Bridging gaps between disaster risk reduction and drowning prevention
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22029094 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Loic Le Dé (0000-0001-5271-0416, Auckland University of Technology, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 106 |
| Pages | 104445 |
| Publication date | 2024-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2212-4209 |
| Publisher | Elsevier BV (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2024.104445 |
| OpenAlex | W4393540977 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 58 |
Drowning is a form of silent and neglected disaster. Hundreds of thousands die every year from drowning, with cumulated fatalities surpassing that of large-scale disasters. However, research on drowning is largely absent from disaster studies and global and national disaster risk reduction policy frameworks rarely mention drowning risk and the related strategies for strengthening water safety. Drowning is mainly framed as a public health issue being studied predominantly by scholars from injury prevention, public health, and medicine. This paper argues that both disaster studies and disaster risk reduction policies have a critical role to play in progressing drowning prevention. It reviews the existing drowning literature and highlights trends, challenges, and opportunities to bridge gaps in knowledge, policy, and practice for reducing drowning risk. The article highlights the strong conceptual underpinnings that characterize both the disaster risk and drowning fields, the need for data sharing, the potential for community-approaches to drowning risk reduction, and ultimately recommends a more systematic integration of drowning in disaster risk reduction initiatives. The paper ends by underlining some of the barriers and requirements to foster collaboration between the disaster risk domains and drowning prevention
Business · Computer security · Disaster risk reduction · Environmental health · Environmental planning · Forensic engineering · Geography · Injury prevention · Medical emergency · Occupational safety and health · Poison control · Political science · Public health · Risk assessment · Risk management · Suicide prevention · Computer Science · Engineering · Flood Risk Assessment and Management · Human Factors and Ergonomics · Injury Epidemiology and Prevention · Medicine · Nursing · Traffic and Road Safety · Finance
A Dilemma of Language
Experiences, beliefs, and attitudes of lifeguards from Australia and the United Kingdom toward lifeguard involvement in flood mitigation and response
Participation as a requirement
Drowning ‘Truths’
Vulnerability, capacity and resilience
Preventing Child Drowning in the Philippines
Descriptive Epidemiology of Rescue-Related Fatal Drowning in Turkey
Mapping Trends in Drowning Research
The Visible Behaviour of Drowning Persons
Impact of a surfer rescue training program in Australia and New Zealand
Exploring the burden of fatal drowning and data characteristics in three high income countries
Emergent phenomena and the sociology of disaster
Revisiting community-based disaster risk management
The unexplored role of surfers in drowning prevention
Lessons from flood early warning systems
Disaster gold rushes, sophisms and academic neocolonialism
Geographies of resilience
An Analysis of the Causes and Circumstances of Flood Disaster Deaths
The Bangladesh Cyclone of 1991
Disaster studies inside out
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2025 (2) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |