J C Gaillard
Biographic Data
| ID | 3635879 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J C Gaillard |
| GIVEN NAMES | J C |
| FAMILY NAME | Gaillard |
| SIGNATURE | GAILLARD J C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Auckland |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 223 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Managing uncertainty: Group assignment tasks that encourage education as sustainability
Purpose This article aims to explore how group-based assignments can contribute to education as sustainability. More specifically, it investigates how the tasks completed as part of group-based assignments contribute to the development of students’ interpersonal competencies in sustainability-focused education. Design/methodology/approach A case study methodology was used to analyse students’ responses to group-based assignments in three sustaina…
Understanding and Addressing Disaster Risk: Who Speaks? Who Suffers
In Understanding and Addressing Disaster Risk, the authors explain how people modify the environment and exert power over each other in ways that make nature potentially harmful and put people in harm’s way. Opportunities and challenges faced by those engaging with disaster risk are explored. Across 11 chapters, the authors show that disasters are not natural, are not events, and do not happen quickly. Instead, they are the result of chronic soci…
Advances and challenges in DRR investment and financing: An analysis in three parts – Part II. Section 2: Expert perspectives on DRR investment and financing
Purpose This article aims to synthesize expert analyses on progress, challenges and innovations in disaster risk reduction (DRR) financing and investment since the Hyogo Framework (HF) (2005–2015). It highlights systemic barriers, emerging strategies and lessons for policymakers. Design/methodology/approach Contributions from nine DRR experts are analysed, focusing on historical trends, case studies (e.g. Kenya’s FLLoCA Program) and empirical dat…
A conversation towards post-colonial futures for disaster risk reduction in South Asia
Purpose This conversation highlights the need to rethink how we approach disaster risk reduction in different South Asian contexts. Design/methodology/approach This paper is based on the webinar held as part of Asia Week at the University of Copenhagen which was organised by Asian Dynamics Initiative and Copenhagen Centre for Disaster Research on the September 12, 2023. Findings The prominent themes emerging from this conversation represents hybr…
Tourism Platforms and the Digital Biopolitics of Nature: An Interface Analysis of TripAdvisor in Patagonia-Aysén, Chile
This article investigates how digital platforms are implicated in the neoliberalization of conservation by turning nature and protected areas into tourism commodities. We mobilize Ash et al.’s (Citation2018) heuristic of unit, vibration, and tone to analyze TripAdvisor’s interfaces for contributing, exploring, and reviewing nature-based points of interest in Patagonia-Aysén, Chile. We contend that digital tourism platforms express what we term di…
Maps, volunteered geographic information (VGI) and the spatio-discursive construction of nature
This paper interrogates the role that spatial media such as maps and Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) play in the construction and mobilisation of representations of nature. Drawing on poststructural political ecology, critical cartography, and GIScience, this article engages maps and VGI as discursive mechanisms that solidify and convey meanings and representations of nature tied to broader strategies of commodification. Particularly, we…
Exploring the use of the Quake Safe House video game to foster disaster and disaster risk reduction awareness in museum visitors
Researching the capabilities of people with disabilities: Would a critical realist methodology help
Amartya Sen’s capability approach is often used in disability research as a normative framework for describing and evaluating the well-being of people with disabilities. Nevertheless, recently, the possibility of going beyond description to the use of the capability approach as an explanatory tool has been raised. However, to allow the use of the capability approach in this way requires grounding it in an appropriate research paradigm. In this pa…
The Invention of Disaster: Power and Knowledge in Discourses on Hazard and Vulnerability
This theoretical contribution argues that the domination of Western knowledge in disaster scholarship has allowed normative policies and practices of disaster risk reduction to be imposed all over the world. It takes a postcolonial approach to unpack why scholars claim that disasters are social constructs while offering little but theories, concepts and methods supposed to be universal in understanding the unique and diverse experiences of millio…
Human agency in disaster risk reduction: Theoretical foundations and empirical evidence from people with disabilities
To date, the agency of people with disabilities has seldom been elaborated theoretically and empirically in disaster research. Drawing on the capability approach, this paper examines the agency of people with disabilities to deal with disasters. Their agency is explored in relation to their participation in decision-making processes which has long regarded as a means to disaster risk reduction. A case study design with the use of focus group disc…
A critical realist explanation for the capabilities of people with disabilities in dealing with disasters
The capability approach has recently been recognised as a potential explanatory theory in disability research. However, to strengthen its explanatory power, it is argued that it should be grounded in a critical realist research paradigm. While critical realism is increasingly adopted in social inquiry, to date there remains little research that elaborates how a critical realist methodology is applied in capability and disability research, especia…
People’s Participation in Disaster-Risk Reduction: Recentering Power
People’s participation is widely acknowledged as a necessary component of effective, efficient, and inclusive disaster-risk reduction. However, there is little reflection on how commitments for participation in disaster literature and policy translate into meaningful participation in practice. Participation often takes the form of standardized, top-down approaches that have little interaction with decision-making processes. Such approaches often …
‘Serious’ Disaster Video Games: An Innovative Approach to Teaching and Learning about Disasters and Disaster Risk Reduction
Scholars, practitioners and educators propose video games as innovative teaching methods to engage geography students. A methodological framework, informed by constructivist learning theory, explored the ability of ‘serious’ disaster video games to foster student participation in learning within four New Zealand schools. The findings indicate the utilization of video games within the classroom requires further consideration of the teaching and le…
Identifying Emerging Issues in Disaster Risk Reduction, Migration, Climate Change and Sustainable Development: Shaping Debates and Policies
Sexual and gender minorities in disaster
This article introduces a themed section of Gender, Place and Culture on ‘Sexual and Gender Minorities in Disaster’. This introduction frames the articles constituting the themed section, which together contribute important insights to the growing body of research, policy and practice on the experiences of sexual and gender minorities in disasters. The introduction positions the themed section at the intersection of disaster studies and geography…
Natural Hazards and Disasters
Apprehending the causes of disasters associated with natural hazards has stimulated much discussion among geographers. In particular, they have debated about the relative role of natural versus human factors in the increasing, but spatially unequal, occurrence of documented disasters. These debates have had a powerful influence on disaster risk management as well as postdisaster reconstruction policies and practices
Beyond men and women: A Critical Perspective on Gender and Disaster
Consideration of gender in the disaster sphere has centred almost exclusively on the vulnerability and capacities of women. This trend stems from a polarised Western understanding of gender as a binary concept of man-woman. Such an approach also mirrors the dominant framing of disasters and disaster risk reduction (DRR), emphasising Western standards and practices to the detriment of local, non-Western identities and experiences. This paper argue…
Learning from the history of disaster vulnerability and resilience research and practice for climate change
Humanity has long sought to explain and understand why environmental processes and phenomena contribute to and interfere with development processes, frequently through the terms and concepts of ‘vulnerability’ and ‘resilience’. Many proven ideas and approaches from development and disaster risk reduction literature are not fully considered by contemporary climate change work. This chapter describes the importance of older vulnerability and resili…
Engaging communities in managing multiple hazards: Reflections from small islands in North Sulawesi, Indonesia
Participatory methods are a common approach for giving voice to local communities in hazard and disaster research. Drawing on a study that trialled and modified a range of participatory methods in North Sulawesi, eastern Indonesia, this paper reflects on how such methods help document the capacities of small island communities. We assessed capacity from a sustainable livelihoods perspective, identifying the assets that enable villagers to cope wi…
Participatory numbers for integrating knowledge and actions in development
This article discusses the opportunities and challenges associated with the use of quantitative participatory methods and participatory numbers for integrating locals’ and outsiders’ knowledge, as well as actions from the bottom-up and top-down, in development. It places emphasis on the contribution of quantitative participatory methods and participatory numbers to foster dialogue between a wide range of stakeholders, for example, local people, N…
Climate Change’s Role in Disaster Risk Reduction’s Future: Beyond Vulnerability and Resilience
A seminal policy year for development and sustainability occurs in 2015 due to three parallel processes that seek long-term agreements for climate change, the Sustainable Development Goals, and disaster risk reduction. Little reason exists to separate them, since all three examine and aim to deal with many similar processes, including vulnerability and resilience. This article uses vulnerability and resilience to explore the intersections and ove…
Poverty and Disasters: Do Remittances Reproduce Vulnerability
In many low-income countries, remittances are important in sustaining people’s livelihood and become even more significant during disasters. Meanwhile, the literature suggests that remittances are mainly accessible to middle and upper-income households, rather than to the poorest, thus implying differential capacities amongst households to overcome crises. The present study uses cyclone Evan that hit Samoa in December 2012 as a case study to test…
Remittances in the face of disasters: A case study of rural Samoa
Academics doing participatory disaster research: How participatory is it
Participatory methods in disaster research and disaster risk reduction are increasingly used by non-governmental organizations (NGOs), government agencies, and academics. The three key principles of participatory research are: (a) empowering the powerless, (b) instigating changes at policy level, and (c) generating sustainable solutions that match with local communities' needs. Yet, academic research is inherently extractive and local people are …
From Deviant to Bakla , Strong to Stronger: Mainstreaming Sexual and Gender Minorities into Disaster Risk Reduction in the Philippines
Disaster risk reduction (DRR), and indeed development at large, has traditionally been reluctant to acknowledge and accept the issue of gendered and sexual diversity in its mainstream policy design and practice. Recent forays into mainstreaming gender and sexual minorities into DRR have, however, highlighted the crucial role that these minorities play in bigger development aspirations of participation and empowerment. This debate article explores…
From knowledge to action: Bridging gaps in disaster risk reduction
A large amount of studies have been produced on disaster-related issues over the last century of research, yet there continues to be gaps in translating knowledge into action. This paper discusses the battlefield of knowledge and action for disaster risk reduction (DRR), outlining the need for a more integrative process consisting of bottom-up and top-down actions, local and scientific knowledge, and a vast array of stakeholders. The challenges i…
Religions, natural hazards, and disasters: An introduction
This editorial serves as an introduction to the special issue of Religion on Religions, Natural Hazards, and Disasters. It sets out some conceptual background and briefly reviews the existing literature on religion, natural hazards, and disasters. It also provides a brief assessment of the role of religious and groups in reducing the risk of disasters
Beyond men and women: A Critical Perspective on Gender and Disaster
Consideration of gender in the disaster sphere has centred almost exclusively on the vulnerability and capacities of women. This trend stems from a polarised Western understanding of gender as a binary concept of man-woman. Such an approach also mirrors the dominant framing of disasters and disaster risk reduction (DRR), emphasising Western standards and practices to the detriment of local, non-Western identities and experiences. This paper argue…
Disaster risk at the margins: Homelessness, vulnerability and hazards
The warias of Indonesia in disaster risk reduction: The case of the 2010 Mt Merapi eruption in Indonesia
International audience
Culture and disaster risk reduction: Lessons and opportunities
The value of physical science in mitigating the effects of environmental hazards is well acknowledged. Less acknowledged are the cultural influences affecting adoption of disaster risk reduction strategies, that is what influence 'culture' has upon hazard and risk. This paper explores the need to consider 'culture' within disaster risk reduction and cross disciplinary boundaries through four key questions: (a) How relevant is 'culture' to disaste…
From Deviant to Bakla , Strong to Stronger: Mainstreaming Sexual and Gender Minorities into Disaster Risk Reduction in the Philippines
Disaster risk reduction (DRR), and indeed development at large, has traditionally been reluctant to acknowledge and accept the issue of gendered and sexual diversity in its mainstream policy design and practice. Recent forays into mainstreaming gender and sexual minorities into DRR have, however, highlighted the crucial role that these minorities play in bigger development aspirations of participation and empowerment. This debate article explores…
Sexual and gender minorities in disaster
This article introduces a themed section of Gender, Place and Culture on ‘Sexual and Gender Minorities in Disaster’. This introduction frames the articles constituting the themed section, which together contribute important insights to the growing body of research, policy and practice on the experiences of sexual and gender minorities in disasters. The introduction positions the themed section at the intersection of disaster studies and geography…
Maps, volunteered geographic information (VGI) and the spatio-discursive construction of nature
This paper interrogates the role that spatial media such as maps and Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) play in the construction and mobilisation of representations of nature. Drawing on poststructural political ecology, critical cartography, and GIScience, this article engages maps and VGI as discursive mechanisms that solidify and convey meanings and representations of nature tied to broader strategies of commodification. Particularly, we…
Participatory numbers for integrating knowledge and actions in development
This article discusses the opportunities and challenges associated with the use of quantitative participatory methods and participatory numbers for integrating locals’ and outsiders’ knowledge, as well as actions from the bottom-up and top-down, in development. It places emphasis on the contribution of quantitative participatory methods and participatory numbers to foster dialogue between a wide range of stakeholders, for example, local people, N…
Academics doing participatory disaster research: How participatory is it
Participatory methods in disaster research and disaster risk reduction are increasingly used by non-governmental organizations (NGOs), government agencies, and academics. The three key principles of participatory research are: (a) empowering the powerless, (b) instigating changes at policy level, and (c) generating sustainable solutions that match with local communities' needs. Yet, academic research is inherently extractive and local people are …
Human agency in disaster risk reduction: Theoretical foundations and empirical evidence from people with disabilities
To date, the agency of people with disabilities has seldom been elaborated theoretically and empirically in disaster research. Drawing on the capability approach, this paper examines the agency of people with disabilities to deal with disasters. Their agency is explored in relation to their participation in decision-making processes which has long regarded as a means to disaster risk reduction. A case study design with the use of focus group disc…
Natural Hazards and Disasters
Apprehending the causes of disasters associated with natural hazards has stimulated much discussion among geographers. In particular, they have debated about the relative role of natural versus human factors in the increasing, but spatially unequal, occurrence of documented disasters. These debates have had a powerful influence on disaster risk management as well as postdisaster reconstruction policies and practices
Tourism Platforms and the Digital Biopolitics of Nature: An Interface Analysis of TripAdvisor in Patagonia-Aysén, Chile
This article investigates how digital platforms are implicated in the neoliberalization of conservation by turning nature and protected areas into tourism commodities. We mobilize Ash et al.’s (Citation2018) heuristic of unit, vibration, and tone to analyze TripAdvisor’s interfaces for contributing, exploring, and reviewing nature-based points of interest in Patagonia-Aysén, Chile. We contend that digital tourism platforms express what we term di…
A critical realist explanation for the capabilities of people with disabilities in dealing with disasters
The capability approach has recently been recognised as a potential explanatory theory in disability research. However, to strengthen its explanatory power, it is argued that it should be grounded in a critical realist research paradigm. While critical realism is increasingly adopted in social inquiry, to date there remains little research that elaborates how a critical realist methodology is applied in capability and disability research, especia…
Exposure to Wash-borne hazards: A scoping study on peri-urban Ger areas in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
Vulnerability, capacity and resilience: Perspectives for climate and development policy
In the decades since the terms ‘vulnerability’, ‘capacity’ and ‘resilience’ became popular in both the disaster and development literatures, through natural and social science discourses, the terms have been applied to many development‐ and disaster‐related policies and have been the subject of much debate and interpretation amongst various schools of thought. An illustrative review of the use of these terms is given followed by a critique of the…
Religions, natural hazards, and disasters: An introduction
This editorial serves as an introduction to the special issue of Religion on Religions, Natural Hazards, and Disasters. It sets out some conceptual background and briefly reviews the existing literature on religion, natural hazards, and disasters. It also provides a brief assessment of the role of religious and groups in reducing the risk of disasters
Handbook of Hazards and Disaster Risk Reduction
The Handbook provides a comprehensive statement and reference point for hazard and disaster research, policy making, and practice in an international and multi-disciplinary context. It offers critical reviews and appraisals of current state of the art and future development of conceptual, theoretical and practical approaches as well as empirical knowledge and available tools. Organized into five inter-related sections, this Handbook contains sixt…
The warias of Indonesia in disaster risk reduction: The case of the 2010 Mt Merapi eruption in Indonesia
International audience
From knowledge to action: Bridging gaps in disaster risk reduction
A large amount of studies have been produced on disaster-related issues over the last century of research, yet there continues to be gaps in translating knowledge into action. This paper discusses the battlefield of knowledge and action for disaster risk reduction (DRR), outlining the need for a more integrative process consisting of bottom-up and top-down actions, local and scientific knowledge, and a vast array of stakeholders. The challenges i…
Culture and disaster risk reduction: Lessons and opportunities
The value of physical science in mitigating the effects of environmental hazards is well acknowledged. Less acknowledged are the cultural influences affecting adoption of disaster risk reduction strategies, that is what influence 'culture' has upon hazard and risk. This paper explores the need to consider 'culture' within disaster risk reduction and cross disciplinary boundaries through four key questions: (a) How relevant is 'culture' to disaste…
The social responsibility of advocating for what is right, just and equitable
Academics doing participatory disaster research: How participatory is it
Participatory methods in disaster research and disaster risk reduction are increasingly used by non-governmental organizations (NGOs), government agencies, and academics. The three key principles of participatory research are: (a) empowering the powerless, (b) instigating changes at policy level, and (c) generating sustainable solutions that match with local communities' needs. Yet, academic research is inherently extractive and local people are …
From Deviant to Bakla , Strong to Stronger: Mainstreaming Sexual and Gender Minorities into Disaster Risk Reduction in the Philippines
Disaster risk reduction (DRR), and indeed development at large, has traditionally been reluctant to acknowledge and accept the issue of gendered and sexual diversity in its mainstream policy design and practice. Recent forays into mainstreaming gender and sexual minorities into DRR have, however, highlighted the crucial role that these minorities play in bigger development aspirations of participation and empowerment. This debate article explores…
Exposure to Wash-borne hazards: A scoping study on peri-urban Ger areas in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
Disaster risk at the margins: Homelessness, vulnerability and hazards
Climate Change’s Role in Disaster Risk Reduction’s Future: Beyond Vulnerability and Resilience
A seminal policy year for development and sustainability occurs in 2015 due to three parallel processes that seek long-term agreements for climate change, the Sustainable Development Goals, and disaster risk reduction. Little reason exists to separate them, since all three examine and aim to deal with many similar processes, including vulnerability and resilience. This article uses vulnerability and resilience to explore the intersections and ove…
Poverty and Disasters: Do Remittances Reproduce Vulnerability
In many low-income countries, remittances are important in sustaining people’s livelihood and become even more significant during disasters. Meanwhile, the literature suggests that remittances are mainly accessible to middle and upper-income households, rather than to the poorest, thus implying differential capacities amongst households to overcome crises. The present study uses cyclone Evan that hit Samoa in December 2012 as a case study to test…
Remittances in the face of disasters: A case study of rural Samoa
Learning from the history of disaster vulnerability and resilience research and practice for climate change
Humanity has long sought to explain and understand why environmental processes and phenomena contribute to and interfere with development processes, frequently through the terms and concepts of ‘vulnerability’ and ‘resilience’. Many proven ideas and approaches from development and disaster risk reduction literature are not fully considered by contemporary climate change work. This chapter describes the importance of older vulnerability and resili…
Engaging communities in managing multiple hazards: Reflections from small islands in North Sulawesi, Indonesia
Participatory methods are a common approach for giving voice to local communities in hazard and disaster research. Drawing on a study that trialled and modified a range of participatory methods in North Sulawesi, eastern Indonesia, this paper reflects on how such methods help document the capacities of small island communities. We assessed capacity from a sustainable livelihoods perspective, identifying the assets that enable villagers to cope wi…
Participatory numbers for integrating knowledge and actions in development
This article discusses the opportunities and challenges associated with the use of quantitative participatory methods and participatory numbers for integrating locals’ and outsiders’ knowledge, as well as actions from the bottom-up and top-down, in development. It places emphasis on the contribution of quantitative participatory methods and participatory numbers to foster dialogue between a wide range of stakeholders, for example, local people, N…
Identifying Emerging Issues in Disaster Risk Reduction, Migration, Climate Change and Sustainable Development: Shaping Debates and Policies
Sexual and gender minorities in disaster
This article introduces a themed section of Gender, Place and Culture on ‘Sexual and Gender Minorities in Disaster’. This introduction frames the articles constituting the themed section, which together contribute important insights to the growing body of research, policy and practice on the experiences of sexual and gender minorities in disasters. The introduction positions the themed section at the intersection of disaster studies and geography…
Natural Hazards and Disasters
Apprehending the causes of disasters associated with natural hazards has stimulated much discussion among geographers. In particular, they have debated about the relative role of natural versus human factors in the increasing, but spatially unequal, occurrence of documented disasters. These debates have had a powerful influence on disaster risk management as well as postdisaster reconstruction policies and practices
Beyond men and women: A Critical Perspective on Gender and Disaster
Consideration of gender in the disaster sphere has centred almost exclusively on the vulnerability and capacities of women. This trend stems from a polarised Western understanding of gender as a binary concept of man-woman. Such an approach also mirrors the dominant framing of disasters and disaster risk reduction (DRR), emphasising Western standards and practices to the detriment of local, non-Western identities and experiences. This paper argue…
People’s Participation in Disaster-Risk Reduction: Recentering Power
People’s participation is widely acknowledged as a necessary component of effective, efficient, and inclusive disaster-risk reduction. However, there is little reflection on how commitments for participation in disaster literature and policy translate into meaningful participation in practice. Participation often takes the form of standardized, top-down approaches that have little interaction with decision-making processes. Such approaches often …
‘Serious’ Disaster Video Games: An Innovative Approach to Teaching and Learning about Disasters and Disaster Risk Reduction
Scholars, practitioners and educators propose video games as innovative teaching methods to engage geography students. A methodological framework, informed by constructivist learning theory, explored the ability of ‘serious’ disaster video games to foster student participation in learning within four New Zealand schools. The findings indicate the utilization of video games within the classroom requires further consideration of the teaching and le…
Exploring the use of the Quake Safe House video game to foster disaster and disaster risk reduction awareness in museum visitors
Researching the capabilities of people with disabilities: Would a critical realist methodology help
Amartya Sen’s capability approach is often used in disability research as a normative framework for describing and evaluating the well-being of people with disabilities. Nevertheless, recently, the possibility of going beyond description to the use of the capability approach as an explanatory tool has been raised. However, to allow the use of the capability approach in this way requires grounding it in an appropriate research paradigm. In this pa…
Disaster Management and Resilience (20 works) · Political science (20 works) · Geography (19 works) · Disaster risk reduction (17 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration (13 works) · Environmental planning (13 works) · Computer Science (11 works) · Economics (10 works) · Public relations (9 works)