Chmutina, Ksenia von Meding, Jason Sandoval, Vicente Boyland, Michael Forino, Giuseppe Cheek, Wesley Williams, Darien Alexander Gonzalez-Muzzio, Claudia Tomassi, Isabella Páez, Holmes
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International Journal of Disaster Risk Science
The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015−2030’s (SFDRR) framing moved away from disaster risk as a natural phenomenon to the examination of the inequality and injustice at the root of human vulnerability to hazards and disasters. Yet, its achievements have not seriously challenged the long-established capitalist systems of oppression t...
Bean, Hamilton Cruz, Ana Maria Shimizu, Mika Stephens, Keri K. McGlone, Matthew Strover, Sharon
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International Journal of Disaster Risk Science
A U.S.-Japan expert workshop on mobile alert and warning was held online 8–10 September 2021. Funded by the Japan Foundation’s Center for Global Partnership (CGP) and responding to the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030, the workshop compared U.S. and Japanese mobile alert and warning contexts, systems, policies, and messages to...
Alexander, David E.
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International Journal of Disaster Risk Science
Disaster science and scholarship are forever expanding and there are increasing calls to base disaster risk reduction policies on the evidence produced by such work. Using examples and argument, this opinion piece examines the nature of evidence. It defines evidence-based practice and considers how it has developed and become important to disaster ...
Sultan, Mohammed Ali Salem Khorram-Manesh, Amir Carlström, Eric Berlin, Johan Sørensen, Jarle Løwe
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International Journal of Disaster Risk Science
This study measured the impact of virtual three-level collaboration (3LC) exercises on participants’ perceived levels of collaboration, learning, and utility (CLU) at hospitals in the southern region of Saudi Arabia. Our 3LC exercise is a tabletop training tool used to facilitate disaster education and document CLU. This model enables the practitio...
Dube, Ernest Wedawatta, Gayan Ginige, Kanchana
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International Journal of Disaster Risk Science
This study evaluated the build-back-better considerations in post-disaster recovery, following the devastation of Chipinge and Chimanimani communities by Cyclone Idai-induced floods in 2019. Conducted in 2020, the study assessed the impact of Cyclone Idai-induced floods on communities in Chipinge and Chimanimani Districts of Zimbabwe; evaluated the...
Dewa, Ozius Makoka, Donald Ayo-Yusuf, Olalekan A.
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International Journal of Disaster Risk Science
Floods are among the most frequently occurring natural hazards in Malawi, often with public health implications. This mixed methods study assessed the capacity for and implementation status of the disaster risk management (DRM) strategy for the health sector in Malawi, using flooding in the Nsanje District as a case. Data were collected using desk ...
Sun, Yelin Liu, Tian Ye, Tao Shi, Peijun
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International Journal of Disaster Risk Science
More than a year after its appearance and still rampant around the world, the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted tragically how poorly the world is prepared to handle systemic risks in an increasingly hyper-connected global social-ecological system. The absence or clear inadequacy of global governance arrangements and mechanisms is painfully distinc...
Wu, Haorui Perez-Lugo, Marla Garcia, Cecilio Ortiz Crespo, Frances Gonzalez Castillo, Adriana
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International Journal of Disaster Risk Science
The study of disaster-specific leadership of female university students has been largely neglected, especially during on-campus emergency eviction and evacuation. Based on the COVID-19-triggered, on-campus evictions across Canada and the United States, this cross-national partnership examined the out-of-province/state and international female unive...
Glantz, Michael H. Pierce, Gregory E.
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International Journal of Disaster Risk Science
Current discussions of the social phenomenon of “vaccine hesitancy” with regard to Covid-19 provide an opportunity to use hesitancy as a means to shift thinking about untimely and delayed responses to forecasts of hydrometeorological hazards. Hesitancy, that is, provides a paradigm through which such regrettably delayed responses to hydromet hazard...
Lakhina, Shefali Juneja Sutley, Elaina J. Wilson, Jay
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International Journal of Disaster Risk Science
In recent years there has been an increasing emphasis on achieving convergence in disaster research, policy, and programs to reduce disaster losses and enhance social well-being. However, there remain considerable gaps in understanding “how do we actually do convergence?” In this article, we present three case studies from across geographies—New So...
