Alternatives for Sustained Disaster Risk Reduction: A Re-assessment

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aut.relation.articlenumbera1487
aut.relation.issue1
aut.relation.journalJàmbá: Journal of Disaster Risk Studies
aut.relation.volume15
dc.contributor.authorLe De, Loic
dc.contributor.authorBaumann, Louise L
dc.contributor.authorMoatty, Annabelle
dc.contributor.authorLe Masson, Virginie
dc.contributor.authorKikano, Faten
dc.contributor.authorFayazi, Mahmood
dc.contributor.authorFernandez, Manuela
dc.contributor.authorTomassi, Isabella
dc.contributor.authorCadag, Jake Rom D
dc.date.accessioned2023-08-01T02:30:47Z
dc.date.available2023-08-01T02:30:47Z
dc.date.issued2023-07-26
dc.description.abstractAlternatives for sustained disaster risk reduction’ was published in 2010 by Francophone and Anglophone researchers as a critique on the way disasters were studied and disaster risk reduction handled in the Francophone sphere. The authors criticized the dominant Francophone approach for being heavily hazard-centred and called for more emphasis on vulnerability to understand disasters and foster disaster risk reduction – a shift that had already taken place in the Anglophone disaster literature. Twelve years later, this paper draws upon a bibliographic analysis to examine if the arguments developed in the 2010 publication have stem attention in the Francophone disaster literature.Contribution: The article finds that the shift towards the vulnerability paradigm has, to some extent, happened but took much longer in the French context than in the Spanish language and the Asian disaster literature. The article emphasises the need for a re-assessment of our practices and study of disasters, including reflections on what disasters are studied, how, by whom, and for whom. Eventually, alternatives for sustained disaster risk reduction now and in the future might include drawing upon more diverse ontologies and epistemologies that are pertinent locally, considering local people as co-researchers though participatory methods, and empowering local Francophone researchers to play a greater role in researching disasters and leading disaster risk reduction in their own localities.
dc.identifier.citationJàmbá: Journal of Disaster Risk Studies, ISSN: 2072-845X (Print); 1996-1421 (Online), AOSIS, 15(1). doi: 10.4102/jamba.v15i1.1487
dc.identifier.doi10.4102/jamba.v15i1.1487
dc.identifier.issn2072-845X
dc.identifier.issn1996-1421
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10292/16487
dc.publisherAOSIS
dc.relation.urihttps://jamba.org.za/index.php/jamba/article/view/1487
dc.rights.accessrightsOpenAccess
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.titleAlternatives for Sustained Disaster Risk Reduction: A Re-assessment
dc.typeJournal Article
pubs.elements-id518888
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