Nonprofit Disaster Response and Climate Change

Who Responds? Who Plans

Datos Bibliográficos

ID13038575
AutoresBeth Gazley (0000-0002-7352-4476, Indiana University Bloomington, autor de correspondencia), R J Cash (Indiana University Bloomington)
Año2023
Volumen15
Número4
Páginas287-313
Fecha de publicación2023-11-02
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaNonprofit Policy Forum (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2154-3348 • E-ISSN: 2194-6035
EditorialDe Gruyter (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/npf-2023-0017
OpenAlexW4388227405
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas31

As weather disasters intensify under the impacts of climate change, an important public policy question is whether the kinds of organizations most likely to provide disaster relief are themselves planning for climate change. A statewide Indiana survey of the leaders of a wide variety of community “social safety net” organizations ( N = 467) provides rich descriptive data to understand the realities of local disaster planning as it relates to climate change. Our findings support federal disaster policy in showing first that most of these charities have been or expect to be involved in local disaster relief, either as a primary or secondary mission focus. Charities identifying as primarily disaster responders are much more likely to belong to local emergency planning networks and slightly more likely to plan for emergencies. However, most charity leaders do not acknowledge climate change’s human origins and have not discussed climate change at the board level, with this position strongly related to their understanding of climate change’s potential impact on the communities they serve. And most have not taken some risk mitigation steps. We conclude that the Federal Emergency Management Authority’s national disaster response policy, which relies on the readiness of nonprofits to fill in service roles, does not account for the potential unpreparedness of nonprofits themselves. Policymakers should expand their “whole-community” (three-sector) approach to reinforce local network opportunities as forums for exchanging experience and knowledge, including an explicit linkage between the communication of the science of climate change and emergency planning

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