceptualised as highly transient
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Conceptualising multiple hazards and cascading effects on critical infrastructures Disasters (IF 3.311) Pub Date : 2023-05-18 Karina Barquet, Mathilda Englund, Katarina Inga, Karin André, Lisa Segnestam
Despite increased research on ‘multiple hazards’ and ‘cascading effects’, ambiguity remains concerning terminology. This paper reviews the literature to explore how these two concepts are defined in relation to critical infrastructures and their vital societal functions. Next, it investigates how the concepts are operationalised in Swedish disaster risk management. Findings indicate that regardless
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Community resilience across Australia towards natural hazards: an application of the Conjoint Community Resiliency Assessment Measurement Disasters (IF 3.311) Pub Date : 2023-05-16 Kerstin K. Zander, Rifka Sibarani, Matthew Abunyewah, Michael Odei Erdiaw-Kwasie, Simon A. Moss, Jonatan Lassa, Stephen T. Garnett
Natural hazards can turn into disasters when not managed well. An important part of disaster risk reduction is to understand how well communities are prepared for natural hazards and how well they can cope with and recover from shocks in the long term. This research assesses self-reported community resilience and asks what makes a community resilient, using Australia as a case study. It reports on
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Divergent dynamics: disasters and conflicts as ‘drivers’ of internal displacement? Disasters (IF 3.311) Pub Date : 2023-05-12 David James Cantor
Disasters and conflicts are both widely recognised as ‘drivers’ of internal displacement. Yet, despite a growing body of research and policy, there has been little consideration to date of how the different features of each ‘context’ shape the micro-level dynamics of internal displacement. Where and why are these dynamics similar across the two contexts and how do they differ? This paper draws on general
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In the arena: contesting disaster creation in cities Disasters (IF 3.311) Pub Date : 2023-05-09 Wesley Webb Cheek, Ksenia Chmutina, Jason von Meding
Space is a feature of all disasters, and it is through decisions on how space is developed, used, and reproduced that disasters manifest themselves. Critical urban theory sees urban space—cities—as an arena of contestation expressed through the relationship between people, power, and the built environment. Cities allow for an unpacking of this process of contestation through the interpretation of various
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Corrigendum Disasters (IF 3.311) Pub Date : 2023-04-25
Kirk, T., D. Green, T. Allen, T. Carayannis, J. Bazonzi, J. Ndala, P. Stys, P. Muzuri, A. Nyenyezi, K. Vlassenroot, A. D. A. Nyuon, A. Macdonald, A. Owor, L. Storer, J. Okello, J. Hopwood, H. Porter, R. Oryem, M. Parker, and G. Akello (2021) ‘Crisis responses, opportunity, and public authority during Covid-19’s first wave in Uganda, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and South Sudan’. Disasters. 45(S1)
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Disasters and corruption: public expectations and tolerance—evidence from Mexico Disasters (IF 3.311) Pub Date : 2023-04-25 Vincent T. Gawronski, Barry S. Levitt, Richard S. Olson
Disaster corruption is a vexing problem, damaging state legitimacy and exacerbating human suffering. Mexico has a history of both major disasters and persistently high levels of corruption. A magnitude 7.1 earthquake in 2017 provided an opportunity to study change over time in expectations and tolerance of corruption in disaster relief. Twenty years earlier, Mexico City residents expected, on average
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Disaster preparedness and community helping behaviour in the wake of the 2020 Oregon wildfires Disasters (IF 3.311) Pub Date : 2023-04-21 Muhammad Usman Amin Siddiqi, Leanne Giordono, Chad Zanocco, Greg Stelmach, June Flora, Hilary Boudet
Extreme weather events are increasing in frequency and severity owing to climate change. Individual-level behavioural responses—notably, disaster preparedness and community helping actions (such as donating and volunteering)—supplement government efforts to respond to such phenomena, but rarely have they been explored together. Using data from a survey administered soon after the 2020 Oregon wildfires
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Corporate sector engagement in contemporary ‘crises’: the case of refugee integration in Germany Disasters (IF 3.311) Pub Date : 2023-04-17 Tanja R. Müller
Refugee integration is one of the main global challenges of the present, at a time when the corporate sector is regarded as a key actor in multi-stakeholder partnerships through the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. This paper examines its role as a partner of the state in addressing the movement of refugees into Germany from 2015 onwards. Based on interview data and informal conversations with
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Fighting with words: humanitarian security and the changing role of law in contemporary armed conflict Disasters (IF 3.311) Pub Date : 2023-04-10 Iida-Maria Tammi
Violence against humanitarians is a commonplace phenomenon in contemporary armed conflict. This paper examines how the manipulation of international legal principles for political or military purposes, a practice known as ‘lawfare’, impacts humanitarian security in conflict-affected areas. Drawing on a case study of the Syrian conflict (2011–), it finds that lawfare has been used to legitimate systematic
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Disasters and the diminishing of women's economic empowerment Disasters (IF 3.311) Pub Date : 2023-04-10 Willow Kreutzer, Carly Millerd, Nathan Timbs
This paper examines, both theoretically and empirically, the relationship between rapid-onset disasters and women's economic freedom. Rapid-onset disasters create difficulties for all involved, but without proper discussion of and changes to women's economic status in society, they will continue to suffer disproportionately. The study answers the following question: ‘how do disasters impact women's
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An analytical framework for household entitlement assessment in civil war Disasters (IF 3.311) Pub Date : 2023-03-10 Aziz Arya, Rico Ihle, Wim Heijman
Amartya Sen, the economist and philosopher, defines entitlement as command over resources that permits a household to have access to essential goods and services to sustain life within legal and established social norms and practices. Entitlement failure occurs when a household's command over all available combinations of resources does not ensure sufficient provisions of food to avoid starvation.
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Disaster mobilities, temporalities, and recovery: experiences of the tsunami in the Maldives Disasters (IF 3.311) Pub Date : 2023-02-22 Uma Kothari, Alex Arnall, Aishath Azfa
Large-scale disasters are frequently portrayed as temporally bounded, linear events after which survivors are encouraged to ‘move on’ as quickly as possible. In this paper, we explore how understandings of disaster mobilities and temporalities challenge such perspectives. Drawing on empirical research undertaken on Dhuvaafaru in the Maldives, a small island uninhabited until 2009 when it was populated
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International humanitarian narratives of disasters, crises, and Indigeneity Disasters (IF 3.311) Pub Date : 2023-02-21 Anuszka Mosurska, Aaron Clark-Ginsberg, James Ford, Susannah M. Sallu, Katy Davis
Narratives are a means of making sense of disasters and crises. The humanitarian sector communicates stories widely, encompassing representations of peoples and events. Such communications have been critiqued for misrepresenting and/or silencing the root causes of disasters and crises, depoliticising them. What has not been researched is how such communications represent disasters and crises in Indigenous
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Investigating the impact of a community disaster awareness training on subjective disaster preparedness: the case of Myanmar's Ayeyarwaddy region Disasters (IF 3.311) Pub Date : 2023-02-11 Moamen Gouda, Yunjeong Yang
This paper investigates the impact of a community disaster awareness training on subjective disaster preparedness, focusing on the case of a Republic of Korean aid-supported disaster risk reduction project in the Ayeyarwaddy region of Myanmar. A subsequent survey by the authors of a total of 182 households, an equal number of project participating and control households, produced encouraging results
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Local news sentiment towards FEMA recovery efforts after Hurricane Florence in North Carolina Disasters (IF 3.311) Pub Date : 2022-12-09 Julia Cardwell, Kristen N. Cowan
Newspaper sentiment and framing have the power to represent and inform public opinion on a variety of important issues. This study examines local news articles after Hurricane Florence struck North Carolina in the United States in September 2018 to understand the framing efforts undertaken by the outlets that produced these reports, as well as their impact on news sentiment towards the flood recovery
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The ‘conflict paradox’: humanitarian access, localisation, and (dis)empowerment in Myanmar, Somalia, and Somaliland Disasters (IF 3.311) Pub Date : 2022-12-09 Dustin Barter, Gun Mai Sumlut
Since the World Humanitarian Summit in 2016, debates about the localisation of humanitarian aid have intensified. Dominant discourse focuses on reform, although calls for the broader decolonisation of aid are mounting. This paper examines the impact of neoliberal-inspired competition that incentivises institutional expansion and clashes with localisation. It introduces the concept of the ‘conflict
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Paranirvar mānis (dependent people)? Rethinking humanitarian dependency syndrome: a Bourdieusian perspective Disasters (IF 3.311) Pub Date : 2022-12-05 Jeevan Karki, Steve Matthewman, Jesse Hession Grayman
Disaster survivors are often criticised for being dependent on humanitarian (and development) assistance. This dependency is perceived pejoratively by civil servants and other elites, including non-governmental organisation staff. Officials offered up such narratives in relation to the disaster response and recovery programmes following the Nepal earthquake of 2015. Using a Bourdieusian framework,
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Gaps in humanitarian WASH response: perspectives from people affected by crises, practitioners, global responders, and the literature Disasters (IF 3.311) Pub Date : 2022-11-22 Travis Yates, Andy Bastable, John Allen, Cecilie Hestbæk, Bushra Hasan, Paul Hutchings, Monica Ramos, Tula Ngasala, Daniele Lantagne
Water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) interventions prevent and control disease in humanitarian response. To inform future funding and policy priorities, WASH ‘gaps’ were identified via 220 focus-group discussions with people affected by crises and WASH practitioners, 246 global survey respondents, and 614 documents. After extraction, 2,888 (48 per cent) gaps from direct feedback and 3,151 (52 per
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Negotiating humanitarian space with criminal armed groups in urban Latin America Disasters (IF 3.311) Pub Date : 2022-11-15 Elena Lucchi, Moritz Schuberth
Humanitarian and development agencies intervening in Latin American cities increasingly face the challenge posed by criminal armed groups (CAGs). Yet, there is a need for evidence-based comparative studies on how international agencies deal with them. Drawing on data collected in Colombia, El Salvador, Haiti, Honduras, and Mexico, this paper presents a novel typology of humanitarian organisations'
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From pity to fear: security as a mechanism for (re)production of vulnerability Disasters (IF 3.311) Pub Date : 2022-11-10 Ksenia Chmutina, Jason von Meding, Darien Alexander Williams, Jamie Vickery, Carlee Purdum
Vulnerability is not only a shared basic condition, but also a condition of potential. In the context of disasters and crises, the concept of vulnerability is frequently used to portray individuals and groups as ‘weak’, ‘threatened’, and ‘in need of help’. Occasionally, though, a shift occurs and the ‘threatened’—and therefore usually the pitied—become those who are feared and hated, that is, they
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Rethinking disaster utopia: the limits of conspicuous resilience for community-based recovery and adaptation Disasters (IF 3.311) Pub Date : 2022-11-07 Summer Gray
While some communities appear to blossom in the wake of a disaster, others are left to struggle in the ashes. This paper introduces the concept of ‘conspicuous resilience’ to understand how emergent community-based recovery efforts privilege some needs while marginalising others, contributing to uneven forms of recovery. Drawing on a qualitative case study of the deadly Montecito debris flow in Southern
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Solutions discourse in disaster displacement: implications for policy and practice Disasters (IF 3.311) Pub Date : 2022-10-31 Ana Mosneaga
Displacement in the context of disasters and climate change has gained considerable attention in international policy processes pertaining to migration and displacement over the past few years. However, analysis of currently dominant understandings of disaster displacement and its solutions at the global level, and how these translate into practice in relation to operational realities at the national
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‘No-one knows how to care for LGBT community like LGBT do’1: LGBTQIA+ experiences of COVID-19 in the United Kingdom and Brazil Disasters (IF 3.311) Pub Date : 2022-10-30 Billy Tusker Haworth, Luan Carpes Barros Cassal, Tiago de Paula Muniz
The coronavirus pandemic and responses to it have had uneven impacts on different segments of societies. This study analysed the experiences of LGBTQIA+2 people during the COVID-19 emergency, based on interviews in the United Kingdom and Brazil in 2020. The two countries are instructive cases, given the different social, cultural, economic, and political contexts. Pre-existing marginalisation shaped
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Psychological First Aid principles within a community-led arts initiative: lessons from the Blacksmiths' Tree Disasters (IF 3.311) Pub Date : 2022-10-08 Lilith Korndörffer, Carolynne White, Jessica L. Mackelprang
Psychological First Aid (PFA) is widely used in the early phases of disaster recovery, despite limited empirical evidence supporting its application. PFA aims to reduce distress and encourage adaptive coping and is grounded in five principles: the promotion of hope, self- and collective efficacy, social connectedness, safety, and calm. Drawing on a constructivist perspective, this study analysed interview
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Editorial Disasters (IF 3.311) Pub Date : 2022-09-03 Sara Pantuliano, Matthew Foley
We are very sorry to have to say farewell to our colleague Professor Helen Young, who is stepping back from her role as co-editor of Disasters. Helen joined the journal in 1997, offering a wealth of expertise across a vast range of subjects, with a particular focus on nutrition, livelihoods, and resilience in emergencies. During a rich career spanning the NGO (non-governmental organisation) sector
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Governance and the design of post-disaster policies: a comparative analysis from Latin America and the Caribbean Disasters (IF 3.311) Pub Date : 2022-09-02 Marco Córdova, Jonathan Menoscal, Esteban Moreno Flores
Latin America and the Caribbean is one of the regions threatened most by natural events owing to the highly vulnerable circumstances of its urban centres. Consequently, its cities are occasionally affected by one or more disaster types, exposing problems of governance and public policy in relation to risk management. The aim of this research is to investigate the factors that influence the design of
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The policy landscape and challenges of disaster risk financing: navigating risk and uncertainty Disasters (IF 3.311) Pub Date : 2022-08-30 Olivia G. Taylor
A more anticipatory, pre-agreed response is a shared goal of many in the disaster management and humanitarian communities. This paper considers the emerging policy landscape of disaster risk financing (DRF), which is taken here to include mechanisms that allow agencies to act in advance of disasters occurring, as well as those that aim to respond earlier to disasters which have already happened. What
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Enhancing the resilience and well-being of rural poor to climate risks: are the economic functions of social protection enough? Disasters (IF 3.311) Pub Date : 2022-08-01 Hare Krisna Kundo, Martin Brueckner, Rochelle Spencer, John K. Davis
As climate change accelerates, adaptive social protection programmes are becoming increasingly more popular than conventional social assistance programmes, since they are seen to enhance people's resilience and well-being outcomes. Despite this upsurge, little is known about the impacts of adaptive programmes on resilience and well-being outcomes as compared to conventional programmes. This paper examines
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A disaster's disparate impacts: analysing perceived stress and personal resilience across gender and race Disasters (IF 3.311) Pub Date : 2022-07-29 Clare E.B. Cannon, Regardt Ferreira, Fred Buttell
This research sought to identify differences in perceived stress and personal resilience across gender, race, and different types of stressors (such as rent or mortgage stress) among a sample of United States residents experiencing the COVID-19 pandemic. It used a cross-sectional, convenience sampling design for primary survey data collected over 10 weeks starting in April 2020 (n=374). Independent
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International media coverage promotes donations to a climate disaster Disasters (IF 3.311) Pub Date : 2022-07-16 Cassandra M. Chapman, Matthew J. Hornsey, Kelly S. Fielding, Robyn Gulliver
The Australian bushfires in 2019–20 triggered massive amounts of charitable giving from the community. This study applied agenda-setting theory to examine if and how disaster news coverage influenced public donations in response to the crisis. A survey of 949 Australians found that people perceived news coverage of the event to be a strong influence on the amount they donated to bushfire appeals, over
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NGO–academia research co-production in humanitarian settings: opportunities and challenges Disasters (IF 3.311) Pub Date : 2022-07-16 Michelle Lokot, Caitlin Wake
The term ‘co-production’ is increasingly used to describe varied forms of research partnerships, expanding from its application within the health sector to other areas. In humanitarian settings, alongside more calls for localisation and decolonising aid, research co-production is emerging as a means of tackling power dynamics within NGO (non-governmental organisation)–academia research partnerships
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Redefining shelter: humanitarian sheltering Disasters (IF 3.311) Pub Date : 2022-07-04 Jennifer Ward George, Peter Guthrie, John J. Orr
Shelter is one of the most ‘intractable problems’ in humanitarian aid and yet there is little clarity on an overarching definition. Terminology for shelter and housing is often conflated, and the most prominent definition does not fully reflect recent progress in the Shelter and Settlements Sector. This paper explores the varying terminology utilised in definitions of shelter within humanitarian aid