Disaster Risk Reduction in Southern Africa
Hot rhetoric—cold reality
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5802162 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alisa Holloway (University of Cape Town, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 29-38 |
| Publication date | 2003-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | African Security Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1024-6029 • E-ISSN: 2154-0128 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10246029.2003.9627568 |
| OpenAlex | W1589041884 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 1 |
Last year, Southern Africa was host to two contradictory events. The first, the World Summit on Sustainable Development, optimistically aimed to map forward a path to global sustainability. The second, the launching of a series of international humanitarian assistance appeals, aimed more fundamentally at averting the devastating consequences of regional famine. That these events, one promising to ensure our future collective security, and the other, a desperate plea to avert current human hardship and widespread suffering, should occur concurrently in the same region, underlines the many contradictions in prevailing development policy and practice-especially as they apply to the management of disaster risk-and particularly as these relate to Southern Africa. This article will reflect on the challenges of implementing disaster risk reduction in Southern Africa, a region not historically regarded as 'disaster-prone', with specific reference to Southern Africa's current humanitarian emergency. The paper will begin by reflecting the present status of humanitarian need in famine-affected countries and possible explanations for the severity of the impact. This will be followed by a reflection on the dilemmas and divisions that have shaped disaster mitigation efforts in Southern Africa. In this context, specific attention will be given to factors that have discouraged greater national ownership of disaster risk within Southern Africa, along with the challenges of bridging historic divisions between disaster reduction and development practice
Disaster risk reduction · Famine · Humanitarian aid · Summit · Disaster Management and Resilience
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Integrating Ubuntu
Local government, political decentralisation and resilience to natural hazard-associated disasters
Vulnerability interventions in the context of multiple stressors
What drives food insecurity in southern Africa? a meta-analysis of household economy studies
An assessment of riparian communities’ preparedness to flood risk
The Vernacular of Disaster
The Disaster Response Mobilization System
International humanitarian actors and governments in areas of conflict
| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,52 |
| Citation span | 2005 - 2025 (21) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |