Reflections: Advancing development-based interpretations and interventions in disaster risk: Some conceptual and contextual stumbling blocks
Reflections: Advancing development-based interpretations and interventions in disaster risk: Some conceptual and contextual stumbling blocks
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反思:推进基于发展的灾害风险解释和干预措施:一些概念和背景障碍
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10.1080/17477891.2012.698845
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2012
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A. Lavell
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A. Lavell
Since joining the disaster and disaster risk research community some 25 years ago, coloured and tinged by the experience of my earlier specialization in urban and regional, and development problems in general, I, as many others, have been convinced that disaster risk and disaster are essentially, but not exclusively, the result of unbalanced or skewed development processes (Hagman, 1984; Wijkman and Timberlake, 1988; Blaikie et al., 1994; UNISDR, 2011). This is obviously applicable as a tenet in developing countries and also in many cases of disaster in developed countries. A corollary of this tenet is that the manageable aspects of risk and disaster must be dealt with in a social, development and development planning framework (Wisner et al., 2011, Chapter 51). The increased emphasis in research, writing and debate to the skewed development-disaster risk nexus has inspired and paralleled the development of notions that converge in the central idea of the ‘social construction of disaster risk’ (Lavell, 2003; Wisner et al., 2004; UNISDR, 2009 and 2011). This has amplified the critique of the so-called ‘physicalist’ and technocratic interpretations of disaster which Hewitt so convincingly debunked in his classic 1983 writing on ‘Interpretations of Calamity in a Technocratic Age’ (Hewitt, 1983, Chapter 1). It also further promoted a more critical, social interpretation of risk and disaster. Such an approach had been kick started with the work of development researchers and authors such as Ball (1975), Baird et al. (1975), O’Keefe et al. (1976), Wisner et al. (1976, 1977) and Davis (1978), writing from the early to late 1970s, work that was subsequently followed up on by authors such as Cuny (1983), Hagman (1984), Maskrey and Romero (1985), Maskrey (1989), Wijkman and Timberlake (1988), Anderson and Woodrow (1989) and Wilches-Chaux (1989) in the 1980s. The limited number of publications and social science, development-based research undertaken in the 1970s and 1980s led to an opening of the sluice gates of reflection and writing on the topic post 1990, when the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (IDNDR) was promoted by the UN. The IDNDR, whose inspiration can be found predominantly in natural and applied science concerns, gave rise to fears among many social researchers that hard science and technocratic approaches would dominate the future. While this concern led to an increase in social science research and debate in already established university departments or faculties in the ‘North’, in ‘Southern’ continents, where little research and fewer research centres existed, it led to the creation of networks of the as yet dispersed and limited number of socially motivated researchers and practitioners, in order to promote discussion and the advance of a social construction of risk approach. The creation of the Latin American Network for the Social Study of Disaster Prevention – LA RED – in 1992, and
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2009
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Collins Andrew E.
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Collins Andrew E.