Culture and disaster risk reduction
Lessons and opportunities
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5852155 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jessica Mercer (Oxfam, corresponding author), J C Gaillard (University of Auckland), Kate Donovan (0000-0002-7360-4556, Catholic Agency for Overseas Development), Rachel Shannon (0000-0003-4191-5410, University of Ulster), Bob Alexander, Simon Day (0000-0001-8310-8567, University College London), Julia Becker (0000-0001-9989-4232, GNS Science) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 74-95 |
| Publication date | 2012-01-31 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environmental Hazards (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1878-0059 • E-ISSN: 1747-7891 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17477891.2011.609876 |
| OpenAlex | W2049021530 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 43 |
| References cited | 59 |
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 disaster risk reduction? (b) How can we engage with different cultures? (c) How can local knowledge be accessed and utilized? (d) How can local and scientific knowledge be integrated for the benefit of disaster risk reduction? The questions are answered through drawing upon case study snapshots from Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, USA and the Maldives that explore geological-related hazard phenomena, including earthquakes, volcanoes and tsunamis, and their effects within communities. Challenges and ways forward for ensuring the integration of cultural considerations into risk reduction and putting research into practice and practice into research are identified
Disaster risk reduction · Disaster Management and Resilience · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies · Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
Value of traditional oral narratives in building climate-change resilience
Collective Trauma and the Social Construction of Meaning
Process for integrating local and indigenous knowledge with science for hydro-meteorological disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation in coastal and small island communities
Flood risk management by community stakeholders
Citizen science and the right to research
Enhancing flood network administration management in Nakhon Si Thammarat Province, Thailand
Integrating Indigenous perspectives and community-based disaster risk reduction
Why does community-based disaster risk reduction fail to learn from local knowledge? Experiences from Malawi
Disaster communications with resettled refugees
Understanding memory transmission in disaster risk reduction practices
“Moving or not?”
Livelihood recovery for sustainable development
The role of social identities for collective adaptation capacities– general considerations and lessons from Jakarta, Indonesia
Leveraging local knowledge to develop local forecasts
Interactions between disaster risk reduction and intangible culture among indigenous communities in Benguet, Philippines
Risk perception and safety culture
Resilience learning and indigenous knowledge of earthquake risk in Indonesia
How does private adaptation motivation to climate change vary across cultures? Evidence from a meta-analysis
Drought risk-reduction and gender dynamics in communal cattle farming in southern Zimbabwe
Framing resilience
The conditions of inclusion
Identifying critical factors affecting the livelihood recovery following disasters
Past-Forwarding Ancient Calamities. Pathways for Making Archaeology Relevant in Disaster Risk Reduction Research
Mitigasi dan Adaptasi Struktural Bahaya Banjir Berdasarkan Kearifan lokal Masyarakat Aceh Singkil
Earthquakes and Natural Hazards in the Pacific Islands
International Disaster Risk Reduction Strategies and Indigenous Peoples
Ethnic Groups Differences in Domestic Recovery after the Catastrophe
Facilitating Sustainable Disaster Risk Reduction in Indigenous Communities
Assembling Local Cyclone Knowledge in the Australian Tropics
Why is evacuation so difficult? Sociocultural aspects of landslide disaster in Ponorogo, Indonesia
Resettled refugee community perspectives to the Canterbury earthquakes
Lessons from disaster
Resilience in Talcahuano, Chile
Crisis translation
Earthquakes, Volcanoes and God
Disaster risk reduction for natural hazards
At the intersection of disaster risk and religion
Mapping cultural vulnerability in volcanic regions
Principles for the consideration of intersectionality in place‐based disaster risk governance in islands
Belonging and Transnational Refugee Settlement
Examining the physical and human dichotomy in geography
Multiscalar Narratives of a Disaster
Black people don't love nature
Culture and the Changing Environment
Risk and Blame
The Angry Earth
Participatory methods of incorporating scientific with traditional knowledge for volcanic hazard management on Ambae Island, Vanuatu
People's behaviour in the face of volcanic hazards
Climate and the Collapse of Maya Civilization
The value of indigenous knowledge in climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies in the African Sahel
Worlds Apart
Sociology Beyond Societies
Vulnerability, capacity and resilience
Risk and Culture
Social Consequences of the Mount Lamington Eruption 1
Use of traditional knowledge in emergency management for tsunami hazard
The potential for combining indigenous and western knowledge in reducing vulnerability to environmental hazards in small island developing states
Knowing sufficient and applying more
Nature‐society interactions in the pacific islands
Participatory rural appraisal (PRA)
Sociology beyond Societies
The evacuation of Niuafo’ ou, an outlier in the kingdom of Tonga∗
The Papuan Orokaiva Vs Mt. Lamington
The Bengkulu premonition
Doing social volcanology
Hybrid Geographies
Anthropological Studies in Hazardous Environments
Resilience of traditional societies in facing natural hazards
Social Vulnerability to Environmental Hazards
Interpretations of Calamity from the Viewpoint of Human Ecology
The Martyred City
Framework for integrating indigenous and scientific knowledge for disaster risk reduction
The Real and Imagined Role of Culture in Development
Anthropological Research on Hazards and Disasters
Local Knowledge in the Environment-Development Discourse
Orienting Dispositions in the Perception of Risk
Times of Plenty, Times of Less
| Unique citing works | 43 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,07 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2025 (14) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 42 |