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Brilliant work! Thank you. I will use one section in class today. Kristina J. PetersonLowlander CenterSupporting Lowland People and Placesthrough Education, and applied Researchwww.lowlandercenter.org304.266.2517"Between Now and Then": Tackling the Conundrum of Climate Change" Canadian Risk and Hazards Newsletter, Vol. 5, No.1, Fall, 2013, pg. 5.http://207.23.111.231/sites/default/files/library/HazNet_2013-10_v5n1.pdf Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 11:35:16 -0400 From: [log in to unmask] Subject: 2014 WDR: Culture and Risk & Link with (input to) GAR 2015??? To: [log in to unmask] Brilliant and oh-so-needed work, Terry (Lisa, Greg & Fred)! Have you already provided some insights from all this compilation and analysis to the team putting together GAR 2015? Are any of you involved as reviewers of GAR 2015? I image the answer is yes to both questions; however, as the review of GAR 2015's zero draft is in full swing (deadline 29 October), it would be great if cultural aspects of DRR could be further reinforced in the GAR (along with broader gender issues including political and economic power relations, voice, political space). This something your team could do, and certainly others who are participants in GDN. I am half way though GAR 2015 zero draft chapters, and, while hard hitting, critical and solid, the report concentrates in just a few places gender (and cultural themes such as local knowledge -- which is also highly political, of course). These issues are not fully diffused throughout GAR 2015 as cross cutting themes. It's not too late to do something about that. All the best and thanks for your hard work, BEN -----Original Message----- From: Terry Cannon Sent: Oct 16, 2014 12:09 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: 2014 World Disasters Report: Culture and Risk World Disasters Report 2014 on the topic Culture and Risk This report has been launched today and is free to download at: http://www.ifrc.org/en/publications-and-reports/world-disasters-report/world-disasters-report-2014/ Do see the introductory animation near the bottom of that page. There are also summaries in French, Arabic and Spanish, as well as English. The report argues for the importance of understanding two types of culture: people’s cultures and beliefs that may hamper (and sometimes support) disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation, and also organizational culture: beliefs and behaviours of organizations that are barriers to effective DRR. It shows how clashes between these two cultures can produce problems and ineffective preparedness and response. It illustrates these problems with chapters on shelter and construction, and on health and HIV/AIDS. Many of the lessons are relevant for the current Ebola disaster in West Africa. The report also challenges the way that organizations use the notion of ‘community’ as a framing for DRR and community-based adaptation (CBA), despite the internal conflict, exploitation and exploitation that characterises so-called communities, and the lack of evidence that collaborative activities always work. It also argues that one of the fundamental clashes of culture between organizations and people is the failure of organizations to acknowledge the reasons (especially livelihoods) that lead people to live in hazard-prone and dangerous places. The report is being launched in the UK on Monday 20 October at ODI (registration required: http://www.odi.org/events/4024-launch-world-disasters-report-2014-focus-culture-risk The meeting will be broadcast on the web (with the opportunity to ask questions), and can be viewed on the internet afterwards. It will be introduced by the lead editor/author Terry Cannon. The other editors are Lisa Schipper (co- lead editor), Greg Bankoff and Fred Krüger. The four have been working on the topic for around five years, and have hosted two conferences in Germany in 2011 and 2013, from which an academic book will be published in 2015: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415745604/ For questions contact Terry Cannon (Institute of Development Studies, UK) [log in to unmask] or Lisa Schipper [log in to unmask] or Greg E Bankoff [log in to unmask] or Krüger, Fred [log in to unmask] This message is for the addressee only and may contain privileged or confidential information. 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