Rethinking Risk and Preparedness (Risk & Disaster TIG)

Rethinking Risk and Preparedness (Risk & Disaster

TIG)

 

CHAIR: CANNON, Terry (IDS UK)

BALAGNA, Jay (Pardee RAND Grad Sch) Stuck in

the Smokey Bear Era: Examining the Ways Cultural

Processes Contribute to Disaster Policy and Wildland Fire

DYER, Christopher (UNM) Building Disaster Resilience:

Application of the CART Model in Rural North Carolina

DOERING, Zach (Butler U) Building Community

Resiliency against Disasters

CANNON, Terry (IDS UK) Is Disaster Risk Creation

More Significant Than Risk Reduction?

JINKA, Malavika and BARO, Mamadou (U Arizona)

Rethinking Resilience in Senegalese Communities:

Insights from the COVID-19 Crisis

 

CANNON, Terry (IDS UK) Is Disaster Risk Creation More Significant Than Risk

Reduction? Most research and practice in disaster risk reduction (DRR) is based

on the assumption that it reduces vulnerability or mitigate hazards. Research

is supposedly ‘taken up’ by governments and relevant institutions and used to

inform DRR policy. Donors, NGOs and other actors supposedly engage in activities

that reduce disaster risk. This session upsets these comforting assumptions. It

argues that government and the private sector are much more likely to create

disasters than to reduce them. Understanding that Disaster Risk Creation (DRC)

is more significant than the efforts of academics and organizations to reduce

disasters is essential.

 

Session took place in Cincinnati, OH at the 83rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2023.