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- Title
- Operational challenges to community participation in post-disaster damage assessments : observations from Fiji
- Related
- Disasters, Vol. 34, No. 4 (2010), p.1102-1122
- DOI
- 10.1111/j.1467-7717.2010.01185.x
- Publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell
- Date
- 2010
- FoR/RFCD Code(s)
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150000 Commerce, Management, Tourism And Services
- Author/Creator
- Méheux, Kirstie
- Author/Creator
- Dominey-Howes, Dale
- Author/Creator
- Lloyd, Kate
- Description
- Community participation is becoming increasingly popular within the field of disaster management. International disaster policies, frameworks and charters embrace the notion that communities should play an active role in initiatives to identify vulnerabilities and risks and to mitigate those dangers, and, in the event of a disaster, that they should play a proactive part in response and recovery (see, for example, UNISDR, 1994; The Sphere Project, 2004; United Nations, 2005). A number of studies have investigated the participation of communities in disaster preparedness and mitigation efforts (see, for instance, Scott-Villiers, 2000; Andharia, 2002; Godschalk, Brody and Burby, 2003), There is, however, limited reflection on the challenges to ensuring participation in the operational context of disaster response. This paper draws on a study of the policy and practice of participatory damage assessment in Fiji to identify and discuss the barriers to formal implementation of community participation in a post-disaster context.
- Description
- 21 page(s)
- Subject Keyword
- 150000 Commerce, Management, Tourism And Services
- Subject Keyword
- community participation
- Subject Keyword
- damage assessment
- Subject Keyword
- damage management
- Subject Keyword
- Fiji
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Organisation
- Macquarie University. Dept. of Environment and Geography
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/126301
- Identifier
- ISSN:1467-7717
- Identifier
- mq-rm-2010004928
- Language
- eng
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