{"title":"Post-Disaster Temporary Housing: An Emic Study of Lived Experiences of Victims of the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami","authors":"S. Mazumdar, Shunsuke Itoh, A. Iwasa","doi":"10.1177/028072702103900105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/028072702103900105","url":null,"abstract":"In Japan, after a brief stay at a temporary shelter immediately following a disaster, disaster victims (DVs) are provided temporary housing (TH), which precedes permanent recovery housing. Procurement, design, and allocation of TH are standardized and done using an outsider's (etic) perspective and considerations. The research questions for this study were: What were the lived experiences of DVs having to live in the TH supplied? How could life in TH be made more comfortable through design and planning? This research was conducted from a local person's (emic) perspective and focused on lived experiences, fit, coping, and adjustments. To uncover and understand what was important to the DV a Naturalistic Field Research method was used which involved fieldwork, on-site observations, and interviews. Important learnings included the following: Lived experience in TH was made difficult by their unsuitable, inconvenient, and impractical design, which lacked appropriate consideration of residents’ needs as well as cultural and religious practices. Adequate privacy was not provided by the nature of the construction. Though modifications were not permitted at most TH, unauthorized do-it-yourself modification efforts were made by DVs to improve their quality of life. Theoretical considerations and pragmatic implications are described in the concluding discussion.","PeriodicalId":84928,"journal":{"name":"International journal of mass emergencies and disasters","volume":"62 1","pages":"87 - 119"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75029169","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gender Inclusion and the Impact on Women's Lives in Post Disaster Build Back Better Programmes in Sri Lanka","authors":"Y. Kaluarachchi","doi":"10.1177/028072702103900103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/028072702103900103","url":null,"abstract":"This paper focuses on consideration and inclusion of gender, specifically, aspects in relation to women in post-disaster rebuilding strategies and policies in Trincomalee and Batticaloa Districts in Sri Lanka. It explores whether gender concerns were addressed within the context of the Build Back Better Programmes and examines the prospects for promoting livelihood opportunities, household incomes, and community benefits. The objectives of the paper are to examine the development of the gender inclusivity agenda in Sri Lanka, explore gender in the context of disaster events, and the impact of gender-responsive programs on the livelihoods of women. Women's participation and engagement in decision-making and the potential contribution of their micro incomes on household earnings are also discussed. The research mainly adopts a qualitative methodology, relying on literature and case study reviews complemented by quantitative data collected by government and international agencies in relation to the location. Policy documents and data sets related to gender inclusion in South Asia, focusing on Sri Lanka and the chosen locations, Trincomalee and Batticaloa, were analyzed. Three case studies were selected and reviewed in detail against their aims, objectives, results, and benefits. An inductive approach was used for the analysis to identify themes that were common or different in the case study examples. These themes were related to the impact on women's engagement and livelihoods in post-disaster contexts. The result and information show that gender inclusion has not advanced considerably. While foundations for gender equity and inclusion are laid, many more progressive initiatives and development protocols are needed to mainstream gender inclusion in post-disaster development programmes. It is expected that findings will provide a deeper understanding of gender inclusion in redevelopment activities and the related governance processes to engage women and respond to their needs with the available resources.","PeriodicalId":84928,"journal":{"name":"International journal of mass emergencies and disasters","volume":"33 1","pages":"43 - 64"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87377024","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bottom-Up Adaptive Social Protection: A Case Study of Self-Constructed Grassroots Attitude in the Post-Wenchuan Earthquake Recovery","authors":"Haorui Wu","doi":"10.1177/028072702103900104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/028072702103900104","url":null,"abstract":"Current adaptive social protection programs and policies have been predominately designed from the organizational level, applied via a top-down trajectory, and are passively accepted by affected communities. While bottom-up grassroots interventions, providing their benefits, have rarely been encouraged in adaptive social protection programs nor complimented the related adaptive social protection policies. Based on a case study of the post-Wenchuan earthquake reconstruction and recovery in rural areas, this research qualitatively examines the broader range of benefits of self-built undertakings that support government-oriented adaptive social protection initiatives. These self-efforts have accomplished much more than the original adaptive social protection initiatives could have achieved. They not only provide the residents with safe, comfortable, and healthy places to live but also protect their traditional knowledge and skills, improve family relationships, and promote community cohesion. Thus, fundamentally supporting disaster survivors to rebuild their lives and livelihood and strengthen their resilience capacity. Although the uniqueness of the community-based environment limits self-reconstruction, this study argues that the self-reconstruction approach, as a community-driven strategy, encourages communities to develop their instruments, advancing current official adaptive social protection agendas. The bottom-up community-customized interventions will better serve disaster survivors to protect, promote, and transfer affected residents’ livelihoods and social relations; reduce their various vulnerabilities; ultimately build their resilience capacity to achieve the global priority of climate change adaptation and disaster reduction.","PeriodicalId":84928,"journal":{"name":"International journal of mass emergencies and disasters","volume":"37 1","pages":"65 - 86"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82825756","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Self-Reliance in Disaster Recovery: A Systematic Literature Review 1990–2019","authors":"R. Oloruntoba, W. Asare-Doku","doi":"10.1177/028072702103900102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/028072702103900102","url":null,"abstract":"Community and governmental agencies often address disaster recovery and resilience. However, few studies focus on how to achieve self-reliance and use the psychological resources within to be adaptive and resilient in disaster recovery. This systematic literature review explores models of self-reliance in disaster recovery and resilience in order to (1) identify the range of publications on the topic in the literature, and (2) to identify the range of constituent elements that have been proposed as contributing to the idea of self-reliance and self-help as a subset of individual psychological and trait resilience in disaster recovery contexts. The systematic literature review found three elements of individual resilience in the study: faith, religious practices, and psychological capital, all of which may contribute to self-reliance and self-help as a subset of individual psychological and trait resilience in disaster recovery. The findings of this study may assist with utilizing strengths that can improve the activation of individual response and resilience in disaster recovery contexts.","PeriodicalId":84928,"journal":{"name":"International journal of mass emergencies and disasters","volume":"1 1","pages":"11 - 42"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77588587","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sustainable Rehousing after Disasters: Learning from Post-tsunami Resettlements in Sri Lanka","authors":"K. D. Silva, Barry T. Ballinger","doi":"10.1177/028072702103900106","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/028072702103900106","url":null,"abstract":"Most post-disaster resettlement projects reflect the ideals of providers (state, donors, and designers) rather than those of the displaced. Thus, most such projects ultimately failed to provide the intended benefits for their residents. This paper presents some key lessons learned from studying the planning and design decisions that housing providers (architects and donors) made when designing resettlement projects in Sri Lanka in the wake of the 2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake and Tsunami. Through interviews, this article studied five housing projects by gathering the providers’ design intentions and the residents’ feedback on their lived experiences. Findings indicate that residents of these new settlements are dissatisfied as the designs did not align with their cultural and lifestyle aspirations. The providers lacked knowledge of the community design process, the housing needs of this primarily economically disadvantaged population, and how to provide for displaced peoples. The findings of the study indicate four key lessons for sustainable resettlement designs: the need for residents’ involvement in the design process, the provision of physical and social support systems, the need for incremental growth of housing, and finally the use of appropriate building technology. These lessons would be useful for future post-disaster reconstructions, especially in the less-affluent communities around the world.","PeriodicalId":84928,"journal":{"name":"International journal of mass emergencies and disasters","volume":"281 4 1","pages":"120 - 172"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86575218","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Multidisciplinary Perspectives of Micro Human Efforts in Post-Disaster Recovery","authors":"Chamila Subasinghe, M. Sutrisna, O. Olatunji","doi":"10.1177/028072702103900101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/028072702103900101","url":null,"abstract":"This seminal discourse on a phenomenon called “micro-human efforts” sheds light on specific human capacities that assist in sustainable disaster recovery at various geospatial scales. It focuses on the efforts made by individuals that develop into collective measures and the establishment of a new status quo. Typically, these efforts tend to sweep away from the core to the peripheries of recovery programs due to their innate vulnerabilities to systemic limitations and consequent distortions. Via a range of systematic research reviews and original research, this special issue narrates a series of studies that reveal a few critical attributes of a human effort-based disaster recovery model. To an extent, it synthesizes isolated multidisciplinary research with new insights to deliver a re-developmental role model that could potentially mobilize efforts of vulnerable communities in defining resilience for themselves. It further flags focus areas to lead enhanced protocols, policy recommendations, and best practice scenarios by primarily promoting a self-based recovery approach.","PeriodicalId":84928,"journal":{"name":"International journal of mass emergencies and disasters","volume":"74 1","pages":"1 - 10"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78649217","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Changed Communities and Sources of Information: A Qualitative Study about Recovery in Post-nuclear Fukushima, Japan","authors":"Allison Kwesell, Joo-Young Jung","doi":"10.1177/028072702103900107","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/028072702103900107","url":null,"abstract":"Japan's 2011 earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster are still in the recovery process. Though buildings and infrastructure have been reconstructed, socio-psychological recoveries have been ongoing and indefinite. Residents from coastal villages along Fukushima Prefecture have dealt with mass deaths, loss of land, high exposure to radioactive nuclides, and forced evacuations, while communities across the entire prefecture have been altered by global perceptions and demographically with an influx of evacuees. This qualitative study examines long-form survey answers from 123 respondents from eight different areas of Fukushima. Findings suggest that in post-nuclear Fukushima, connection to individuals in the changed community environment, community support, and the ability to confide in neighbors about experiences has been hindered. In addition, a presence of internal stigma, tensions concerning unfair compensation, uneasiness about a lack of information from media, a hesitation to talk about the disaster, and continued indicators of PTSD remain. Though past research has examined a global Fukushima stigma and the effects it has on residents, until now none has examined the internal stigmas residents have toward each other and the effects they have on the community. Through examining the social situation in post-nuclear Fukushima, this research stands as an important contribution to better understanding the social and socio-psychological strains that may be hindering a full recovery from disaster.","PeriodicalId":84928,"journal":{"name":"International journal of mass emergencies and disasters","volume":"424 1","pages":"173 - 198"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78173531","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Acknowledgments","authors":"","doi":"10.21019/9781582123714.acknowledgments","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21019/9781582123714.acknowledgments","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":84928,"journal":{"name":"International journal of mass emergencies and disasters","volume":"19 15-16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78146315","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Suzanne Clark, Justin K Loden, S. Howart, S. Normann
{"title":"Chapter 5: Disaster Response and Countermeasures – Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and Explosives","authors":"Suzanne Clark, Justin K Loden, S. Howart, S. Normann","doi":"10.21019/9781582123714.ch5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21019/9781582123714.ch5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":84928,"journal":{"name":"International journal of mass emergencies and disasters","volume":"47 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88745923","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Chapter 9: Ethical and Legal Implications and Advocacy Related to Disasters and Emergencies","authors":"E. Rosenberg, Lucas A. Berenbrok, Hoai-An Truong","doi":"10.21019/9781582123714.ch9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21019/9781582123714.ch9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":84928,"journal":{"name":"International journal of mass emergencies and disasters","volume":"68 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84065430","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}