DisastersPub Date : 2025-05-23DOI: 10.1111/disa.12688
Nicolas Rost
{"title":"A simple model to facilitate fast humanitarian funding","authors":"Nicolas Rost","doi":"10.1111/disa.12688","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/disa.12688","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article presents a simple regression model to inform decisions on the allocation amount from the United Nations' Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) in response to new or deteriorating humanitarian emergencies. The model offers a quick and user-friendly way to summarise historical (2016–24) CERF allocations and to estimate amounts for new allocations. It includes four elements: type of emergency; total funding required for a short-term humanitarian response; overall humanitarian needs and risks in the country; and the number of people who would receive humanitarian assistance or protection services with a CERF allocation. The model is integrated into CERF's decision-making process, which considers other factors as well. It provides a check by generating an analytical comparison with almost 380 past allocations. In an external review, the model has been found ‘fit for purpose’. The article concludes with a discussion of other potential uses of the model and how it could be developed.</p>","PeriodicalId":48088,"journal":{"name":"Disasters","volume":"49 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144118196","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DisastersPub Date : 2025-05-13DOI: 10.1111/disa.12687
William A. Veness, Nancy Balfour, Jimmy O'Keeffe, Wouter Buytaert
{"title":"Humanitarian management of drought needs better water security data","authors":"William A. Veness, Nancy Balfour, Jimmy O'Keeffe, Wouter Buytaert","doi":"10.1111/disa.12687","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/disa.12687","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Droughts are a primary driver of humanitarian crises in arid regions, yet early warning systems that index humanitarian financing often omit water security data in favour of food security monitoring. Based on 42 expert interviews assessing management barriers and information needs during the 2020–24 drought in the Horn of Africa, resulting in an estimated 71,100 excess deaths in Somalia alone, we find water security data to be critical in shifting management to proactive mechanisms. Monitoring of water availability (such as water quality and groundwater/surface water levels) and water access (such as water prices and household surveys) is needed to design solutions that proactively mitigate water shortages and their secondary impacts on food security (such as through borehole rehabilitation, alternative water supplies, and cash transfers). Furthermore, if causal relations between water and food insecurity are analysed, the cost–benefit basis for financing water supply interventions can be more completely propositioned, and food insecurity hotspots can be better anticipated.</p>","PeriodicalId":48088,"journal":{"name":"Disasters","volume":"49 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/disa.12687","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143944424","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DisastersPub Date : 2025-05-12DOI: 10.1111/disa.12686
Kien Nguyen-Trung, Trinh Thi Thu Thuy, Nguyen Phuong Anh, Ngo Cong-Lem, Do Thi Huyen, Le Thi Diu, Nguyen Hong Giang, Michael Simon
{"title":"Vulnerabilities of people with different types of disabilities in disasters: a rapid evidence review and qualitative research","authors":"Kien Nguyen-Trung, Trinh Thi Thu Thuy, Nguyen Phuong Anh, Ngo Cong-Lem, Do Thi Huyen, Le Thi Diu, Nguyen Hong Giang, Michael Simon","doi":"10.1111/disa.12686","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/disa.12686","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Despite the growth of disaster scholarship, the topic of how and why climate-related disasters and extreme weather events vary among people with different types of disabilities remains unexplored. To help fill the gap, this study draws on a larger research project that was co-designed by Water Sensitive Cities Australia at Monash University and the Hanoi Association of People with Disabilities, Vietnam. It utilised the dataset of a rapid evidence review of 33 studies, key informant interviews with 26 local stakeholders, and 52 interviews with people with various disabilities in Hanoi and Nghe An province, Vietnam. Using thematic analysis, we identified eight themes pertaining to socially-constructed difficulties facing people with disabilities: barriers to accessing disaster risk information and warnings; difficulties in understanding emergencies; challenges in communicating needs; evacuation and mobility hurdles; decreased sense of belonging and isolation; increased risk of getting sick; increased risk of developing mental health and behavioural disorders; and disrupted livelihood and loss of income.</p>","PeriodicalId":48088,"journal":{"name":"Disasters","volume":"49 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/disa.12686","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143939518","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DisastersPub Date : 2025-04-29DOI: 10.1111/disa.12685
Chris Weeks
{"title":"The ‘slow-burn effect’ of human trafficking following disaster","authors":"Chris Weeks","doi":"10.1111/disa.12685","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/disa.12685","url":null,"abstract":"<p>A disaster is frequently cited as a driver of human trafficking, with claims that earthquakes, tsunamis, or typhoons create a chaotic post-calamity environment ripe for traffickers to recruit their victims. Theory suggests that increased poverty, displacement, and a breakdown of law and order contribute to this situation. Yet, there is little discussion in the literature of how post-disaster trafficking unfolds, coupled with a dearth of empirical evidence. This paper challenges existing disaster–trafficking assumptions through interviews with trafficking survivors in the Philippines, a disaster-prone nation and an averred ‘trafficking hotspot’. Interviewees indicated that disaster-related disruption to their lives prompted a chain of events which resulted in trafficking many years later—in other words, a notable ‘slow-burn effect’. These are presented here as five disaster–trafficking narratives or themes, which paint a more nuanced picture than the oft-held assumption that traffickers exploit people directly in a disaster zone, in the immediate aftermath of the event.</p>","PeriodicalId":48088,"journal":{"name":"Disasters","volume":"49 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/disa.12685","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143883906","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DisastersPub Date : 2025-03-28DOI: 10.1111/disa.12684
Matthew Rout, Shaun Awatere, John Reid, Emily Campbell, Annie Huang, Tui Warmenhoven
{"title":"Barriers to and opportunities for the restoration of mana in emergency management legislation and its implementation for Māori","authors":"Matthew Rout, Shaun Awatere, John Reid, Emily Campbell, Annie Huang, Tui Warmenhoven","doi":"10.1111/disa.12684","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/disa.12684","url":null,"abstract":"<p><i>Ever since colonisation by the British in 1840, Māori, the indigenous peoples of Aotearoa New Zealand, have been fighting to reclaim their mana (authority and influence) over their whenua (land). They were set to regain mana in emergency management (EM) through a parliamentary Bill, but a recent change of government has seen this legislation discharged. This paper explores the barriers to and the opportunities for gains in authority and influence in EM, with authority understood as representation on the national and regional EM bodies, and influence as incorporation of the Māori worldview into legislation and supporting EM implementation documentation. The study applies these different levels of analysis to two case studies to examine any EM-related changes between the Christchurch earthquake in February 2011 and the arrival of Cyclone Gabrielle in February 2023. The paper offers several strategies at both analytical levels that Māori could use to further their mana under the current government.</i></p>","PeriodicalId":48088,"journal":{"name":"Disasters","volume":"49 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/disa.12684","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143726877","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DisastersPub Date : 2025-03-18DOI: 10.1111/disa.12682
Anne Décobert
{"title":"Healthcare, solidarity, and moral community in Myanmar's humanitarian crisis and revolution","authors":"Anne Décobert","doi":"10.1111/disa.12682","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/disa.12682","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Drawing on in-depth qualitative research, this article explores how the experiences and practices of health workers responding to humanitarian crises can foster new forms of solidarity, moral community, and state–society relations in situations of conflict, structural violence, and disputed governance. Focusing on partnerships formed between ethnic minority and former government health workers since Myanmar's coup of 2021, it shows how shared experiences of suffering, and relationships of care forged to address it, foster more inclusive and equitable notions of moral community. Community-level health partnerships are key not just for crisis response, but also for challenging divisive and exclusionary forms of citizenship, service delivery, and governance, and for building more just and emancipatory models of civic identity, social welfare, and state–society relations—health workers being potential agents of revolutionary change. International aid must support community-led social welfare mechanisms that build solidarity and social justice ‘from below’ in contexts of structural violence and disputed governance.</p>","PeriodicalId":48088,"journal":{"name":"Disasters","volume":"49 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/disa.12682","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143646047","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DisastersPub Date : 2025-03-18DOI: 10.1111/disa.12683
Jarle Eid, Ilan Kelman, Kjersti B. Valdersnes, Roar Espevik, Guttorm Brattebø, Anita L. Hansen, Laila Shahzad, Gianluca Pescaroli
{"title":"COVID-19 impacts on emergency responder resilience in Bergen and London","authors":"Jarle Eid, Ilan Kelman, Kjersti B. Valdersnes, Roar Espevik, Guttorm Brattebø, Anita L. Hansen, Laila Shahzad, Gianluca Pescaroli","doi":"10.1111/disa.12683","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/disa.12683","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study qualitatively compares how 18 experienced emergency responders from the fire services in Bergen, Norway, and London, United Kingdom, maintained and adapted their organisation's work, routines, and leadership practices to maintain operational capacity, preparedness, and resilience during the COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) pandemic from 2020-23. Semi-structured, qualitative interviews were conducted with nine experienced emergency responders in London and nine in Bergen, enquiring how the pandemic affected their work, their needs for maintaining operational preparedness going forward, and their COVID-19 experiences. Four themes emerged, related to their emotional experiences, how to maintain readiness, continuing to serve the community, and professionalism and learning. The discussion of these themes highlights the need for flexibility in planning, rather than comprehensive plans, and leadership that understands emergency responders' requirements. Drawing on the unique aspects of this study, a two-country comparison and the focus on experienced emergency responders, recommendations are offered for individual and organisational resilience, and the interface between them.</p>","PeriodicalId":48088,"journal":{"name":"Disasters","volume":"49 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143646048","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DisastersPub Date : 2025-03-04DOI: 10.1111/disa.12678
Eija Meriläinen
{"title":"Nature–society relations in disaster governance frameworks","authors":"Eija Meriläinen","doi":"10.1111/disa.12678","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/disa.12678","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper studies how the relations between nature and society are constructed in disaster governance frameworks. Dominant disaster governance frameworks present nature and society as separate realms, and the organisation of society is increasingly seen as the key cause of hazards and disasters. Disaster impacts are similarly framed around adverse societal consequences, while other-than-human nature is merely the background across which disasters unfold, as property lost, or a means of disaster governance. Although the centrality of human impacts is troubled when biodiversity or a disaster flagship species is threatened, neither situation challenges the nature–society dualism embedded in dominant disaster governance frameworks. The attention and resources of disaster governance target the societal side of nature–society dualism. This study finds, though, that in peripheries characterised by remoteness from centres of power, a sparse human population, and large spaces of other-than-human nature, the vulnerabilities facing humans and other-than-human nature risk being ungoverned.</p>","PeriodicalId":48088,"journal":{"name":"Disasters","volume":"49 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/disa.12678","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143554380","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What does it mean to conduct ethical research after disasters? A case study of the 3.11 disaster in Japan","authors":"Sudeepa Abeysinghe, Kaori Honda, Claire Leppold, Allison Lloyd Williams, Akihiko Ozaki, Aya Goto","doi":"10.1111/disa.12681","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/disa.12681","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The 3.11 disaster in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, is a useful case study through which to interrogate research ethics. This region has been the site of a high degree of research interest, which sometimes presented a source of stress to local communities. This study examines researcher perspectives on the ethics of post-disaster health research. Qualitative interviews were conducted with these informants, who noted that recovering communities experienced significant over-research, particularly in the form of survey fatigue, which was seen to influence viewpoints concerning both recovery and agency. Efforts to integrate better into community needs reoriented reflexive research towards ‘post-normal’ forms of working. Simultaneously, researchers had to navigate funding and reward structures that prioritised the swift production of results. Focusing on community engagement and feedback, and managing this ethical complexity, were seen as essential forms of ethical practice to mitigate the negative impacts that the influx of research activity can have on a recovering community.</p>","PeriodicalId":48088,"journal":{"name":"Disasters","volume":"49 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/disa.12681","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143554258","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
DisastersPub Date : 2025-02-27DOI: 10.1111/disa.12680
Irene Petraroli, Akiha Nagahama, Roger C. Baars, Kiyomine Terumoto
{"title":"Ready for the worst: awaiting disaster in ageing rural Japan","authors":"Irene Petraroli, Akiha Nagahama, Roger C. Baars, Kiyomine Terumoto","doi":"10.1111/disa.12680","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/disa.12680","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Inami, a small seaside town in Wakayama Prefecture, Japan, is getting ready for the next Nankai Trough earthquake, which is expected to involve multiple events of magnitude 7.0+ on the maximum seismic intensity scale, causing landslides and tsunamis. This paper is concerned with the capabilities and challenges of an elderly community in this highly prepared rural town. The results show that the continued mainstreaming of disaster preparedness practices has led to widespread awareness of evacuation sites and basic knowledge of disaster evacuation needs. Arguably, however, insufficient support is provided to the elderly as current procedures often do not consider how their reduced mobility, physical strength, and psychological discomfort might impact on evacuation itself and life at the shelters. This paper contributes to the literature on disaster and vulnerability by critically assessing and expanding on perceptions of ageing and disasters in rural areas vis-à-vis the traditional depiction of the elderly as ‘vulnerable and helpless’.</p>","PeriodicalId":48088,"journal":{"name":"Disasters","volume":"49 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/disa.12680","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143497407","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}