Dear Jonathan,
 
yes, in a way the classical disaster management cycle got "retired". This is based on the outcomes of the Global Assessement Report from 2015: https://www.preventionweb.net/english/hyogo/gar/2015/en/home/index.html
 
See also attached a figure with the title "From managing disasters to managing risks". The 2nd slide is now what is being promoted more widlely.
Emergeny management ("Managing disasters") evolved into disaster RISK management on the basis of the disaster management cycle (1st slide):
  • syncretic evalution from response to include prepardness, recovery, risk reduction
  • increased commitment under Hyogo Framework for Action
  • protect development against disasters (as exogenous events)
  • sector has evolved in something of a silo
In order to facilitate the development of sustainablity meant there is a need to change the approach to DRM: The focus has to move from managing diasters (protecting old development paradigm agains external threats) to managing risks inside development.  Disaster risk and climate change are both dependent variables of development. Therefore, risk managment cuts across and algins all three global frameworks (SDGs, Climate Change, Sendai).
 
Risk management has now to become not an add-on that needs to be mainstreamed into development but a set of pracices embedded in tis very DNA.
 
Three approaches to DRM: preventing and avoiding new risks, reducing existing risks, strengthening social and economic resilience need to be combined in appropriate strategies.
 
Again... all came out of the GAR 2015 discussions and is currently followed up on the Global Risk Assessment Framework (GRAF) discussions: https://www.unisdr.org/archive/58772
 
Hope this helps.
Cheers,
Stefanie
 
 
On Jun 27, 2018, at 3:32 AM, Jonatan Lassa <[log in to unmask]'; return false;" target="_blank">[log in to unmask]> wrote:

 

Hallo Radix folks,

 

I am curious to know whether UNISDR has (indirectly) declared the retirement of the concept of DM cycles.

 

It is simply not listed in the ISDR Glossary - https://www.unisdr.org/we/inform/terminology.

 

Dont get me wrong. It is a serendipity for me as I am glad that cyclical thinking can be pushed to retire. As a teacher, it has been difficult to correct students' language suround the die hard terminologies such as natural disasters and disaster cycles. And I was very glad to see ISDR Website clearly argue that no such things as natural disasters.

 

Going back to disaster cycle or disaster management cycle stuff, I am keen for an explanation if DM cycle concept is turned off with purpose?

 

Why am I asking this? Well for practical reasons. I am in the middle of writing a policy document and I am trying to use something more practical that could be understood by policy makers. However, an exellent reviewer advocates ISDR glossary of terms (which is in my favor).

 

Thanks heaps.

 

 

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