Disaster Management Community Research Articles

CRISIS MITIGATION MECHANISM AND TRAINING NEED OF SUGARCANE GROWERS- AN EMPIRICAL STUDY

A study was conducted to find out the Crisis Mitigation Mechanisms and Training needs of Sugarcane growers in Southern Karnataka during 2022-23. Mandya and Mysore district of Karnataka were selected purposively for the study. Mandya and Maddur blocks in Mandya district and Nanjanagud and Narasipura blocks in Mysore district were selected randomly. Eight villages, two from each block and 120 sugarcane growers, 15 from each village, with minimum five years of experience in sugarcane cultivation were selected as respondents randomly. Blocks, villages and respondents are selected through multistage simple random sampling. Data were collected with structured interview schedule through physical interview method. Statistical tools like frequency, percentage, SD, CV, RBQ, equidistant method was used for data analysis. Food grains, fuel storage followed by fodder storage and relocating to safer places are usually adopted as mitigation measures. They are less aware about various crisis mitigation mechanism to be taken at individual level like contingency crop planning, crop insurance etc. 50 per cent of the sugarcane growers belongs to medium crisis mitigation mechanism adoption category. It was found that they were in need of trainings on IPM, INM, organic farming, entrepreneurship and community disaster management. Training about individual approaches like contingency crop plannings, crop insurance and community approaches of disaster for crisis management to be provided. 43.33 per cent of the sugarcane growers were in high need of training for crisis management. Price crisis was the major crisis faced by farmers followed by labour and finance crisis. Provision of strict law from government to stop delayed payment by factories and maintaining uniform price for sugarcane farmers to be introduced.

Peri-urban Community Resilience in Facing the Dynamics of Global Climate-change Impacts toward Sustainable Development

This study analyses the resilience of peri-urban communities in the face of increasingly complex and dynamic global climate change to environmental impact. This study aims to understand the characteristics of peri-urban societies, the factors that influence their resilience, and strategies needed to increase their resilience in the face of climate change. This study uses a qualitative approach with a case study method in Kebalen, Bekasi, and one peri-urban city in Indonesia. Data were collected through in-depth interviews, observations, and document analysis. The results showed that the diverse characteristics of peri-urban communities affect their resilience in the face of climate change. Factors such as resources, accessibility, and social support also affect the resilience levels of peri-urban societies. Strategies needed to increase the resilience of peri-urban communities include collaboration in community empowerment, education, and training in local resource management disasters as well as improving infrastructure and accessibility. This study contributes to the understanding of the role of peri-urban communities in addressing the impacts of global climate change. It produces recommendations for the government, private sector, and community disaster management to synergize and increase the resilience of peri-urban communities.

Disaster risk management of debris flow based on time-series contribution mechanism (CRMCD): Nonnegligible ecological vulnerable multi-ethnic communities

Disaster management often serves as the primary defense against ecological damage and threats to social well-being resulting from natural disasters. However, the quantitative research on unified disaster risk management capacity assessment has not been scrutinized. Based on the time series structure, this study proposes a novel framework and risk management contribution models for exploiting a community risk management capacity to debris flows (CRMCD) assessment system. A comprehensively improved method was utilized for indicator selection by combining R hierarchical clustering (RHC) and coefficient of variation methods (CV). Entropy-weighted grey correlation analysis (EGCA) and geographic information system (GIS) methods are employed to assign weights and visualize the disaster management capacity of research areas. Three risk management contribution models are constructed according to the criterion layers defined by CRMCD: prevention-oriented, emergency-oriented, and recovery-oriented. Furthermore, a questionnaire was designed by introducing multi-ethnic cultural scenarios to assess public risk awareness, avoidance behaviors, and management demands. A total of 3,060 survey samples were conducted among ethnic minority communities in Sichuan that issued debris flow disaster declarations in 2022. Social welfare and public satisfaction were examined to validate the applicability of the CRMCD assessment system and risk management contribution model. The results identified key indices contributing to enhancing CRMCD: The proportion of financial investment in disaster prevention and public security, Professional skills diversity of emergency responders, and Installed power capacity. The multinomial logistic regression analysis revealed public preference for the prevention-oriented type in the risk management contribution model, and interviewees demonstrated a more positive response regarding motivation and participation in disaster prevention under this model. Kruskal-Wallis H significance analysis highlighted that ethnic minorities and elderly populations exhibited lower levels of disaster knowledge reserves, avoidance awareness, and propensity to purchase disaster insurance. Unexpectedly, respondents with higher household income and education levels paid less attention to seeking assistance from professional community organizations. Disaster early warning emerged as a priority for respondents interested in strengthening community disaster management initiatives. Overall, this study outlines a systematic methodology to establish an objective index system and summarize management models, which provide breakthroughs in developing participatory disaster management frameworks and resilience communities.

Disaster Response and Management: The Integral Role of Rehabilitation.

With the increasing frequency of disasters and the significant upsurge of survivors with severe impairments and long-term disabling conditions, there is a greater focus on the importance of rehabilitation in disaster management. During disasters, rehabilitation services confront a greater load due to the influx of victims, management of persons with pre-existing disabilities and chronic conditions, and longer-term care continuum. Despite robust consensus amongst the international disaster response and management community for the rehabilitation-inclusive disaster management process, rehabilitation is still less prioritised. Evidence supports the early involvement of rehabilitation professionals in disaster response and management for minimising mortality and disability, and improving clinical outcomes and participation in disaster survivors. In the last two decades, there have been substantial developments in disaster response/management processes including the World Health Organization Emergency Medical Team (EMT) initiative, which provides a standardized structured plan to provide effective and coordinated care during disasters. However, rehabilitation-inclusive disaster management plans are yet to be developed and/or implemented in many disaster-prone countries. Strong leadership and effective action from national and international bodies are required to strengthen national rehabilitation capacity (services and skilled workforce) and empower international and local EMTs and health services for comprehensive disaster management in future calamities. This narrative review highlights the role of rehabilitation and current developments in disaster rehabilitation; challenges and key future perspectives in this area.

Constructing an adaptability evaluation framework for community-based disaster management using an earthquake event

A community's disaster resilience and response capabilities are highly related to citizens' participation in disaster prevention planning and management. Therefore, community-based disaster management (CBDM) systems should integrate citizen participation and community capital under the category of community resilience, which has been recognized as a key aspect of disaster management. Using an earthquake event as a case, this study proposes an adaptability evaluation framework for CBDM integrating community resilience and capital. Based on interviews with stakeholders and a choice experiment method, we estimate a resident preference model under the CBDM framework. This study also measures resident preference heterogeneity using demographic data and prevention attitudes and estimates the welfare effects of CBDM. Finally, we evaluate residents' willingness to participate in different CBDM scenarios in an earthquake event. The results confirm that residents prefer holding regular disaster prevention drills, the organization of cooperative drills with local governments, the provision of disaster prevention training, and the channeling of both non-government organizations and government resources in response to a disaster. Significantly, in terms of disaster prevention measures, the integrated community disaster management framework garnered the highest willingness to participate among all scenarios, followed by enhancing residents' adaptive ability and focusing on residents' awareness and perceptions. These findings provide valuable insights into the theoretical design and construction of CBDM systems for earthquake events and related policymaking.

The Passivity-Responsiveness Continuum in the disaster preparedness and mitigation process: A synthesized theory

The public's tendency to demonstrate passive and complacent attitudes towards imminent disaster hazards only portends individual- and community-level vulnerabilities. This paper explores disaster mitigation and response efforts through the Passivity-Responsiveness Continuum (PRC) model which was developed using the Walker and Avant's threefold steps in theory synthesis: specifying focal concepts, identifying related factors and relationships, and constructing an integrated model. An integrative review was conducted to explore concepts and nature and types of relationships relevant to the phenomena of disaster passivity and responsiveness. As a model, PRC proposes that passivity (and its habituality) corresponds to a negative, non-favorable state and outcome while responsiveness corresponds to a positive, ideal condition. The state in the continuum (i.e., passivity and responsiveness) is changeable (may progress or retrogress) depending on the individual's exposure to circumstantial factors (CF) which include ease of access to resources, self-efficacy, and socio-cultural/political climate, among others. Hence, to promote progressive change, guided disaster-responsive prompts (GDRP) must be facilitated and reinforced by expert actors and responders (i.e., nurses working in community disaster management) in a manner that is intensive, structured, trans-dimensional, and disaster-specific. To achieve the ideal state (i.e., disaster-resilient living), assertive actions must be supported, reinforced, and sustained otherwise the responsive state wanes, dwindles, and reverts to a previous state of passivity.

The policy landscape and challenges of disaster risk financing: navigating risk and uncertainty.

A more anticipatory, pre-agreed response is a shared goal of many in the disaster management and humanitarian communities. This paper considers the emerging policy landscape of disaster risk financing (DRF), which is taken here to include mechanisms that allow agencies to act in advance of disasters occurring, as well as those that aim to respond earlier to disasters which have already happened. What they both have in common is no longer waiting for needs to become apparent before responding; however, this creates a challenge for practitioners because of the potential for acting erroneously. This paper provides a more cohesive way of understanding approaches in this policy area through the shared challenge of decision-making under the condition of uncertainty. Drawing on expert interviews and science and technology studies theory, it sets out some recommendations on how practitioners can navigate risk and uncertainty better within DRF and in a more nuanced way.

The selective effect of lockdown experience on citizens' perspectives: A multilevel, multiple informant approach to personal and community resilience during COVID-19 pandemic.

In the face of the first wave of COVID‐19 contagion, citizens all over the world experienced concerns for their safety and health, as well as prolonged lockdowns – which brought about limitations but also unforeseen opportunities for personal growth. Broad variability in these psychological responses to such unprecedented experiences emerged. This study addresses this variability by investigating the role of personal and community resilience. Personal resilience, collective resilience, community disaster management ability, provided information by local authorities, and citizens' focus on COVID‐19‐related personal concerns and lockdown‐related opportunities for personal growth were detected through an online questionnaire. Multilevel modelling was run with data from 3,745 Italian citizens. The potential of personal resilience as a driver for individuals to overcome adverse situations with positive outcomes was confirmed. Differently, the components of community resilience showed more complex paths, highlighting the need to pay more attention to its role in the face of far‐reaching adverse events which hardly test individuals' as well as communities' adaptability and agency skills. The complexities linked to the multi‐component and system‐specific nature of resilience, as well as potential paths towards making the most out of citizens' and communities' ones, emerge. The theoretical and practical implications are discussed.

Predicting and Improving the Waterlogging Resilience of Urban Communities in China—A Case Study of Nanjing

In recent years, urban communities in China have been continuously affected by extreme weather and emergencies, among which the rainstorm and waterlogging disasters pose a great threat to infrastructure and personnel safety. Chinese governments issue a series of waterlogging prevention and control policies, but the waterlogging prevention and mitigation of urban communities still needs to be optimized. The concept of “resilience” has unique advantages in the field of community disaster management, and building resilient communities can effectively make up for the limitations of the traditional top-down disaster management. Therefore, this paper focuses on the pre-disaster prevention and control of waterlogging in urban communities of China, following the idea of “concept analysis–influencing factor identification–evaluation indicators selection–impact mechanism analysis–resilience simulation prediction–empirical research–disaster adaptation strategy formulation”. The structural equation model and BP neural network are used by investigating the existing anti-waterlogging capitals of the target community to predict the future waterlogging resilience. Based on this simulation prediction model, and combined with the incentive and restraint mechanisms, suggestions on corrective measures can be put forward before the occurrence of waterlogging.

Contemporary integrated community planning: mixed-age, sustainability and disaster-resilient approaches

In recent years, conventional concepts of social reform planning for sustainable, safe and disaster-resilient communities have continuously driven the thought and practice of community planning and management; furthermore, environmental safety has become the common foundation of these visionary community models. Additionally, low birth rates and aging populations have become common social problems in numerous developed countries. This study integrated the design and planning of sustainable, disaster-resilient and intergenerational collective communities to develop factors and models of an intergenerational community. Moreover, this study constructed evaluation indicators for intergenerational communities under a safety basis, which were used as the foundation for planning and designing strategies. The system of intergenerational disaster-resilient collective community planning indicators covers 5 dimensions and 26 indicators, which focuses primarily on the establishment of community safety mechanisms and physical and mental health care for residents, including intergenerational community interactivity, provision of education and employment opportunities, provision of health and medical services, along with environmental and ecological conservation and maintenance management. By reconstructing the communication and economic model of communities as a whole, establishing community disaster management awareness and mechanisms on this basis is essential to facilitate their progress toward sustainable development. Through this framework of indicators, we aim to provide communities with a reference for future transformations in response to societal shifts.

Constructing an Adaptability Evaluation Framework for Community Disaster Management from an Earthquake Event

Constructing an Adaptability Evaluation Framework for Community Disaster Management from an Earthquake Event

Socio-Cultural Approach on Disaster Risk Management of Sirnaresmi Customary Village, West Java

The Sirnaresmi indigenous people are one of the communities that still maintain their traditional culture to this day. In carrying out the rules and customs in the community, Sirnaresmi Village has its own institutional structure. There are several stakeholder institutions that support landslide risk reduction in Sirnaresmi Village. This study aims to determine the socio-cultural life and disaster risk management of the customary community in Sirnaresmi Village, West Java. The result showed that efforts to reduce the risk of landslides in Sirnaresmi Village have been carried out. However, the capacity in Sirnaresmi Village is still insufficient to reduce the risk of landslides. Some possible solutions are disaster risk reduction efforts by community organizing in disaster management through the formation of Disaster Management Community Groups (KMPB) and increasing public knowledge in reducing disaster risk together with experts from the Regional Disaster Management Agency of Sukabumi Regency. The other practical implications were also suggested such as by nurturing local traditions to help reduce disaster risk and involving local leadership roles in disaster risk reduction efforts.

The Role of Veterinarians in Mass Casualty Disasters: A Continuing Need for Integration to Disaster Management.

The need to prepare veterinarians to serve as part of the disaster medical response for mass casualty incidents has been recognized since at least the 1960's. The potential value of incorporating veterinarians for mass casualty disaster response has been noted by organizations throughout the world. Clinical veterinarians are highly trained medical professionals with access to equipment, medications, and treatment capabilities that can be leveraged in times of crisis. The ongoing threat of disasters with the current widespread healthcare access barriers requires the disaster management community to address the ethical constraints, training deficiencies and legal limitations for veterinary medical response to mass casualty disasters. An ethical imperative exists for veterinarians with translatable clinical skills to provide care to humans in the event of a mass casualty disaster with insufficient alternative traditional medical resources. Though this imperative exists, there is no established training mechanism to prepare veterinarians for the provision of emergency medical care to humans. In addition, the lack of clear guidance regarding what legal protections exist for voluntary responders persists as a barrier to rapid and effective response of veterinarians to mass casualty disasters. Measures need to be undertaken at all levels of government to address and remove the barriers. Failure to do so reduces potentially available medical resources available to an already strained medical system during mass casualty events.

A Methodology of Workshops to Explore Mutual Assistance Activities for Earthquake Disaster Mitigation.

To minimize the damage caused by large earthquakes, mutual assistance activities between residents and rescue victims (i.e., to support residents who cannot evacuate individually) are important. To enhance these activities, the technologies and methods for creating a Community Disaster Management Plan (CDMP), based on the quantitative evaluation of mutual assistance abilities, are required. However, the lack of a method for it is a key issue. This study aims to develop a methodology of workshops for making CDMPs by using the developed support tool by the authors to explore and promote mutual assistance activities. Through the demonstration and examination of a Community Disaster Management Plan on actual districts, the findings mentioned in this article were obtained. Moreover, the usability of this method is shown. In particular, this method is effective at revising CDMPs, and raising resident awareness on the importance of mutual assistance. The suggested method can also improve the lack of techniques involved in promoting mutual assistance.

Community resilience and resident's disaster preparedness: evidence from China's earthquake-stricken areas

With the increasing frequency of all kinds of natural disasters, strengthening the resilience and disaster prevention capacity of communities, and improving residents' preparedness for disasters, have gradually become effective means of dealing with disaster risks and improving residents' well-being. However, few studies have explored the correlation between community resilience and disaster preparedness. This study uses survey data from 327 households in four districts and counties affected by the Wenchuan earthquake and the Lushan County, Sichuan earthquake in Sichuan Province, China. The study deeply analyzed the characteristics of community resilience and residents' disaster preparedness. We constructed a Tobit regression model to explore the correlations between community resilience and residents' disaster preparedness. The results show that (1) the community resilience and disaster prevention capability reached the general level of disaster risk reduction paradigm, and the overall disaster preparedness of residents was moderate. (2) The higher the score of community connection care, the better the residents' knowledge and skills preparation and overall disaster preparedness. The higher the score of community resource endowment, the weaker the residents' emergency preparedness. The higher the score of community change potential, the stronger the residents' emergency preparedness. The higher the score of community disaster management, the stronger the residents' emergency preparedness, knowledge and skills preparation, and overall preparedness. The higher the community information communication score, the weaker the knowledge and skills preparation of residents. This study deepens the understanding of the relationship between community resilience and residents’ disaster preparedness. Furthermore, it provides information for the establishment of resilient disaster prevention systems in communities threatened by disasters and for the formulation of policies to improve residents' ability to avoid disasters.

On the connection between disaster mitigation and disaster preparedness: the case of Aceh province, Indonesia

PurposeThe authors investigate the role of community engagement in the connection between disaster mitigation and disaster preparedness. Using a vulnerability-to-hazard framework built by the European Union, the authors study the case of Aceh province, Indonesia, which was hit hard by Asian tsunami in 2004.Design/methodology/approachThe research design uses a single case study research. The authors study the case of Aceh province, Indonesia, by comparing improvements in disaster mitigation and disaster preparedness in a period longer than ten years beginning in 2004, right before the Asian tsunami that devastated the province. Aware that the connection between mitigation and preparedness is a broad research topic, the authors focus on the domain of pre-disaster evacuation.FindingsThe authors find that Aceh province has made substantial improvements in healthcare facilities and road quality (mitigation) as well as early alert systems and evacuation plans (preparedness). Socio-economic indicators of the community have improved substantially as well. However, there is a lack of safe sheltering areas as well as poor road signaling maintenance, which threatens the effectiveness of infrastructural improvements. The authors propose that community engagement would connect disaster mitigation and disaster preparedness. The connecting element is community-based maintenance of critical infrastructure such as road signals, which the government could facilitate by leveraging on operational transparency.Research limitations/implicationsThe findings open avenues for future research on the actionable engagement of communities in disaster mitigation and disaster preparedness.Originality/valueThis paper contributes to three areas of humanitarian logistics research: disaster management cycle (DMC), pre-disaster evacuations and community engagement in disaster management.

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Disaster Vulnerability Assessment in Parshuram Municipality, Dadeldhura, Nepal

This study explores the disaster vulnerability of adjoining community of Mahakali River, Parshuram municipality, Dadeldhura. A questionnaire was used to collect information on various physical, social, economic, and environmental vulnerability. Key informant interview was conducted with ward chairpersons and community disaster management committee members. Likewise, three focus group discussions were conducted with the purpose of drawing insight on different factors of disaster vulnerability in the community. Moreover, five community disaster risk management plans were reviewed to understand the types of vulnerability of community. It has been found that weak geological structure and week physical infrastructure-house, bridge, buildings are the physical vulnerability. Likewise, lack of awareness on disaster preparedness, non-implementation of building code and traditional practice are the social vulnerability. Similarly, poverty, seasonal migration, lack of irrigation and land, low quality of soil are the economic vulnerability. Heavy rainfall, forest fire, lack of conservation of water source, encroachment of wildlife inhabitants and deforestation are factors to environmental vulnerability of study area. It is found that there are various vulnerability factors that need to be minimized through the capacity enhancement.

Studies on the Future Challenges to Community Disaster Management Plan in Tokyo on the Lessons from the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake

Studies on the Future Challenges to Community Disaster Management Plan in Tokyo on the Lessons from the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake

東日本大震災の教訓から学ぶ自助・共助のまちづくり―小規模企業BCPの地域貢献と「地区防災計画」―

東日本大震災の教訓から学ぶ自助・共助のまちづくり―小規模企業BCPの地域貢献と「地区防災計画」―