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Community Participation in Disaster Risk Reduction: Perspectives, Methodologies and Evaluations

A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Climate Change".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2022) | Viewed by 28124

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Subhajyoti Samaddar

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Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University, Gokasho, Uji , Kyoto 611-0011, Japan
Interests: partciptory approach; risk communication; community based disaster preparedness; implementation science
Dr. Kaori Kitagawa

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Institute of Education, University College London, 20 Bedford Way, London WC1H 0AL, UK
Interests: community-based and participatory DRR/CCA; DRR learning; DRR education; community learning; public pedagogy
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Prof. Hirokazu Tatano

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Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University, Gokasho, Uji, Kyoto 611-0011, Japan
Interests: economic impact analysis of disaster; disaster recovery; decision-making for disaster risk reduction; implementation science of integrated disaster risk management

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

In recent decades, community participation has become a buzzword for successful social implementation of disaster risk reduction (DRR) plans and strategies, yet its actualization largely remains elusive. The so-called successful community-based DRR initiatives have rarely been replicated and scaled up. Innovative tools and methods have continuously been introduced to increase the effective involvement of local communities in DRR, yet there hardly exists any consensus about the process of participation—who will be involved, when, and to what extent. In principle, several claims have been made in favor of community participation but they have have seldom been empirically validated. The very idea of participation remains value-laden. In addition, communities are not homogeneous units, which creates an enormous challenge for selecting, representing, and incorporating the core values, concerns, and visions of communities in the decision-making process. This is a timely call to systematically and rigorously examine the process and outcome factors of community participation to unravel what works, when, and why. This Special Issue invites papers on DRR focusing on theoretical and empirical studies of:

- Participatory framework: process and outcome

- Evaluation of participatory programs and projects

- Innovative participatory tools and techniques

- Implementation challenges of participatory disaster risk reduction

- Participatory disaster risk governance models and approaches

- Community of practice and purpose in DRR

-  Community definition, sense of community in participatory process

- Treads and patterns of community-based DRR across regions and countries

Prof. Subhajyoti Samaddar
Dr. Kaori Kitagawa
Prof. Hirokazu Tatano
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • community-based
  • participatory approach
  • processes and outcomes of participation
  • participatory methods and tools
  • participatory disaster risk governance
  • implementation science for DRR
  • case studies of community-based DRR
  • evaluation
  • integrated disaster risk management

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Does Trust Help to Improve Residents’ Perceptions of the Efficacy of Disaster Preparedness? Evidence from Wenchuan and Lushan Earthquakes in Sichuan Province, China
by Fengwan Zhang, Xueling Bao, Xin Deng, Wei Wang, Jiahao Song and Dingde Xu
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19(8), 4515; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19084515 - 8 Apr 2022
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Disaster preparation can reduce the impact of an earthquake on residents. Residents are more likely to undertake disaster preparedness if they perceive it to be effective. However, few studies have analyzed the influence of trust on this perception. This study surveyed 327 households [...] Read more.
Disaster preparation can reduce the impact of an earthquake on residents. Residents are more likely to undertake disaster preparedness if they perceive it to be effective. However, few studies have analyzed the influence of trust on this perception. This study surveyed 327 households in areas stricken by the Wenchuan and Lushan earthquakes to explore these issues. Trust was divided into government trust, emotional trust, and social trust, while the efficacy of disaster preparedness was divided into self-efficacy and response efficacy. A partial least squares structural equation model was used to explore the influence of trust on perceptions of the efficacy of disaster preparedness. The results show that: (1) government trust can directly increase perceived efficacy and indirectly increase self-efficacy via emotional trust; (2) emotional trust can directly increase self-efficacy; (3) social trust can directly reduce self-efficacy while indirectly increasing it by increasing emotional trust. This study deepens our understanding of the relationship between trust and perceptions of the efficacy of disaster preparedness. This study can provide inspiration to improve risk communication and construct systems of community-based disaster-prevention. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Community Participation in Disaster Risk Reduction: Perspectives, Methodologies and Evaluations)
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Stay in Risk Area: Place Attachment, Efficacy Beliefs and Risk Coping
by Chen Qing, Shili Guo, Xin Deng, Wei Wang, Jiahao Song and Dingde Xu
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19(4), 2375; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19042375 - 18 Feb 2022
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For residents living in earthquake-threatened areas, choosing suitable risk coping behaviors can effectively reduce the loss of family life and property. However, some residents still choose to continue to live within areas at risk of earthquake disaster. Place attachment may play an important [...] Read more.
For residents living in earthquake-threatened areas, choosing suitable risk coping behaviors can effectively reduce the loss of family life and property. However, some residents still choose to continue to live within areas at risk of earthquake disaster. Place attachment may play an important role. Based on place attachment theory and the Protective Action Decision Model (PADM), this study explores the possible relationships among place attachment, efficacy beliefs, and evacuation/relocation intention. Furthermore, it examines the mediating role of efficacy beliefs. The study also used the partial least squares method (PLS-SEM) to test samples of 327 rural households in Wenchuan and Lushan earthquake-hit areas. The results show that: (1) Place attachment has a significant effect on response efficacy (RE), but not on self-efficacy (SE); (2) Place dependence (PD) has a negative and significant effect on relocation intention (RI) but has no significant effect on evacuation intention (EI). However, place identity (PI) can indirectly affect EI by influencing RE; (3) Efficacy beliefs have a significant positive effect on EI and RI. These results help us understand the complex relationships among place attachment, efficacy beliefs, and residents’ risk coping behavior, thus providing decision-making references for the formulation and improvement of regional disaster risk management policies. Full article
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Why Do Communities Recover Differently after Socio-Natural Disasters? Pathways to Comprehensive Success of Recovery Projects Based on Bam’s (Iran) Neighborhoods’ Perspective
by Homa Bahmani and Wei Zhang
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19(2), 678; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19020678 - 7 Jan 2022
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Although recent studies have provided explanations for the causes of success and failure in recovery projects following socio-natural disasters, there is a need for a concise understanding of how different combinations of factors may contribute to recovery failure or success. In this study, [...] Read more.
Although recent studies have provided explanations for the causes of success and failure in recovery projects following socio-natural disasters, there is a need for a concise understanding of how different combinations of factors may contribute to recovery failure or success. In this study, to examine the community recovery pathways after the 2003 Bam earthquake, we conducted a fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis of 11 neighborhoods in Bam city and Baravat (the neighborhoods represent the division of the areas damaged by the earthquake, as presented by local government). The success of socio-natural disaster recovery projects is presented in three pathways in which the absence or presence of public engagement had a significant influence on the results. The results indicate that a recovery project should respond to the needs of the project within the continuous lifecycle of the project. Additionally, on the one hand, public participation and prompt rescue operations have a significant effect on project success. On the other hand, neglecting the needs of people and the area’s climate in housing design have led to project failure. It is expected that the findings from this study can be used to develop strategies for empowering people in recovery projects and to develop housing guidelines that respect residents’ needs while focusing on on-time and sufficient rescue processes. However, care should be taken when applying the present findings in practice, because every socio-natural disaster is unique and requires careful consideration of complex sets of features. Full article
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Utilizing Social Media for Information Dispersal during Local Disasters: The Communication Hub Framework for Local Emergency Management
by Dionne Mitcham, Morgan Taylor and Curtis Harris
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2021, 18(20), 10784; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182010784 - 14 Oct 2021
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In today’s society, the use of social media has increased the public’s desire to receive information quickly and to be able to interact with communicators. During a disaster, the trend to turn to social media for information has risen in popularity. Society’s reliance [...] Read more.
In today’s society, the use of social media has increased the public’s desire to receive information quickly and to be able to interact with communicators. During a disaster, the trend to turn to social media for information has risen in popularity. Society’s reliance on social media and quick access to information has led the field of emergency management and the role of a Public Information Officer to adapt to include social media as a crisis communication channel for information dispersal. Existing frameworks for the use of social media as a channel for crisis communications provide guidance for emergency management agencies across all levels of government but fail to account for the varying access to communication resources at the local level. Due to the differing access to communication resources and unique relationships with stakeholders at the local level, there is a need for guidance on how local emergency management agencies can use social media to disperse essential information. The proposed Communication Hub Framework utilizes local emergency management professionals’ relationships with key community stakeholders to aid in the distribution of essential information to community members via social media during a disaster. Full article
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Environment Actors Confronting a Post Climate-Related Disaster Scenario: A Feasibility Study of an Action-Based Intervention Aiming to Promote Climate Action
by Neide P. Areia, Alexandre O. Tavares and José Manuel Mendes
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2021, 18(11), 5949; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18115949 - 1 Jun 2021
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(1) A climate change awareness-action gap still prevails in our society, with individuals showing significant social inertia regarding environmental issues. The communication on climate change is pointed out as one of the causes of the social inertia; (2) Following an action-oriented transformation research, [...] Read more.
(1) A climate change awareness-action gap still prevails in our society, with individuals showing significant social inertia regarding environmental issues. The communication on climate change is pointed out as one of the causes of the social inertia; (2) Following an action-oriented transformation research, the main goal of this study was to ascertain the feasibility of an action-based communication intervention, based on the participants’ exposure to a post climate-related disaster scenario. The feasibility of the action-based communication intervention was assessed in a focus group meeting, whose content was qualitatively analysed; (3) The results of this study demonstrate that action-based communication interventions are feasible to trigger an attitude transformation, catalysed by the experiential processing of climate change and by the affect arousal; (4) This study comes to contribute to a transformation of the climate change communication praxis, by highlighting the urgency to shift the for a new paradigm of communicating climate change, in which the affect and the experiential processing should account for conveying environment-related information in order to promote society’s climate action. Full article
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A Methodology of Workshops to Explore Mutual Assistance Activities for Earthquake Disaster Mitigation
by Kazuki Karashima and Akira Ohgai
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2021, 18(7), 3814; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18073814 - 6 Apr 2021
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To minimize the damage caused by large earthquakes, mutual assistance activities between residents and rescue victims (i.e., to support residents who cannot evacuate individually) are important. To enhance these activities, the technologies and methods for creating a Community Disaster Management Plan (CDMP), based [...] Read more.
To minimize the damage caused by large earthquakes, mutual assistance activities between residents and rescue victims (i.e., to support residents who cannot evacuate individually) are important. To enhance these activities, the technologies and methods for creating a Community Disaster Management Plan (CDMP), based on the quantitative evaluation of mutual assistance abilities, are required. However, the lack of a method for it is a key issue. This study aims to develop a methodology of workshops for making CDMPs by using the developed support tool by the authors to explore and promote mutual assistance activities. Through the demonstration and examination of a Community Disaster Management Plan on actual districts, the findings mentioned in this article were obtained. Moreover, the usability of this method is shown. In particular, this method is effective at revising CDMPs, and raising resident awareness on the importance of mutual assistance. The suggested method can also improve the lack of techniques involved in promoting mutual assistance. Full article
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Linking Disaster Risk Reduction and Healthcare in Locations with Limited Accessibility: Challenges and Opportunities of Participatory Research
by Ilan Kelman and Myles Harris
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2021, 18(1), 248; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18010248 - 31 Dec 2020
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Disaster risk reduction and healthcare support each other, including the mitigation of further harm after illness or injury. These connections are particularly relevant in locations which have permanent or temporary limited accessibility. In these circumstances, people are required to be self-sufficient in providing [...] Read more.
Disaster risk reduction and healthcare support each other, including the mitigation of further harm after illness or injury. These connections are particularly relevant in locations which have permanent or temporary limited accessibility. In these circumstances, people are required to be self-sufficient in providing emergency and long-term healthcare with limited resources. Planning and preparing to mitigate further harm after illness or injury from disasters (disaster risk reduction) must include people living and working in locations with limited accessibility, meaning that participatory research can be used. The challenges and opportunities of enacting participatory research in such contexts have not been thoroughly examined. The research question of this paper is therefore, “What challenges and opportunities occur when participatory research links disaster risk reduction and healthcare to mitigate illness and injury in locations with limited accessibility?” To answer this research question, the method used is a qualitative evidence synthesis, combined with an overview paper approach. Two principal themes of challenges and opportunities are examined: defining the data and collecting the data. The themes are explored in theory and then through contextual examples. The conclusion is that an overarching challenge is divergent goals of research and actions that, when recognized, lead to opportunities for improved connections between disaster risk reduction and healthcare. Full article
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