Midst Of Disaster Research Articles

Openings after the Last Sky

Openings after the Last Sky

Inovasi Dinas Kelautan dan Perikanan Kabupaten Majene dalam Pemulihan dan Peningkatan Perekonomian Rakyat (Survivalitas Nelayan di Tengah Bencana)

The earthquake that occurred in West Sulawesi on January 15 2021 centered 7 km northeast of Majene certainly had an impact on the Majene community, including parts of the Mamuju area and some of the affected Mamasa. Apart from natural disasters, the existence of the Covid 19 virus as a non-natural disaster has had an impact on the people's economy. The research method used in this study is descriptive qualitative using interviews and direct observation at the Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Office of Majene Regency. Majene, which has a coastline of ± 125 km2, makes its people work a lot as fishermen, but in the midst of the disasters (both natural and non-natural) that occur, of course, it has an impact on the people's economy so that it forces local governments, especially the Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Service to innovate so that people can survive in the midst of disaster that befell. This innovation starts with recousing funds/budgets, increasing the yield of fish ponds, working with the private sector in increasing the productivity of skipjack tuna.

The Ark and Other Bubbles: Jewish Philosophy and Surviving the Disaster

The story of Noah is the story of a near-total biocide. And yet, in popular imagination, it appears as more of a floating petting zoo, a charming menagerie that follows the far more serious Edenic storylines of Genesis 1–5. In this paper, the ark, and midrash it inspired, acts as a guide for a set of speculations and arguments about the role Jewish philosophy might play during the present ecological disaster. These speculations are guided by the following claim: Jewish philosophy best responds to ecological crises when it does not attempt to provide an ecological ethics “out of the sources of Judaism”—making expansive normative and metaphysical claims—but instead explores enclosures and spaces; when it thinks about our relation to disasters, rather than trying to prevent or solve them. In other words, there is an element of Jewish thought which attempts to think enclosures and protect small but important things in the midst of disasters, and it is this I wish to highlight. My goal is to demonstrate that this kind of thinking presents viable possibilities for ecological thought. Specifically, I will argue that Mara Benjamin’s work gives us an indication of where such philosophy can go and how it might get there.

Letting Go of Familiar Narratives as Tragic Optimism in the Era of COVID-19

The ongoing trauma of COVID-19 will no doubt mark entire generations in ways inherent in an unmanaged global pandemic. The question that I ask is why this ongoing trauma seems so particularly profound and so uniquely shattering, and whether there is anything that we could do now, while still in the midst of disaster, to begin the process of social and moral repair? I will begin by considering the trauma of isolation with unknown time-horizons, and argue that it not only damages our experiences as social selves, but its languages of overwhelming grief rob us of hope of self-restoration. Second, I will examine some reasons for the “why us”-type of trauma experienced by so many in the Global North, and suggest that such laments are predicated on the misalignment among our socio-historical awareness, disaster-imagination, and our sense of ourselves as uniquely unfortunate. Finally, relying in part on Viktor Frankl’s notion of “tragic optimism,” I conclude by considering how we may begin to reconsider our traumas as not just endings of what is, but beginnings of what still might be —as repair without a master plan.

Kindness in the Midst of Disaster: A Resident's Reflection on COVID-19 Deployment.

To the Editor: As a pediatrics resident, I am comfortable treating infants in respiratory distress. As a psychiatry resident, I am comfortable treating acutely psychotic adults. Treating adults in heart failure, however, is quite far outside of my comfort zone. Yet this is what I found myself doing during our hospital’s surge, when increasing numbers of COVID-19 patients were admitted and additional internal medicine residents were needed to staff the intensive care units. Medicine is filled with hierarchy, divisiveness, and assumptions among and about physicians of different levels of training and physicians of different specialties. Through my time as a resident, I have experienced my fair share of condescension from consultants, disagreements with nurses, and harsh critiques from attendings. Before my COVID-19 “deployment,” I prepared myself to return to these seemingly unavoidable consequences of being an “intern.” However, my week as an intern was filled with words and gestures of encouragement and support, prompting me to wonder why we health care workers have tolerated our malignant system for so long. Despite my lack of knowledge about heart failure treatment, our team still functioned as a cohesive unit. We acknowledged that each of us held different levels of training and skill sets, which fostered open communication. During rounds, we were able to view the same patient through multiple lenses, leading to more well-rounded discussion than I have experienced in other settings. Even though we had fewer formal teaching opportunities, we were able to learn from each other’s practical knowledge and skills, and these lessons will stick with me much longer than many of the morning reports I have attended. We capitalized on each individual’s strengths, which proved extremely valuable for patient care during this unprecedented time. I expected frustration from the staff, given their years of experience, as they fielded my numerous questions; however, they greeted me with overwhelming kindness. I found myself with a renewed sense of gratitude for all of the hospital employees working alongside me, each with their own set of wisdom and clinical skills. We all felt the anxiety of being exposed to the virus, the discomfort of wearing an N95 mask, and the fatigue of working long hours. The shared trauma we were experiencing was the common thread motivating us not to wear each other down, as has happened all too often in the past, but to lift each other up. Isn’t this the way health care should be? Acknowledgments: The author would like to thank Erin Baroni, MD, supportive leader of the team described in this letter.

Finding renewal in the midst of disaster: The case of the deepwater horizon oil spill

In 2010, the United States experienced the worst environmental disaster in its history. An explosion on a BP oilrig located in the Gulf of Mexico triggered the crisis. As a result, the United States coast guard and BP were charged with crisis communication in its response to the crisis. This essay provides an unprecedented examination and analysis of the communication experiences of public information officers who worked in the unified command center in Houma, Louisiana during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill response. The authors use the discourse of renewal theory to understand the communication practices and choices of the public information officers. Then, using the renewal framework, the authors present three implications for improving crisis communication research and practice.

Tweeting in the midst of disaster: A comparative case study of journalists’ practices following four crises

This comparative case study examines how local journalists used Twitter as a crisis communication tool during four emergency situations in the United States. The public’s retweeting and liking patterns also identified messages that resonated with them. A content analysis found that although local journalists used objective reporting most frequently across all crises, there were variances in Twitter practices of journalists covering the two human-made crises. The two natural disasters showed more similarities. These findings can help develop best-practices strategies for journalists as they cover different types of crises.

What disasters can reveal about techno-medical birth: Japanese women’s stories of childbirth during the 11 March, 2011 earthquake

Social researchers of childbirth have argued that techno-medical routines of managing childbirth risk are underpinned by worst case scenarios involving disastrous deliveries, with catastrophic consequences for maternal and neonatal health and life. This article looks into childbirth stories that ended safely amidst serious ruptures in techno-medical surveillance. We draw on the childbirth stories of women who gave birth during the 11 March 2011 disasters recorded by the first author in February 2016 and on an array of childbirth stories published in a journalistic book in 2012. The stories reveal the navigations of women and care providers between two different types of risks: risks associated with birth in the techno-medicalised model of care and risks associated with earthquakes. Underlying the safety management imperatives of each are divergent space and time lines. Significantly, the techno-medical surveillance of risk associated with childbirth proved to be secondary to the earthquake risk. Rather than high technologies, it was low-tech necessities and human care that proved crucial for the management of safe births. Though women interpreted the safe conclusion of their birth as miracle, their stories suggest that childbirth, especially when attended by skilled birth attendants, can take place relatively safely, even in the direst of conditions. Accounts of childbirth in the midst of disasters offer evidence and important insights in developing a critique of technological birth in the social scientific and midwifery literature.

Après le deluge: the UK winter storms of 2013–14

Après le deluge: the <scp>UK</scp> winter storms of 2013–14

We stop for no storm: coping with an environmental disaster and public health research.

Coping with natural disasters is part of the public nurses' role, and the public health nursing (PHN) researcher is doubly challenged with continuing to conduct community-based research in the midst of the disaster. The PHN may provide service along with attempting to continue the research. The challenges faced by public/community health nurse researchers as a result of hurricane Ike are discussed to provide lessons for other public/community health researchers who may be affected by natural disasters in the future. It is important to consider challenges for recruitment and retention of research subjects after a disaster, impact of natural disasters on ongoing research, and opportunities for research to be found in coping with natural disasters. A community-based study that was in progress at the time of hurricane Ike will be used as an example for coping with a natural disaster. We will present "lessons learned" in the hope of helping researchers consider what can go wrong with research studies in the midst of natural disasters and how to proactively plan for keeping research reliable and valid when natural disasters occur. We will also discuss the opportunities for collaborations between researchers and the community following any disaster.

Privilege and Disaster: Toward a Jewish Feminist Ethics of Climate Silence and Environmental Unknowing

����� ��� Given the unprecedented scope and stakes of contemporary environmental crisis, ethicists have raised critical questions about whether traditional religious texts can speak in a meaningful way to climate change and other environmental risks in the anthropocene. Building on the ethical urgency of the environmental justice movement, this essay offers a feminist reading of Jewish narratives from the Babylonian Talmud that centers attention on issues of power, privilege, and social inequality in the midst of disaster. Talmudic tales of the destruction of Jerusalem critique the moral oblivion of wealthy residents who failed to act in response to crisis. Articulating a Jewish feminist reconstituative ethics, the author uses these tales to trace the ethical costs of epistemologies of ignorance—the complex strategies and social processes through which privileged communities cultivate ignorance of environmental suffering, maintain social distance from environmental risk, and disown moral culpability for environmental injustice.

"There Is a Lot That I Want to Do": Reflections on the Relief Efforts in Haiti

In October 2010, Harvard Educational Review editor Raygine DiAquoi interviewed Maryse Desgrottes, the mother of a close friend and a visible presence in the relief efforts in Petit Goave, Haiti. Desgrottes, a former physician's assistant turned educator and school superintendent, shares the story of her involvement in Haiti's relief efforts since the January 12, 2010, earthquake. Her story takes us from the initial terror and trauma of the first tremors to the present condition of the Haitian people. In her role as founder of the Henri Gerard Desgranges Foundation, which provides education and medical care to the town's people, Desgrottes reflects on the importance of education in the midst of disaster and the role that her school has played in the lives of Petit Goave's children and families. She also discusses the importance of partnerships with foreign organizations and the delicate balance between helping and hurting after a disaster. Desgrottes travels to Haiti every few months to monitor the rebuilding of the École Village Lucina. Currently, this school serves two hundred children, including a number of students who were orphaned by the earthquake. As the final touches are added to the new school building, Desgrottes looks ahead to the future of the students. Her story reveals themes of the importance of culture, sovereignty,and strength in the face of disaster.

Building a Sustainable Future on the Grounds of a Rediscovered Identity

For several weeks in January 2010, the world witnessed one of the most extraordinary demonstrations of courage, dignity, and unity by a people ranked as the poorest and most politically unstable in the Western Hemisphere. The Haitian people showed the world how far it could go in its determination to survive against all odds—a resilience that seems embedded in the Haitian culture and way of thinking. So why hasn’t that resilience, that common front the Haitian people present in the face of adversity, played its part in helping Haiti grow as a nation? How could a people who, in the midst of disaster, changed the world’s perception of its own humanity, apparently be unable to take charge of its own destiny, to build on its accomplishments, and secure its collective well-being? Having learned to manage unlikely alliances in order to secure their own collective freedom, how could Haitians be so devoid of a national conscience, the very motor of nation-building? The answer to this riddle seems to lie in Haiti’s past, and in the way the selective acceptance or rejection of its history has, over the years, shaped the mentality of its people.

水害常習地域の空間認識―大垣市の社会科副読本，ハザードマップ，手描き地図に着目して―

The purpose of this paper is to clarify the spatial knowledge of people through their spatial cognition in the midst of disasters. Under the ‘New Law of Flood Prevention’, amended in 2001, all local governments ought to draw up hazard maps and distribute them to their inhabitants. However, these maps are not the only method for conveying spatial cognition of disasters to the inhabitants.

Threat, Fear, and Altruism in the Midst of Disaster

Threat, Fear, and Altruism in the Midst of Disaster

Critical Concepts for Children in Disasters Identified by Hands-on Professionals: Summary of Issues Demanding Solutions Before the Next One

This supplement contains many hands-on experiences of pediatricians and others who cared for children during the Hurricane Katrina disaster. They have all offered significant insightful suggestions to help planners better prepare for care of children during the next disaster. This summary focuses on a few of the key lessons learned. All too often, planners assume that any hospital and any licensed health care provider can care for the full range of pediatric needs, including in times of crisis. Even for those who do recognize that seriously ill or injured children need to be cared for by pediatricians and pediatric subspecialists, it is sometimes assumed that existing hospitals are, in fact, sufficiently staffed and equipped to handle unlimited numbers of such cases. Few planners recognize the limited supply of pediatric hospital beds in their area and, therefore, do not prepare before a disaster for the potential transfer of children to distant facilities as needed, even if it requires consideration of out-of-state hospitals. More study is required to determine when and how adult-oriented providers and facilities can, in fact, care for children. Special protocols and understandings for the care of children in the midst of disasters need to be refined. Surge capacity is exceeded when the number of children requiring inpatient care exceeds the number of beds, staff, and equipment available. Obviously, with Katrina, all of the pediatric beds in Louisiana were overwhelmed, demonstrating the need to plan for care (including evacuation) of existing pediatric inpatients as well as new patients requiring admission within an impacted area. Disaster plans for children should include regional capacity and … Address correspondence to Carden Johnston, MD, FAAP, FRCP, Department of Pediatrics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1600 7th Ave S, Birmingham, AL 35233. E-mail: cjohnston{at}aap.org