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Dear Stefanie and Radixers,
I am, and I feel that Gunnar Hagman, Anders Wijkman and Lloyd Timberlake are pleased to see the cycle of disasters and its follow ups deliberately places inside and outside silos being phased out by more and more people. The calls for reducing the risk to populations and their associated economic and social infrastructure from natural hazard events created by development have a history going back some 35 years in development circles.
I believe that comments about mainstreaming risk reduction into development must also pass away. Risk to natural hazard events is part and parcel of creating, in the name of development or otherwise, the built environment. Presently most risk management takes place out of sight and out of mind of most of the population, and often this happens deliberately and for a profit motive. Add to this arrogance, ignorance, malice of intent, and holding other values than dealing with risk to natural hazards in higher regard, and one sees that behavior, not lack of science and technology, thwart and ignore risk reduction measures to most cases.
Steve Bender
“When a disaster has occurred, development agencies have regarded it as a nuisance and tried to avoid becoming involved; or even worse, the risk of existing or new potential hazards has been over-looked in the planning and implementation of some development activities. It is now being observed that intensive development may be the cause of many new disasters in poor countries.” Gunnar Hagman 1984
“. . . most disaster problems are unsolved development problems. Disaster prevention and mitigation is thus primarily an aspect of development.”
Anders Wijkman and Lloyd Timberlake 1984
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.htmlSee 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/58772Hope this helps.Cheers,StefanieOn Jun 27, 2018, at 3:32 AM, Jonatan Lassa <[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.
--Jonatan Lassa, Ph.D.
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