Disaster prevention - Doing it differently by rethinking the nature of knowledge and learning
Emerald Publishing Limited
Published on 30. January 2019
144 pages
978-1-78973-928-2 (ISBN)
Description
This issue calls for rethinking sources of knowledge and learning for disaster prevention. It focuses on practitioners engaged in Disaster Risk Reduction at local level, presenting an action research programme dedicated to strengthening knowledge and learning from practice. This issue builds on Gibson and Wisner (2016) to investigate qualitatively, through the eyes of local level practitioners, mechanisms of knowledge and learning which can add to our understanding of disaster prevention. It is founded on the premise that the shared goal of secure lives and livelihoods can only be achieved where knowledge and expertise derived from local level action is respected, shared and mobilised alongside other sources. The contributions that follow here suggest that knowledge itself has to be understood differently and so, too, does the process of learning. This can lead to a greater mutual understanding of both one's own perceptions and those of others, each with their own values and justifications.
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- Covers
- Editorial advisory board
- Guest editorial
- Views from the Frontline and Frontline methodology: critical reflection on theory and practice
- Developing the CSO case studies
- Traditional Kiribati beliefs about environmental issues and its impacts on rural and urban communities
- Advancing small island resilience and inclusive development through a convergence strategy in Carles, Philippines
- Waiting for politics at the mercy of river: case study of an enduring community
- Social and economic inequality limits disaster prevention amongst the most vulnerable in Vietnam
- Tackling everyday risks through climate adaptive organic farming
- Citizens of Delhi lead resilience action
- Enhancing resilience against floods in the Lower Motowoh community, Limbe, Southwest Cameroon
- Enhancing earthquake resilience of communities: an action by women's groups in Nepal
- Drawing the case studies together: synthesis of case studies and group discussions
- Making communities disaster resilient
- Local responses to disasters: recent lessons from zero-order responders
- Local voices and action: concluding discussion
