Risk and Resilience in the coastal Caribbean

加勒比沿海地区的风险和弹性

• 批准号: AH/R00398X/1
• 负责人: Henrice Altink
• 金额: $ 5.39万
• 依托单位: University of York
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2018 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FR00398X%2F1
• 关键词: Risk; Resilience; coastal; Caribbean

Resilience is central to the current development agenda and underpins approaches to disaster risk reduction. Fundamentally, resilience is about the ability of communities to predict, resist and absorb the impact of environmental hazards, so that they can continue to function as successful societies. The frequency and severity of environmental hazards, such as floods and droughts, are increasing in many LMICs, where environmental degradation (like water and soil pollution) can make recovery from such impacts more prolonged, and affect particularly the most vulnerable in society, such as the poor, the old or marginalised ethnic groups, who lack the social, economic and political capital that underpins resilience. It is particularly important, therefore, to understand how to build resilience in and for poorer communities to ensure that they are less vulnerable to environmental risks in the future. One important factor that influences a community's response to environmental risk is the way it has developed over time. Equally, a community's cultural traditions shape how they understand and frame resilience and any strategies they adopt to become more resilient. However, most research on resilience focusses on the now and the future and fails to take account of the importance of past events and responses and a community's cultural traditions and resources. For this reason, this network will bring together arts and humanities scholars with environmental, physical and social scientists, who work on the resilience of socio-ecological systems (SESs). It builds on two NERC/AHRC/ESRC (GCRF)-funded 'Building Resilience' projects, which have pioneered innovative, cross-disciplinary approaches to explore how environmental histories, governance and culture have interacted in making Caribbean coastal environments and their communities more or less resilient in the face of man-made and natural disasters. The network will focus on the coastal Caribbean, an area experiencing numerous and increasing environmental risks, including rising sea levels and more and fiercer tropical storms that affect especially the most vulnerable in society. The first event hosted by the network will bring together a multi-disciplinary group of UK and locally-based scholars, who work on the coastal Caribbean and/or environmental resilience, with external stakeholders from within the region to debate the concept resilience from different disciplinary angles; discuss the key challenges in developing environmental resilience in coastal Caribbean communities; and assess cross-disciplinary approaches that will allow for a comprehensive study of these challenges. They will single out three main challenges, which small interdisciplinary teams led by an external stakeholder will develop into proposals for either further study or specific development initiatives that will be discussed at a second event hosted in the region and attended not just by the teams but also interested local and regional agencies and organisations and researchers. Following feedback received at this event, the proposals will be written up and posted on the network's website and a policy brief highlighting the insights that arts and humanities can bring to an understanding of resilience will be made freely-accessible on the website of the Overseas Development Institute(ODI), the UK's leading think tank on international development. In addition, the experiences of working in a cross-disciplinary and cross-sectoral network to develop effective proposals to enhance environmental resilience will be shared with other academics and external stakeholders through panels and roundtables at academic conferences and a freely-accessible paper on the History&Policy website.

复原力是当前发展议程的核心，是减少灾害风险的方法的基础。从根本上说，复原力是关于社区预测、抵抗和吸收环境危害的影响的能力，以便它们能够继续作为成功的社会发挥作用。在许多小岛屿发展中国家，洪水和干旱等环境危害的频率和严重程度正在增加，环境退化(如水和土壤污染)可能使从这种影响中恢复的时间更长，并特别影响到社会中最脆弱的群体，如穷人、老年人或被边缘化的族裔群体，他们缺乏支撑复原力的社会、经济和政治资本。因此，了解如何在较贫穷社区和较贫穷社区建立复原力，以确保它们在未来不那么容易受到环境风险的影响，这一点尤为重要。影响社区对环境风险的反应的一个重要因素是它随着时间的推移而发展的方式。同样，一个社区的文化传统塑造了他们对韧性的理解和框架，以及他们为变得更具韧性而采取的任何战略。然而，大多数关于复原力的研究集中在现在和未来，而没有考虑到过去事件和反应以及社区的文化传统和资源的重要性。出于这个原因，这个网络将把艺术和人文学者与环境、物理和社会科学家聚集在一起，他们致力于社会生态系统的复原力(SESS)。它建立在两个由NERC/AHRC/ESRC(GCRF)资助的“建设复原力”项目的基础上，这两个项目开创了创新的跨学科方法，探索环境历史、治理和文化如何相互作用，使加勒比沿海环境及其社区在面对人为和自然灾害时具有或多或少的复原力。该网络将把重点放在加勒比沿海地区，该地区面临着众多且日益严重的环境风险，包括海平面上升和更多、更猛烈的热带风暴，这些风暴尤其影响到社会中最脆弱的群体。该网络主办的第一次活动将汇集研究加勒比沿海和(或)环境复原力的英国和当地学者组成的多学科小组，与该区域内的外部利益攸关方从不同学科角度辩论复原力的概念；讨论在发展加勒比沿海社区环境复原力方面的主要挑战；以及评估能够对这些挑战进行全面研究的跨学科方法。他们将挑选出三个主要挑战，由外部利益攸关方领导的小型跨学科团队将发展为进一步研究或具体发展倡议的建议，这些建议将在该地区主办的第二次活动上讨论，不仅团队参加，感兴趣的当地和区域机构、组织和研究人员也将参加。根据在这次活动中收到的反馈，这些建议将被撰写并发布在该网络的网站上，一份强调艺术和人文可以为理解韧性带来的见解的政策简报将在英国领先的国际发展智库海外发展研究所(ODI)的网站上免费提供。此外，将通过学术会议上的小组讨论和圆桌会议以及历史与政策网站上的免费文件，与其他学者和外部利益攸关方分享在跨学科和跨部门网络中制定有效建议以提高环境复原力的经验。

项目成果

The Politics of Infrastructure in Inner-City Communities in Kingston, Jamaica, From 1962 to 2020

1962 年至 2020 年牙买加金斯顿内城社区基础设施的政治

• DOI: 10.1177/00961442211068031
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Journal of Urban History
• 影响因子: 0.4
• 作者: Altink H

The value of secondary use of data generated by non-governmental organisations for disaster risk management research: Evidence from the Caribbean

非政府组织生成的数据二次利用用于灾害风险管理研究的价值：来自加勒比地区的证据

• DOI: 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2021.102114
• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
• 影响因子: 5
• 作者: Omukuti J

Caribbean studies needs the humanities

加勒比研究需要人文学科

• 作者: Henrice Altink