Practitioner perspectives of disaster resilience in international development
Practitioner perspectives of disaster resilience in international development
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DOI：
10.1016/j.ijdrr.2019.101355
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发表时间：
2020-01-01
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5
通讯作者：
Hanger-Kopp, Susanne
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作者：
Keating, Adriana;Hanger-Kopp, Susanne
抗灾能力现在是国际发展部门无数科学和政策出版物和倡议的主题，但对负责实施抗灾能力的从业人员的观点和经验了解甚少，如果抗灾能力将有助于遏制日益增加的灾害风险，就必须在讨论中扩大从业人员的专家见解、现实和需求。通过对发展中国家从事抗灾工作的国际非政府组织工作人员的深入采访，我们试图了解这一概念是如何被理解和在实践中使用的。我们比较从业者的观点，以科学和政策为导向的目标，和批评，在灾害和发展空间的恢复力。我们发现，从业者认为弹性范式正在推动一个真正的转变，以更好的编程。与此同时，人们担心，复原力是一个模糊的时髦词，会强化现状，这一点不能否认。抗灾能力作为科学-实践接口中的一个边界对象是否有用，以及抗灾能力能否成功实现其目标，取决于科学家、决策者和捐助者是否更积极地吸收实践者的见解和经验。我们确定了一些途径，这种互动，有很高的显着性的从业者。
Disaster resilience is now the subject of countless scientific and policy publications and initiatives within the international development sector, yet little insight is available on the perspectives and experiences of the practitioners tasked with implementing it. If disaster resilience is going to contribute to arresting growing disaster risk, it is essential that the expert insight, realities and needs of practitioners are amplified in the discourse. Through in-depth interviews with INGO staff working on disaster resilience across the developing world, we seek to understand how the concept is being understood and used in practice. We compare practitioner perspectives to scientific and policy-oriented goals for, and critiques of, resilience in the disaster and development space. We find that practitioners perceive the resilience paradigm to be driving a genuine shift towards better programming. At the same time, the concern that resilience is a vague buzzword which reinforces the status quo cannot be discredited. The usefulness of resilience as a boundary object within the science-practice interface, and the success of resilience in achieving its goals, is dependent upon scientists, policy-makers, and donors more actively engaging with the insights and experience of practitioners. We identify a number of avenues for this interaction that have high salience for practitioners.