{"title":"Personal and Institutional Timelines for Hurricane Preparedness, Recovery and Mitigation","authors":"Alessandra Jerolleman, Jerry V. Graves","doi":"10.1177/028072702003800105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/028072702003800105","url":null,"abstract":"Institutional and personal timelines are constantly placed in tension by hurricanes, from decisions regarding preparedness and evacuation, to recovery and hazard mitigation decisions. Government timelines for evacuation, for example, must allow sufficient time for the large scale movement of a population; but, individually, evacuation timelines are impacted by a myriad of personal decisions including caregiving concerns and employment concerns, both of which tend to push the decision making window further out. Another example is in recovery, where institutional timelines for recovery assistance, spread out across several agencies and timescales, do not readily align with personal and family decision-making timelines in which returning to a sense of normalcy is prioritized highest. These varying timelines result in complications with the marrying of various sources of assistance and lead to both unnecessary confusion and also missed opportunities to maximize recovery assistance. In hazard mitigation, the fact that the majority of funds are available after damages have occurred already creates an inverted timeline in which preventative actions are taken after the fact, but the delays inherent to the management of the programs also create extensive delays to family recovery timelines.","PeriodicalId":84928,"journal":{"name":"International journal of mass emergencies and disasters","volume":"12 1","pages":"77 - 88"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85162923","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":"On Seeing and Listening: How to Better Support Affected Communities before the Disaster Starts","authors":"Alexa S. Dietrich","doi":"10.1177/028072702003800102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/028072702003800102","url":null,"abstract":"This article draws on insights from disaster anthropology and medical anthropology, using examples from community-based research after Post-Tropical Cyclone Sandy on Staten Island, and after Hurricanes Irma and Maria in Puerto Rico, illustrating how lack of cultural knowledge and contextual “not seeing” hampers both emergency response and longer term recovery efforts. Using these two distinct examples, it reveals underlying biases within the culture of emergency management that hamper agency effectiveness. It then makes recommendations as to how emergency management personnel can work to overcome these biases, and quickly obtain and incorporate previously unfamiliar information about local context. Building equitable partnerships with local organizations and networks will better support disaster preparedness, emergency response, and recovery efforts.","PeriodicalId":84928,"journal":{"name":"International journal of mass emergencies and disasters","volume":"161 1","pages":"13 - 42"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86458917","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":"Mitigating Disaster in Digital Space: DiaspoRicans Organizing after Hurricane Maria","authors":"Melinda González","doi":"10.1177/028072702003800103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/028072702003800103","url":null,"abstract":"As Puerto Ricans lived facing increasing precarity after Hurricane Maria, DiaspoRicans (Puerto Ricans living outside of Puerto Rico) rushed to get aid to their relatives. A lack of trust in the local government and Congress’ refusal to lift the 1920 Merchant Marines Act limited direct international aid. This fueled narratives of genocide intersecting with relief efforts. In this article, I use digital ethnography and ethnographic interviews to discuss how and why DiaspoRicans engaged in grassroots recovery efforts through social media. I conclude with discussing the challenges of digital organizing faced by community organizers in Puerto Rico in the immediate aftermath of the hurricane and the potential contributions of digital research as catastrophic weather events increase.","PeriodicalId":84928,"journal":{"name":"International journal of mass emergencies and disasters","volume":"6 1","pages":"43 - 53"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82528020","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":"Is it Time to Move Away? How Hurricanes Affect Future Plans","authors":"M. Welch-Devine, B. Orland","doi":"10.1177/028072702003800104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/028072702003800104","url":null,"abstract":"Using surveys and interviews in the aftermath of Hurricanes Matthew and Irma, we investigated people's reasons for living on the coast of Georgia, their expectations for the future, and their intentions to stay in place or migrate away from the coast. We found that age, income, and ethnicity all play small but significant roles in determining intention to migrate, but that more intangible elements such as changes in quality of life or lifestyle may be more important. Many residents indicated a preference for remaining close if they were to permanently leave their homes, and residents were more likely to indicate a preference for staying in place after Irma than after Matthew. Residents may have many reasons for becoming more reluctant to move – complacency borne out of repeated “near misses”, increased awareness of the likely costs and inconvenience of re-location, or the realization that specific impacts are highly variable—making responses by coastal planners and managers more challenging.","PeriodicalId":84928,"journal":{"name":"International journal of mass emergencies and disasters","volume":"3126 1","pages":"54 - 76"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86560023","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}
Roberto E. Barrios, Grace Vargas, Raja Swamy, T. Tran, Irene Martinez, Mayra Sierra
{"title":"Interpreting Catastrophe: An Examination of Houston's Many Voices in the Aftermath of Hurricane Harvey","authors":"Roberto E. Barrios, Grace Vargas, Raja Swamy, T. Tran, Irene Martinez, Mayra Sierra","doi":"10.1177/028072702003800107","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/028072702003800107","url":null,"abstract":"For more than four decades now, social scientists have understood disasters as temporally prolonged processes in which human practices enhance the socially disruptive and materially destructive capacities of geophysical phenomena, technological “accidents,” and epidemics. This approach has come to be known as vulnerability theory in the realm of disaster risk management and it is closely related to the political-ecological analytical approach in the social sciences. Because of the analytical power of vulnerability theory and political ecology, some social scientists have gone so far as to call disasters “revelatory crises” that illuminate the political economic conditions that give catastrophes their form and magnitude. Although vulnerability theory and political ecology are certainly powerful analytical vantage points, they are not necessarily the perspectives through which the various social actors interpellated by catastrophes interpret calamity. This article explores the question “what does Hurricane Harvey reveal for whom?” in Houston Texas, and examines the implications the various responses to this question on the part of Houstonians of various socio-economic backgrounds and political positioning have for disaster risk reduction in the U.S. Gulf Coast.","PeriodicalId":84928,"journal":{"name":"International journal of mass emergencies and disasters","volume":"43 1","pages":"121 - 143"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88874740","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}
B. Ahmed, I. Kelman, Debasish Roy Raja, M. Islam, S. Das, M. Shamsudduha, M. Fordham
{"title":"Livelihood Impacts of Flash Floods in Cox's Bazar District, Bangladesh","authors":"B. Ahmed, I. Kelman, Debasish Roy Raja, M. Islam, S. Das, M. Shamsudduha, M. Fordham","doi":"10.1177/028072701903700304","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/028072701903700304","url":null,"abstract":"This article aims to understand local views and understandings of livelihood impacts of flash floods, and how to tackle the challenges. The work is completed through case studies of two villages in Cox's Bazar District in south-east Bangladesh, Manirjhil and Chotojamchori. Based in theoretical understandings from disaster research of how underlying conditions rather than hazards cause disasters, this empirical study combined household surveys and participatory rural appraisal (PRA) techniques for collecting field data. The results detail local perspectives of underlying conditions—namely poverty, inequity, precarious livelihoods, and few contingency options—impacting livelihoods, especially highlighting food, water, disease, and migration, all of which link directly to livelihoods. A significant concern is the need to take out loans which can contribute to continuing poverty. Suggested strategies for dealing with flash flood impacts were based in local contexts and did not always account for broader remits, such as the deep-seated gendered nature of societal roles in Bangladesh or power and governance structures within the Bangladeshi context.","PeriodicalId":84928,"journal":{"name":"International journal of mass emergencies and disasters","volume":"1 1","pages":"306 - 326"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91316167","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":"K.A.P.S.: A Disaster Training Approach for High-Risk Communities","authors":"Joy Semien, Earthea Nance","doi":"10.1177/028072701903700302","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/028072701903700302","url":null,"abstract":"Communities along the US Gulf Coast are at high risk of natural and human-caused hazards. We developed a disaster training designed to increase Knowledge, Attitude, Preparedness, and Skills (K.A.P.S). We held a series of six identical training sessions in Geismar, Louisiana, a community that faces multiple hazards. Residents (n = 34) were trained using a community-tailored approach that combined constructivist (hands-on) and traditional (lecture) methods of instruction. Pre-test and post-test surveys demonstrated that the instructional content was effective (p < .01), and that individual preparedness knowledge increased significantly because of the constructivist teaching approach (p < .05). The results indicate that this high-hazard setting called for more extensive instructional content, constructivist teaching methods, and the inclusion of residents at all education levels.","PeriodicalId":84928,"journal":{"name":"International journal of mass emergencies and disasters","volume":"1 1","pages":"264 - 285"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82177653","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":"Book Review: Review of Fracking the Neighborhood: Reluctant Activists and Natural Gas Drilling","authors":"Lisa McDevitt","doi":"10.1177/028072701903700306","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/028072701903700306","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":84928,"journal":{"name":"International journal of mass emergencies and disasters","volume":"74 1","pages":"332 - 335"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87084291","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":"Book Review: Review of Humanitarian Aftershocks in Haiti","authors":"Z. Bullock","doi":"10.1177/028072701903700305","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/028072701903700305","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":84928,"journal":{"name":"International journal of mass emergencies and disasters","volume":"21 1","pages":"327 - 331"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79711355","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}
Jennifer J. Haney, Claire Havice, Jerry T. Mitchell
{"title":"Science or Fiction: The Persistence of Disaster Myths in Hollywood Films","authors":"Jennifer J. Haney, Claire Havice, Jerry T. Mitchell","doi":"10.1177/028072701903700303","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/028072701903700303","url":null,"abstract":"Hollywood continues to be both profitable and successful in attracting audiences to witness displays of death and destruction on the silver screen. Tornadoes, earthquakes, tsunami hazards, and climate change are among the most recent hazards portrayed in disaster films. The purpose of our research was to systematically collect and analyze physical, social, and temporal data from twelve disaster films to build upon past studies examining the portrayal of disaster. Our findings indicate a clear shift from those identified in earlier studies, with disaster myths (e.g. the importance of death tolls; technology as the only solution) appearing more than previously. Further, current trends in the disaster film genre indicate a shift toward unpredictable, widespread events and a defenseless humanity.","PeriodicalId":84928,"journal":{"name":"International journal of mass emergencies and disasters","volume":"305 1","pages":"286 - 305"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78346548","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}