perspectives on higher education in drr
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David AlexanderUniversity College London
Perspectives on Higher Educationin Risk and Disaster Reduction
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The long, arduous searchfor a core curriculum
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Humanmisery
●poverty●disease●malnutrition●conflict●displacement●disasters
... and climate change...?
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A Century of"Disasterology"
1917-2015
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The 'Big Bang'Halifax, Nova Scotiaship explosion,1917
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2,000 dead, 9,000 injured
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Rev. DrSamuel Henry Prince
1885-1960Nova Scotia,
Columbia University
ProfessorHarlan H. Barrows
1877-1960Michigan,
Chicago University
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1920
1923
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Floods,1920s-1960s
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Gilbert Fowler White 1911-2006
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Herbert Simon:'optimisers' and 'satisficers'
"Human beings, viewed as behaving systems,are quite simple. The apparent complexityof our behaviour over time is largely areflection of the complexity of theenvironment in which we find ourselves."
"The social sciences, I thought, needed thesame kind of rigour and the same mathe-matical underpinnings that had made the'hard' sciences so brilliantly successful."
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1970s-1980sDrought,storms,earthquakes,tornadoes,volcanic eruptions
The age of "rationalist human ecology"
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Hewitt, K. (ed.) 1983. Interpretations of Calamityfrom the Viewpoint of Human Ecology. Unwin-Hyman, London:304 pp.
The 'radical critique'
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HUMANCONSEQUENCES
OF DISASTER
“ORTHODOX” MODEL
PHYSICALEVENT
HUMANVULNERABILITY
“RADICAL CRITIQUE” (K. HEWITT et al.)HUMAN
CONSEQUENCESOF DISASTER
HUMANVULNERABILITY
PHYSICALEVENT
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Civil contingencies
Resilience
management
The risk environment
Businesscontinuity
Civildefence
Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR)
Civilprotection
HumanitarianRelief
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• what does 'neutrality' mean?
• does humanitarian aid cause disaster?
• aid is a global industry – big business
• why is the system so inefficient?
• to big to stop, too diverse to fix.
Dilemmas of humanitarianism 1992-2015
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War andconflict
Pove
rty
Naturaldisasters
Inse
curity
Vulnerability andmarginalisation
Military
Humanitarian assistance
assistance
The "Military Cross"
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Justice Impartiality
Humanitarianism
Hijacking ofassistance
Relief
Robberyand rapeof victims
Totalwar
Politicisation ofrelief suppies
Whatfuture?
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The second'big bang':9-11 and
the "War onTerrorism"
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Armed aggressionon the part of states
Civil defence
Natural disasters
Civil protection
Armed aggressionon the part of
groups of dissidents
"Homeland security"(civil defence)
"Generic" disasters
"Civil contingencies"(resilience)
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• concept of 'war' was misleading
• it spread radicalisation
• neglect of natural disaster preparedness
• unhealthy regeneration of Cold War
• USA lost lead role in 'disasterology'.
What went wrong
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The entry onto the stage of resilience1981-2015
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General resilience
Disaster resilience Disaster mitigation
Disaster response
The broader picture
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Prof. CrawfordStanley ('Buzz')
Holling[b. 1930],Canadiansystemsecologist,Universityof Florida
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Annual Review of Ecology & Systematics 4 (1973)
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LAW
STATESMANSHIP
LITERATURE
SCIENTIFICMETHOD
MECHANICS
MANU-FACTURING
ECOLOGY
MANAGEMENT(ADAPTIVE)
CHILDPSYCHOLOGY
ANTHROPOLOGY
SOCIALRESEARCH
DISASTER RISKREDUCTION
SUSTAINABILITYSCIENCE CLIMATE CHANGE
ADAPTATION
c. BC 50
AD 15291625
1859
19301950
1973
2000
2010
NATURALHISTORY
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• analysis of the stabilityof ecological assemblages
• ideal for island ecology andother well-defined systems
• in line with GST resilienceis an equilibrium tendency
• promotes a narrow viewof the resilience concept
• Holling's approach has beenwidely used uncritically.
Holling's use of the resilience concept
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RESILIENCE
Social
Tech
nica
l
Physical
Psych
ological
CLIMATE CHANGEADAPTATION
DISASTER RISKREDUCTION
OTHER HAZARDSAND RISKS
naturalsocial
technologicalintentionalcompoundcascading
SUSTAINABILITYSCIENCE
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• an objective, a process or a strategy?
• a paradigm, diverse paradigms?
• 'bounce-back' or 'bounce-forward'?
• focuses on the community scale
• can reconcile dynamic & static elements.
Resilience
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RESILIENCE:as a material has brittlestrength and ductility:
society must have an optimumcombination of resistance tohazard impacts and ability
to adapt to them.
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HUMANCONSEQUENCES
OF DISASTER
“ORTHODOX” MODEL
PHYSICALEVENT
HUMANVULNERABILITY
“RADICAL CRITIQUE” (K. HEWITT et al.)HUMAN
CONSEQUENCESOF DISASTER
HUMANVULNERABILITY
PHYSICALEVENT
CURRENT NEEDS
HUMANCONSEQUENCES
OF DISASTER
HUMANVULNERABILITY
CULTURE HISTORYPHYSICALEVENTS
CONTEXT & CONSEQUENCES
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Resilientculture
Culture ofresilience
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A model of culture
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Organisationalsystems:management
Socialsystems:behaviour
Naturalsystems:function
Technicalsystems:
malfunction
VulnerabilityHazard
Resilienc
e
Politicalsystems:decisions
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Long term
Short term
Emic components
Etic components
METAMORPHOSISOF CULTURE
Experiences of culture[mass-media and consumer culture]
Accumulated cultural traits and beliefs
Inherited cultural background
Ideological(non-scientific)interpretations
of disaster
Learned(scientific)
interpretationsof disaster
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Retribution Judgement Portent
DISASTERMEANING ACCEPTANCE
Retrospectiveinterpretation
Predictiveinterpretation
Traditional view of disaster - modern parallels?
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Symbolisminherent in
technologicalculture
Traditionalsymbolism
and portent
Event
Interpretation
Dynamic culturalmetamorphosis
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Valuesystem
Familyculture
Workculture
Peergroupculture
Personalculture
National culture
Regional culture
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Riskamplification
factors
Riskmitigationfactors
Totalvulnerability
Risk perceptionfactors- +
positivenegative
DIALECTIC
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INSTRUMENTS OFDISSEMINATION
• mass media• targeted campaign• social networks
• internet
Augmentation
MASSEDUCATIONPROGRAMME
HUMANCAPITAL
HABIT
CULTURE
The creation of a culture of civil protection
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What next?
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This is the world we live in.
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The wreck of rational analysis uponthe rock of political considerations.
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Evidence can be:-• precise• decisive• equivocal• ambiguous• puzzling• uninterpretable
(evidence of what?)• ignored• distorted• used selectively.
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Displacementand migration
Climate changeadaptation
Disaster responseand mitigation
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Climate change Terrorism
Displacementand migration
Pandemicsand epidemics
Population increase
Env
iron
ment
al ch
ang
eConflict
Technologicaldisasters and
major incidents
'Natural'disasters
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RISKSdaily: unemployment, poverty, disease, etc.major disaster: floods, storms, quakes, etc.emerging risks: pandemics, climate change
SUSTAINABILITYdisaster risk reduction
resource consumptionstewardship of the environment
economic activitieslifestyles and communities
SUSTAINABILITY
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Vulnerability
Total: life isgenerally precariousEconomic: people lackadequate occupationTechnological/technocratic: dueto the riskiness of technologyDelinquent: caused bycorruption, negligence, etc.Residual: caused bylack of modernisationNewly generated: caused bychanges in circumstances
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• disaster risk reduction and climatechange adaptation will partially merge
• global mobility will become a majorfactor in disaster risk reduction
• resilience will probably disappoint
• the weight of key concepts: vulnerability
• sustainable DRR, sustainable lives.
The future
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System is... Example of catalytic disaster
SubstitutedEconomic catastrophe after
mega natural or anthropogenic event
Threshold of economic sustainability
Redirected Indian Ocean tsunami, 2004 (?)
Threshold of political and public tolerance
Static Earthquakes: Sichuan 2008, Nepal 2015
Threshold of sustained political and public attention
In decline No significant major events
The potential catalysts for change
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Conclusions
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Basic concepts:hazard, vulnerability,
exposure, risk,impact, resilience, etc.
Hazardanalysis
Technical skills:telecomminications
computer, GIS, etc.Emergencyplanning
Emergencymanagement
Disastersociology andpsychology
Public informationmanagement
Recovery andreconstruction
planning
Methods ofrisk mitigation
Fieldexercises
Disaster and emergencymanagement training
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Broad professional training in emergency management
Professional experienceand training
Disciplinary training(e.g. bachelor's degree)
Commonculture
Commonlanguage
Commonobjectives
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Regulationof hazardousindustries(Séveso)
Consultancyservices
Businesscontinuity
management
Insurance:prediction
and actuarialwork
Emergencyplanning andmanagement
Humanitarianrelief and
development
Education andtraining in crisisand emergencymanagement
On-the-jobcivil protection
experience
Management,social science
and hazards studies
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Recognition andan institutionalrole for the
professional figure
Certificationof competence
Trainingprogrammes
Emergingprofessional
figure
Policies andlegislation
Research Experience
Organi-sation
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Academicknowledgeproducer
Simple phenomenon
Complex analysis
Beneficiary(knowledgeuser)
barrier oftechnicalcomplexity
Unsatisfactoryoutcome
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Write strongly.
Write simply.
Avoid jargon.
Reduce technical complexity.
Write to communicate.
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