... and needs of marginalized groups into disaster risk reduction efforts. Cascadia Oregon Resilience Disaster Hazard Latinx Inequality Vulnerability Social Networks Assets Marginalized Vulnerable groups, including racial and ethnic minorities and low-income populations...

...Paul Chipangura; Dewald van Niekerk; Fortune Mangara; Annegrace Zembe Purpose This study aimed to address the underexplored domain of organisational vulnerability, with a specific focus on understanding how vulnerability is understood in organisations and the underlying pathways leading...

... with diverse knowledge systems and situated practices to develop meaningful disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate adaptation strategies. Our approach has to be rooted in the lived experiences of various vulnerable groups, their entanglements with nature and their everyday struggles of interacting...

...Dorothea Hilhorst Purpose The transcript takes you on a journey of the book mapping vulnerability and the developments thereafter. Design/methodology/approach The transcript and video was developed in the context of a United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) project...

... across the household survey sample using these preexisting vulnerabilities. Findings The investigation found that households that mainly relied upon piped water sources and experienced inconsistent access to water in the year prior to Cyclone Idai were more likely to experience disrupted drinking...

... in the late 70s and went on. When you live in a country like the Philippines, where all possible disasters could happen, you can't get away from it. As an activist, I was concerned about the situation of my people due to the issues of poverty, marginalization and vulnerabilities. When hazards strike...

... on the history of DRR. Findings The interview traces the development of disaster risk reduction discussions in different contexts such as “LA RED” network in Latin America. Originality/value The interview clearly highlights the need to not forget the early thoughts on vulnerability and disaster risk...

...Jason M. Pudlo; William Curtis Ellis; Ernest B. McGowen, III Purpose The paper seeks to explore the drivers of disaster planning in African-American households. While the paper is exploratory, the authors attempt to dialogue with substantial theoretical and applied research around vulnerability...

...Zulema Álvarez; Tristia Bauman; Amite Dominick; Tony Messenger; Carlee Purdam; Jamie Vickery Purpose This conversation focuses on the reproduction of vulnerability incarceration and homelessness and presents the reflections of scholars, writers, activists and practitioners. Design/methodology...

...Emmanuel Raju; Chandni Singh; Hanna Geschewski Purpose This conversation presents reflections on heatwaves, vulnerability and adaptation in South Asia. Design/methodology/approach This is based on the Nordic Asia Podcast on Temperatures on the Rise: Adapting to Heat Extremes in South Asia...

...Jason von Meding; Ksenia Chmutina Purpose Vulnerability is a label and a concept that is widely used in disaster studies. To date the meaning has been quite limited and implied “weakness”, with criticisms arising periodically but not halting vulnerability's reproduction. In this paper, the authors...

... key concepts in disaster studies—agency, local scale, memory and vulnerability—are interrupted, and how these interruptions offer new perspectives for doing disaster research from and for the South. Design/methodology/approach Meta-analysis of case studies and revision of past and current...

... employees and children) to visualize and interpret local hazards, vulnerabilities, capacities and risk mitigation measures. Findings Participants played with a 3D model, using it to express their memories about land use changes in the city and to share their knowledge about past disasters with children...

... to solve these problems through the development of extensible, internally consistent schemas for risk-related data. Design/methodology/approach The consortia coordinated their efforts so the hazard, exposure and vulnerability schemas are compatible. Hazard data can be provided as either event...

...Oumaima Bennani; Ernest Druon; Frédéric Leone; Yves Tramblay; Mohamed El Mehdi Saidi Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify vulnerable areas for flood hazard and to analyze stakes exposed in touristic valley of Morrocan mountains. The three goals are: methodological (low-cost diagnosis...

... management Disaster risk reduction Civil protection Community resilience Vulnerability Community empowerment Disaster governance Transformative knowledge The 6 April 2009 earthquake in L’Aquila, Italy, drew the attention of scientists all over the world for various reasons. One...

...Bethany Lee Van Brown; Albert M. Kopak; Hannah Marie Hinkel Purpose The purpose of this paper is twofold: first, to argue that substance use is a real risk for people who experience disaster, and especially so for socially vulnerable populations; second, to incorporate questions that help measure...

... and action on disasters by facilitating critical exercises in reframing that facilitate dialog across difference. The authors present a series of arguments on the social production and construction of disaster and advocate putting these constructs in dialog with vulnerability frameworks of the social...

... carried out with residents in flood-prone neighbourhoods and municipal authorities on the state of recurrent floods including mitigating strategies being implemented. Findings The results revealed that Maroua has a fragile ecological setting which has increased the vulnerability of the town to flood...

... of topics and methods associated with the concepts vulnerability and resilience in the context of civil protection. As Patrick Pigeon puts it a daunting challenge. We are glad that this challenge seems to be met successfully. To our understanding, a further benefit of the Atlas VR is to give...