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Persons with disabilities and resilience: coping with environmental hazards case of landslides in Mount Elgon region, Uganda 残疾人和复原力:应对乌干达埃尔贡山地区山体滑坡的环境危害

IF 4 3区社会学

Environmental Hazards-Human and Policy Dimensions Pub Date : 2022-12-16 DOI: 10.1080/17477891.2022.2149454

Yeeko Kisira, Martin Ssennoga, F. Mugagga, D. Nadhomi

{"title":"Persons with disabilities and resilience: coping with environmental hazards case of landslides in Mount Elgon region, Uganda","authors":"Yeeko Kisira, Martin Ssennoga, F. Mugagga, D. Nadhomi","doi":"10.1080/17477891.2022.2149454","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17477891.2022.2149454","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Adverse impacts on persons with disabilities occur disproportionately during landslide hazards in a rugged landscape. Coping with climate-induced hazards to boost disaster resilience among persons with disabilities is directly influenced by the deepseated power relations in society. The study explored coping mechanisms and assessed their perceived effectiveness in boosting resilience of persons with disabilities in the Ugandan fragile ecosystem. A cross-sectional design with 55 in-depth household interviews, seven key informant interviews and two focus group discussions were used. Quantitative data was analysed using descriptive statistical methods. Content analysis was carried out for qualitative data. Whereas persons with disabilities highly opted for relocation/resettlement, it was also perceived as less effective in boosting landslide resilience. Self-help groups, use of assistive devices, access to early warning, and participation in disaster training and recovery plans in their order of importance-built resilience effectively. In conclusion, Persons with disabilities try to cope with landslide hazards amidst unfavourable power relations and social exclusion. We recommend increased inclusive disaster preparedness and recovery to boost access to information on disaster training, and socio-economic support services. This will directly stimulate the infrastructural, participation, and functioning capacity thus increasing their resilience to Landslides.","PeriodicalId":47335,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Hazards-Human and Policy Dimensions","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87351818","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Ripples from an earthquake: legacies of a disaster volunteer response 地震的涟漪:救灾志愿者的遗产

IF 4 3区社会学

Environmental Hazards-Human and Policy Dimensions Pub Date : 2022-12-06 DOI: 10.1080/17477891.2022.2149455

S. Carlton, Sylvia Nissen, J. Wong

{"title":"Ripples from an earthquake: legacies of a disaster volunteer response","authors":"S. Carlton, Sylvia Nissen, J. Wong","doi":"10.1080/17477891.2022.2149455","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17477891.2022.2149455","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The Student Volunteer Army was formed following the earthquake sequence of 2010–2011 in Christchurch, Aotearoa New Zealand, and has since been widely celebrated as a youth-led volunteer disaster response. More than ten years after the mobilisation, we trace the legacies of this action through in-depth interviews. Our findings demonstrate that informal disaster volunteerism can generate numerous legacies that span the biographical, social and institutional arenas. Utilising the analogy of ripples in a lake, we identify how these ripples from the student-led mobilisation extended well beyond the temporal and spatial confines of the disaster context in which they originated, and gained their own momentum in ways that were at times consciously encouraged by actors but also unintended. In identifying these legacies, our analysis helps better understand the potential impact of informal disaster volunteerism beyond the material contribution made in the immediate disaster response period. Our discussion considers the theoretical and practical implications of situating informal disaster volunteerism in a temporal context that extends prior to and well after disaster.","PeriodicalId":47335,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Hazards-Human and Policy Dimensions","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77852544","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Past experience of drought, drought risk perception, and climate mitigation and adaptation decisions by farmers in New Zealand 新西兰农民过去的干旱经验、干旱风险感知以及气候减缓和适应决策

IF 4 3区社会学

Environmental Hazards-Human and Policy Dimensions Pub Date : 2022-11-14 DOI: 10.1080/17477891.2022.2141179

T. Nguyen, P. Stahlmann-Brown, Ilan Noy

{"title":"Past experience of drought, drought risk perception, and climate mitigation and adaptation decisions by farmers in New Zealand","authors":"T. Nguyen, P. Stahlmann-Brown, Ilan Noy","doi":"10.1080/17477891.2022.2141179","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17477891.2022.2141179","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT We analyze the perception of farmers in New Zealand with regards to future drought risk as shaped by climatic change and the implications of these perceptions for climate mitigation and adaptation actions that these farmers choose to pursue. The policy options examined include reducing greenhouse gas emissions, strengthening climate resilience, and using water resources more efficiently. Almost all farmers in New Zealand expect an increase in drought frequency and intensity by 2050. We also find that age, gender, and education are correlated with future drought risk perceptions by farmers. Female farmers and farmers with higher education are more concerned about future droughts. Importantly, drought perception of farmers is associated with their climate-related mitigation and adaptation preferences. If farmers perceive an increase in drought risk by 2050, they will focus more on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, increasing the climate resilience of their farms, and trying to improve their use of water resources. Understanding how drought risk perceptions are shaped, and specifically their role in determining mitigation and adaptation decisions, may shed some useful light that can improve policy responses to the risks of droughts and climate change more broadly.","PeriodicalId":47335,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Hazards-Human and Policy Dimensions","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81623083","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Income and floods in New Zealand 新西兰的收入和洪水

IF 4 3区社会学

Environmental Hazards-Human and Policy Dimensions Pub Date : 2022-11-10 DOI: 10.1080/17477891.2022.2142500

A. Roy

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Regional differences in the effects of drought events on farm profitability in New Zealand 干旱事件对新西兰农场盈利能力影响的区域差异

IF 4 3区社会学

Environmental Hazards-Human and Policy Dimensions Pub Date : 2022-11-10 DOI: 10.1080/17477891.2022.2141180

F. Pourzand

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Local-level managers’ attitudes towards natural hazards resilience: the case of Texas 地方管理者对自然灾害恢复能力的态度:以德克萨斯州为例

IF 4 3区社会学

Environmental Hazards-Human and Policy Dimensions Pub Date : 2022-11-09 DOI: 10.1080/17477891.2022.2141178

Rotem Dvir, Carol L Goldsmith, Ian Seavey, A. Vedlitz

{"title":"Local-level managers’ attitudes towards natural hazards resilience: the case of Texas","authors":"Rotem Dvir, Carol L Goldsmith, Ian Seavey, A. Vedlitz","doi":"10.1080/17477891.2022.2141178","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17477891.2022.2141178","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Prior research on natural hazards resilience demonstrate that citizens favor immediate and direct solutions to disasters, and are less supportive of future-oriented prevention strategies. These perceptions create incentives for politicians to adopt similar views. In this study, we explore the views of an intermediate group of stakeholders – public and professional managers who play a role in the process of designing disaster relief and prevention policies. Using a survey of professional stakeholders in Texas, we map their views on the causes and policy solutions for the damages following Hurricane Harvey (Summer 2017). Overall, we find that professional stakeholders hold fairly similar views to the public. Yet, they differ from citizens as they are less supportive of distributing direct payments, instead preferring to allocate funds towards long-term prevention solutions, and creating a regulatory environment to reduce the risks. Also, our results indicate that having personal experience of hazard events further enhance those views, and stakeholders in government positions prefer even less direct governmental involvement in disaster resilience. Our findings expand existing knowledge regarding individual perceptions and policy preferences facing natural hazards by discussing the views of professionals who play important roles in designing solutions to mitigate the growing risks from climate change.","PeriodicalId":47335,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Hazards-Human and Policy Dimensions","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78338695","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The gendered dimensions of London’s last bubonic plague epidemic 1665–1666 1665-1666年伦敦最后一次黑死病流行的性别维度

IF 4 3区社会学

Environmental Hazards-Human and Policy Dimensions Pub Date : 2022-11-03 DOI: 10.1080/17477891.2022.2141181

Kent B. Barnes

{"title":"The gendered dimensions of London’s last bubonic plague epidemic 1665–1666","authors":"Kent B. Barnes","doi":"10.1080/17477891.2022.2141181","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17477891.2022.2141181","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT There was a female bias in deaths during metropolitan London’s last epidemic of bubonic plague. This was unusual for the period and place, for on an annual basis, male deaths typically exceeded female deaths, a pattern that included prior plague years. This study examines this gender bias in mortality during the 1665–1666 epidemic through statistical analyses and a review of prior studies. Analyses of mortality data obtained from the London Bills of Mortality for the epidemic and the period reveal how unlikely female deaths exceeding male deaths was for early modern London. The historical studies are consulted to gain insights into insights into differential exposure to the disease based on gender. Greater female vulnerability accounts for the anomalous parity of female and male deaths. Increased deaths from childbed during the plague year drove the convergence of female and male deaths, and plague was likely a contributing factor in these deaths. Moreover, gendered divisions of labour based on the types of livelihoods afforded women compared to men, as well as the tasks assigned to recipients of public relief during the epidemic, resulted in greater exposure of women to plague. These drove up the proportion of female deaths during the plague year.","PeriodicalId":47335,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Hazards-Human and Policy Dimensions","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78546613","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Considering sustainability trade-offs in bushfire policy for the wildland-urban interface 考虑森林火灾政策对荒地-城市界面的可持续性权衡

IF 4 3区社会学

Environmental Hazards-Human and Policy Dimensions Pub Date : 2022-10-20 DOI: 10.1080/17477891.2022.2130860

Simone Ruane, Courtney Babb, M. Swapan

{"title":"Considering sustainability trade-offs in bushfire policy for the wildland-urban interface","authors":"Simone Ruane, Courtney Babb, M. Swapan","doi":"10.1080/17477891.2022.2130860","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17477891.2022.2130860","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In Australia, bushfire risk in the wildland-urban interface (WUI) is increasing due to climate change and urbanisation. Like other complex issues, policy strategies for addressing bushfire risk are multi-faceted, involve diverse stakeholders, and are highly contested. Based on a case study of south-west Western Australia (south-west WA), we identify three key policy strategies for adapting to increased bushfire risk in WUI areas: broad-scaled prescribed burning, local bushfire risk management and land-use planning. We examine these policy strategies, firstly, to contrast their institutional arrangements and framing of goals and actions, and, secondly, to explore sustainability trade-offs. This analysis found that all policy strategies for adapting to increased bushfire risk in WUI areas have sustainability trade-offs that need to be considered. In particular, the research identified that the current bushfire policy regime has likely consequences for biodiversity conservation, nature-based interactions, health and wellbeing and local economic development. We argue that to avoid maladaptation, more sophisticated models of risk assessment, which consider the sustainability trade-offs of bushfire policy decisions and actions are needed.","PeriodicalId":47335,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Hazards-Human and Policy Dimensions","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78800423","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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How the past influences the future: flood risk perception in informal settlements 过去如何影响未来:非正式住区的洪水风险认知

IF 4 3区社会学

Environmental Hazards-Human and Policy Dimensions Pub Date : 2022-10-12 DOI: 10.1080/17477891.2022.2130854

Chati Jerry Tasantab, T. Gajendran, K. Maund

{"title":"How the past influences the future: flood risk perception in informal settlements","authors":"Chati Jerry Tasantab, T. Gajendran, K. Maund","doi":"10.1080/17477891.2022.2130854","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17477891.2022.2130854","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study presents fresh evidence from an informal settlement in Accra, Ghana, examining how knowledge, understanding, experiences, and feelings about flood risk influence the flood risk perceptions of residents. The study adopted a mixed-methods approach, involving the collection and analysis of qualitative and quantitative data. We collected the data through seventeen interviews and 392 household surveys in Glefe, Accra, Ghana. We then conducted a thematic analysis of the qualitative data to understand participants' perceptions and the factors influencing their flood risk perceptions. The factors were used to produce hypotheses about flood risk perception. We subsequently performed regression analyses using the quantitative data to test the hypothesised relationships. The findings revealed that fear, flood experience, and coping experience were the major factors influencing residents' flood risk perceptions. Taken together, these factors had varying levels of influence on risk perceptions, with fear being the most statistically significant. However, it seems that experience held sway over residents' opinions, views, and perceptions. The perceived likelihood of future flooding events was therefore determined by residents' experience with flooding and coping. The study recommends incorporating the flooding and coping experiences of residents into adaptation mechanisms because these influence their perceptions of the flooding risks.","PeriodicalId":47335,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Hazards-Human and Policy Dimensions","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78160256","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Can positional concerns be a threat to disaster management? Assessing the prevalence of positional concerns among socially vulnerable populations in Trinidad & Tobago 位置问题会对灾害管理构成威胁吗?评估特立尼达和多巴哥社会弱势群体中地位问题的普遍性

IF 4 3区社会学

Environmental Hazards-Human and Policy Dimensions Pub Date : 2022-08-16 DOI: 10.1080/17477891.2022.2096556

J. Celse, M. Kensen

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