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Demography | Family and Household Studies | Migration | Demography not elsewhere classified
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Cultural Understanding not elsewhere classified | Climate Change Adaptation Measures | Climate and Climate Change not elsewhere classified |
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Publications
The school community contributes to how children cope effectively with a disaster
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 08-06-2020
Global risks: Pool knowledge to stem losses from disasters
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 06-2015
DOI: 10.1038/522277A
Communicating model uncertainty for natural hazards: A qualitative systematic thematic review
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2019
Community Disaster Resilience: a Systematic Review on Assessment Models and Tools
Publisher: Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Date: 2015
Nandong smong and tsunami lullabies: Song and music as an effective communication tool in disaster risk reduction
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2021
Modeling the social resilience of mountain communities under volcanic risks
Publisher: IEEE
Date: 10-2009
A theoretical framework for negotiating the path of emergency management multi-agency coordination
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2015
DOI: 10.1016/J.APERGO.2014.10.014
Abstract: Multi-agency coordination represents a significant challenge in emergency management. The need for liaison officers working in strategic level emergency operations centres to play organizational boundary spanning roles within multi-agency coordination arrangements that are enacted in complex and dynamic emergency response scenarios creates significant research and practical challenges. The aim of the paper is to address a gap in the literature regarding the concept of multi-agency coordination from a human-environment interaction perspective. We present a theoretical framework for facilitating multi-agency coordination in emergency management that is grounded in human factors and ergonomics using the methodology of core-task analysis. As a result we believe the framework will enable liaison officers to cope more efficiently within the work domain. In addition, we provide suggestions for extending the theory of core-task analysis to an alternate high reliability environment.
Disaster preparedness: A social-cognitive perspective
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 08-2003
DOI: 10.1108/09653560310480686
Abstract: Despite considerable effort and expenditure on public hazard education, levels of disaster preparedness remain low. By integrating and expanding on natural hazards and health research on protective behaviour, this paper proposes a social cognitive model of disaster preparedness. The model describes a developmental process that commences with factors that motivate people to prepare, progresses through the formation of intentions, and culminates in decisions to prepare. Following their critical appraisal, variables implicated at each stage are identified and their role in the preparedness process described. The implications of the model for the conceptualisation and assessment of preparedness is discussed, as is its implications for risk reduction and communication strategies.
Risk, Resilience, and Readiness: Developing an All-Hazards Perspective
Publisher: Elsevier
Date: 2014
Associating Factors With Public Preparedness Behavior Against Earthquake: A Review of Iranian Research Literature
Publisher: Negah Scientific Publisher
Date: 2018
Stress in disaster response: a risk management approach
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 08-2003
DOI: 10.1108/09653560310480677
Abstract: Using a risk management framework, this paper discusses an approach to conceptualising disaster stress risk that can be used to develop readiness strategies that facilitate an adaptive response to disaster stress in emergency managers. It illustrates this process by describing how incident, operational and organisational demands interact with resilience and vulnerability factors to affect stress risk during the mobilisation, response and reintegration phases of disaster response. It argues for stress risk management to be integrated with the application of the risk management paradigm to other aspects of disaster management.
Predictors of south-eastern Australian householders' strengths of intentions to self-evacuate if a wildfire threatens: Two theoretical models
Publisher: CSIRO Publishing
Date: 2014
DOI: 10.1071/WF13219
Abstract: Householder evacuation in the face of a wildfire threat is the survival option advocated by fire agencies. However, late evacuation is common and has resulted in loss of life. The primary aim of this study was to investigate potential predictors of householders’ strength of intention to leave early in response to a bushfire threat warning. A survey of 584 residents of bushfire-prone locations in south-eastern Australia was conducted. Theory of planned behaviour (TPB) and protection motivation theory (PMT) were used to explore predictors of strength of householders’ intentions to leave, or to stay and defend following a bushfire warning. TPB was a useful predictor of strength of intention to leave, but PMT was not such a useful predictor of strength of intention to leave. Householder efficacy and self-characterisation were important contributors, whereas perceptions of severity and susceptibility to threat were not found to be significant contributors. Neither model performed well in predicting strength of intention to stay and defend. The findings are discussed in relation to community wildfire safety research and practice.
Job and Employee Embeddings: A Joint Deep Learning Approach
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Date: 2022
Considering the implications of place-based approaches for improving rural community wellbeing: The value of a relational lens
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 10-2014
Digital participation: Engaging diverse and marginalised communities
Publisher: ACM Press
Date: 2016
Uncertainty and decision making: Volcanic crisis scenarios
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2014
CONSIDERING THE IMPLICATIONS OF PLACE-BASED APPROACHES FOR IMPROVING RURAL COMMUNITY WELLBEING: THE VALUE OF A RELATIONAL LENS
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 27-06-2014
Measuring Tsunami Preparedness in Coastal Washington, United States
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 05-2005
Disaster risk reduction: Psychological perspectives on preparedness
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-2019
DOI: 10.1111/AJPY.12237
Managing Tsunami Risk: Social Context Influences on Preparedness
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 05-2009
DOI: 10.1375/PRP.3.1.27
Abstract: This article describes the testing of a model that proposes that people's beliefs regarding the effectiveness of hazard preparedness interact with social context factors (community participation, collective efficacy, empowerment and trust) to influence levels of hazard preparedness. Using data obtained from people living in coastal communities in Alaska and Oregon that are susceptible to experiencing tsunami, structural equation modelling analyses confirmed the ability of the model to help account for differences in levels of tsunami preparedness. Analysis revealed that community members and civic agencies influence preparedness in ways that are independent of the information provided per se. The model suggests that, to encourage people to prepare, outreach strategies must (a) encourage community members to discuss tsunami hazard issues and to identify the resources and information they need to deal with the consequences a tsunami would pose for them and (b) ensure that the community-agency relationship is complementary and empowering.
The perception of volcanic risk in Kona communities from Mauna Loa and Hualālai volcanoes, Hawai‵i
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2004
Role Clarity, Swift Trust and Multi-Agency Coordination
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 04-02-2015
Enhancing Social and Emotional Wellbeing of Aboriginal Boarding Students: Evaluation of a Social and Emotional Learning Pilot Program
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 26-01-2020
Abstract: Boarding schools can provide quality secondary education for Aboriginal students from remote Aboriginal Australian communities. However, transition into boarding school is commonly challenging for Aboriginal students as they need to negotiate unfamiliar cultural, social and learning environments whilst being separated from family and community support. Accordingly, it is critical for boarding schools to provide programs that enhance the social and emotional skills needed to meet the challenges. This study evaluated a 10-session social and emotional learning (SEL) program for Aboriginal boarders and identified contextual factors influencing its effectiveness. The study combined a pre-post quantitative evaluation using erse social and emotional wellbeing measures with 28 students between 13–15 years (10 female, 11 male, 7 unidentified) and qualitative post focus groups with 10 students and episodic interviews with four staff delivering the program. Students’ social and emotional skills significantly improved. The qualitative findings revealed improvements in students seeking and giving help, working in groups, managing conflict, being assertive and discussing cultural issues. The focus groups and interviews also identified program elements that worked best and that need improvement. Secure relationships with staff delivering the program and participation in single sex groups stood out as critical enablers. The findings lend evidence to the critical importance of collaborative design, provision and evaluation of SEL programs with Aboriginal peoples.
Predictors of community preparedness for flood in Dire-Dawa town, Eastern Ethiopia: Applying adapted version of Health Belief Model
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2016
Physical Activity and Depression in Young Adults
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2009
DOI: 10.1016/J.AMEPRE.2008.09.036
Abstract: Epidemiologic research suggests that physical activity is associated with decreased prevalence of depression. However, the relationship between physical activity accumulated in various domains and depression remains unclear. Further, previous population-based studies have predominantly utilized self-reported measures of physical activity and depression symptom subscales. Associations between physical activity in various domains (leisure, work, active commuting, yard/household) and depression were examined using both subjective and objective measures of physical activity and a diagnostic measure of depression. Analyses (conducted in 2007) included data from 1995 young adults participating in a national study (2004-2006). Physical activity was measured by self-report (International Physical Activity Questionnaire) and objectively as pedometer steps/day. Depression (DSM-IV 12-month diagnosis of major depression or dysthymic disorder) was assessed using the Composite International Diagnostic Interview. For women, moderate levels of ambulatory activity (>or=7500 steps/day) were associated with approximately 50% lower prevalence of depression compared with being sedentary ( or=1.25 hours/week) were associated with approximately 45% lower prevalence compared with the sedentary group (0 hours/week) (p trend=0.003). In contrast, high durations of work physical activity (>or=10 hours/week) were associated with an approximate twofold higher prevalence of depression compared with being sedentary (0 hours/week) (p trend=0.005). No significant associations were observed for steps/day in men or for other types of self-reported activity including total physical activity in both men and women. These findings indicate that the context in which physical activity is assessed and the measurement methods utilized are important considerations when investigating associations between physical activity and depression.
A model of household preparedness for earthquakes: how individuals make meaning of earthquake information and how this influences preparedness
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 16-06-2012
Processes of community-led social enterprise development: learning from the rural context
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 14-11-2014
DOI: 10.1093/CDJ/BSU055
Community resilience to volcanic hazard consequences
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 2001
Integrating Indigenous perspectives and community-based disaster risk reduction: A pathway for sustainable Indigenous development in Northern Pakistan
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2021
Living on the ring of fire: Perspectives on managing natural hazard risk in pacific rim countries
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 05-2009
DOI: 10.1375/PRP.3.1.1
Abstract: From the perspective of studying natural hazards, the peace and tranquillity that might be expected from a literal translation of its name does not always capture the reality of life for communities on the Pacific Rim. This reality is more readily discerned in its alter ego: the Ring of Fire. The latter leaves one in less doubt as to the hazardous circumstances likely to prevail in this region. In addition to the hazards posed by the numerous volcanoes that resulted in the ‘Ring of Fire’ appellation, communities situated around the Pacific Rim also have to contend with earthquakes, tsunami, storms, cyclones/typhoons, flood and bushfire. To this list of acute events can be added hazards of a chronic nature such as salinity, environmental degradation and sea-level rise that represent growing threats to many Pacific Rim countries. The region also faces increased risk from health-related hazards. Sydney, for ex le, has been identified as a pandemic hotspot as a result of it being a hub linking the airways of Asia and the United States.
Developing disaster management capability: an assessment centre approach
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 05-2002
DOI: 10.1108/09653560210426795
Abstract: Fundamental to disaster readiness planning is developing training strategies to compensate for the limited opportunities available for acquiring actual disaster response experience. With regard to communication, decision making and integrated emergency management response, the need to develop mental models capable of reconciling knowledge of multiple goals with the collective expertise of those responding represents a significant challenge for training. This paper explores the utility of the assessment centre as a developmental resource capable of achieving this goal. In addition to providing multiple, expertly evaluated simulations to facilitate the development and practice of specific skills, the ability of assessment centre methodology to promote tacit knowledge and self‐efficacy renders it an appropriate vehicle for developing the mental models that underpin the core disaster management competencies of situational awareness and naturalistic and team decision making.
Predictors of Intention to Prepare for Volcanic Risks in Mt Merapi, Indonesia
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 11-2009
DOI: 10.1375/PRP.3.2.47
Abstract: This article is about modelling causal-relationship factors related to disaster preparedness. A model identifying the relationships between person- and community-level factors and intention to prepare for volcanic risks is tested in communities surrounding the Mt Merapi volcano, Indonesia. The analysis extends the test of a model developed by one of the authors in an in idualistic culture, New Zealand, to members of a collectivistic culture. Using the data obtained from communities situated around Mt Merapi ( n = 322), analysis revealed that community-level (collective efficacy and community participation) and variables describing the quality of the relationship between community members and civic agencies played significant roles in predicting intentions to prepare for volcanic hazards. The analysis also revealed that in idual-level variables (outcome expectancy) were less influential compared with studies applying the model in in idualistic countries. Some policy implications related to the findings are discussed.
The Social Enterprise as a Space of Wellbeing:
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 02-11-2015
Abstract: – The purpose of this paper is to present an Australian case study and to explore how social enterprises may be conceptualised as spaces of well-being, that is the ways in which social enterprises, not explicitly delivering health services, may be producing health and well-being benefits for those who come into contact with them. – A case study in Australia is used to explore in depth the mechanisms of well-being production. Data were collected using ethnographic observation, focus groups and walking interviews. Data were analysed using thematic analysis, GIS and the lens of therapeutic assemblage. – The case study social enterprise produces well-being as integration, capability, security and therapy. The social enterprise acts as a therapeutic assemblage with well-being “spoken”, “practiced” and “felt” within the social enterprise. The ways in which well-being is generated are often linked to the productive element of enterprise – and have the potential to contribute to tackling several contemporary health challenges and inequalities relating to, for ex le, a lack of physical activity and levels of social isolation. – This paper draws on a single Australian case study but points to the need for further in-depth work in the area of social enterprise and health. – The paper advances our understanding of how social enterprises may be linked to health and well-being. It goes beyond quantification of, for ex le, number of clients helped, to consider the wider experience of well-being for those who come into contact with social enterprises.
Impacts of the 1945 and 1995-1996 Ruapehu eruptions, New Zealand: An example of increasing societal vulnerability
Publisher: Geological Society of America
Date: 05-2000
An exploration of the longer-term impacts of community participation in rural health services design
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2015
DOI: 10.1016/J.SOCSCIMED.2015.07.021
Abstract: This article explores what happened, over the longer term, after a community participation exercise to design future rural service delivery models, and considers perceptions of why more follow-up actions did or did not happen. The study, which took place in 2014, revisits three Scottish communities that engaged in a community participation research method (2008-2010) intended to design rural health services. Interviews were conducted with 22 citizens, healthcare practitioners, managers and policymakers all of whom were involved in, or knew about, the original project. Only one direct sustained service change was found - introduction of a volunteer first responder scheme in one community. Sustained changes in knowledge were found. The Health Authority that part-funded development of the community participation method, through the original project, had not adopted the new method. Community members tended to attribute lack of further impact to low participation and methods insufficiently attuned to the social nuances of very small rural communities. Managers tended to blame insufficient embedding in the healthcare system and issues around power over service change and budgets. In the absence of convincing formal community governance mechanisms for health issues, rural health practitioners tended to act as conduits between citizens and the Health Authority. The study provides new knowledge about what happens after community participation and highlights a need for more exploration.
Theory and practice disaster rescue work: The consequences for the family
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-1991
Nursing in the aftermath of disaster: Orphanage relief work in romania
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 03-1995
DOI: 10.1108/09653569510079041
Abstract: Disaster relief workers experience psychological and physical needs as a direct consequence of their disaster involvement. While this impact has been acknowledged, relatively little is known about the nature of the psychosocial demands generated by prolonged exposure. Developing both comprehensive preparatory and support programmes for relief workers will require that the nature of these demands, their impact on personnel, and their implications for disaster management are documented. Describes the experiences of a group of nurses who provided relief care in Romanian orphanages in the aftermath of the 1989 revolution in that country. Suggests that prolonged disaster exposure creates specific personal demands and operational problems. Problems were described in relation to operational practices and national issues (e.g. political and cultural factors). Describes the implications of these factors for relief worker wellbeing and relief operation effectiveness, together with suggestions for managing these demands.
Community responses to communication campaigns for influenza A (H1N1): a focus group study
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 19-03-2012
Flooding in The Netherlands: How people's interpretation of personal, social and institutional resources influence flooding preparedness
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2017
A bottom-up approach to developing a neighbourhood-based resilience measurement framework
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 23-02-2018
Abstract: As disaster resilience activities are increasingly occurring at the neighbourhood level, there is a growing recognition in research and in practice of the contributions that community stakeholders can make in assessing the resilience of their communities. The purpose of this paper is to describe the process in deriving a disaster resilience measurement framework by soliciting the perspectives of stakeholders from urban neighbourhoods in two countries. The authors examined their community values, and their perspectives on both the concept of resilience and the essential elements that they believe would contribute to the resiliency of their neighbourhoods. The authors used an appreciative inquiry approach to draw out the perspectives of 58 stakeholders from nine focus groups in five urban neighbourhoods in New Zealand and in the USA. Results of this research show common values and recurring perceived characteristics of disaster resilience across the study sites. A neighbourhood-based disaster resilience measurement framework is developed that encompasses in idual sychological, socio-cultural, economic, infrastructural/built, and institutional/governance dimensions of disaster resilience. In the process of developing the framework, the authors identified challenges in engaging certain segments of the population and in accounting for wider structural influences on neighbourhood resilience. Issues relating to inclusive community engagement and linkages to cross-scalar resilience factors need to be addressed in future studies. Results of this research provide insights and guidance for policy makers and practitioners when engaging communities in the development of resilience metrics. This study fills the literature gap in evaluating community values and stakeholders’ perspectives on disaster resilience when identifying metrics for resilience interventions in urban neighbourhoods. The proposed measurement framework is derived from cross-cultural and erse socioeconomic settings.
The predictors of earthquake preparedness in Tehran households
Publisher: Knowledge Kingdom Publishing
Date: 25-03-2018
DOI: 10.19082/6478
Nurses working in healthcare facilities during natural disasters: a qualitative enquiry
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 06-08-2020
DOI: 10.1111/INR.12614
Abstract: To explore the ability of nurses to be adequately ready for and to respond to a disaster caused by a natural hazard. During a disaster involving a healthcare facility, nurses are commonly the largest group of healthcare workers impacted. The range of problems facing nurses working in healthcare facilities in Australia and New Zealand at the time of disasters triggered by earthquakes and bushfires have been underexamined. A qualitative enquiry was used to explore matters facing nurses working in residential healthcare facilities during a natural disaster. Inductive thematic analysis was used to identify the key themes from fifteen in-depth interviews with nurses. Participants preserved a robust sense of professional duty, personal obligation and responsibility to their family, patients and the facility, demonstrating the ability to adapt, cope and respond despite experiencing erse personal, structural and organizational barriers. Support was provided for using interactive systems and socio-ecological frameworks to better understand the contributions that in iduals, teams and organizations make to facilitate the development and maintenance of adaptive capacity and resilience in a nursing workforce. An ecological model of adaptive capacity can be operationalized to guide education, training for nurses and the development of organizational systems and strategies. This study identified factors that help and hinder a nursing workforce's ability to prepared for, adapt to and learn from natural hazard disasters. This understanding of disaster preparedness and how this may be applied to enable the growth of adaptive nurses provides an insight for a global audience which also adds to nurse education, service delivery, organizational and policy development.
Comparing ship versus plane-based personnel movement of Australian Antarctic expeditioners
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2017
What's in a name? “Smong” and the sustaining of risk communication and DRR behaviours as evocation fades
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2020
HCV reinfection after HCV therapy among HIV/HCV‐coinfected individuals in Europe
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 09-12-2021
DOI: 10.1111/HIV.13212
Abstract: Although direct‐acting antivirals (DAAs) can clear HCV in nearly all HIV/HCV‐coinfected in iduals, high rates of reinfection may h er efforts to eliminate HCV in this population. We investigated reinfection after sustained virological response (SVR) in HIV/HCV‐coinfected in iduals in Europe. Factors associated with odds of reinfection by 2 years after SVR in EuroSIDA participants with one or more HCV‐RNA test and 2 years follow‐up were assessed using logistic regression. Overall, 1022 in iduals were included. The median age was 50 (interquartile range: 43–54 years), and most were male (78%), injection drug users (52%), and received interferon (IFN)‐free DAAs (62%). By 24 months, 75 [7.3%, 95% confidence interval (CI): 5.7–8.9%] in iduals were reinfected. Among in iduals treated prior to 2014, 16.1% were reinfected compared with 4.2% and 8.3%, respectively, among those treated during or after 2014 with IFN‐free and IFN‐based therapy. After adjustment, in iduals who had started treatment during or after 2014 with IFN‐free or IFN‐based therapy had significantly lower odds of reinfection (adjusted odds ratio = 0.21, 95% CI: 0.11–0.38 0.43, 95% CI: 0.22–0.83) compared with those who had received therapy before 2014. There were no significant differences in odds of reinfection according to age, gender, European region, HIV transmission risk group or liver fibrosis. Among HIV/HCV‐coinfected in iduals in Europe, 7.3% were reinfected with HCV within 24 months of achieving SVR, with evidence suggesting that this is decreasing over time and with use of newer HCV regimens. Harm reduction to reduce reinfection and surveillance to detect early reinfection with an offer of treatment are essential to eliminate HCV.
Predicting police officer job satisfaction: Traditional versus contemporary models of trauma in occupational experience
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Date: 09-2006
Resettlement Stressors for Women of Refugee Background Resettled in Regional Australia
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 09-04-2021
Abstract: Women of Refugee Background (WoRB) have been repeatedly identified as an extremely vulnerable population. Within an Australian context, WoRB are increasingly resettled to non-metropolitan locations, otherwise known as regional locations. Despite this, to date, no research has focused on the lived experience and challenges associated with the resettlement of WoRB to regional contexts. This study aimed to address this gap in the literature by investigating the resettlement experience of WoRB resettled in Tasmania—a state in Australia classified as a rural and regional location. Qualitative interviews were conducted with a group of 21 in iduals (nine WoRB and 12 service providers). Thematic analysis identified four overarching themes—Communication Barriers and Lack of Fluency in English, Challenges Accessing Everyday Basic Needs, Loss of Connection to Culture of Origin and Inability to Access Mainstream Mental Health Services for Help. Participants also highlighted a number of unique gender-related vulnerabilities experienced during resettlement, which were exacerbated in regional locations due to health services being overstretched and under-resourced. Results of the current study are discussed in regard to policy and practical implications, taking into consideration the unique vulnerabilities experienced by WoRB, which, to date, are often overlooked.
Risk, transformation and adaptation
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 20-07-2019
Abstract: Recognition of projected increases in exposure to large-scale hazard events over the coming decades has identified a need to develop how disaster risk reduction and recovery are conceptualized and enacted. This paper discusses some strategies for pursing this goal in both disaster recovery and preparedness settings. The approaches discussed include understanding how communities learn from their hazardous experiences and transform these lessons into beliefs, relationships and capabilities that build future adaptive capacity. The paper draws on ex les of transformative learning that illustrate how people can make fundamental shifts in how they think about, prepare for and respond to environmental challenge and change. Regarding transformation in pre-event settings, the paper first discusses why the addition of transformative strategies to disaster risk reduction programs is required. These include a need for rethinking socio-environmental relationships, increasing risk acceptance in the context of evolving hazardscapes, and countering beliefs regarding not preparing. The paper then offers strategies for motivating transformation and consolidating the outcomes of transformation in pre-event disaster risk reduction (DRR) strategies. A preliminary model that could inform the development of research questions on the development of transformative outcomes and their consolidation in enduring adaptive processes is presented.
Culture and rural health
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 23-09-2012
Victims, violent crime and the criminal justice system: Developing an integrated model of recovery
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 09-1999
Emotional and cognitive factors influencing flood preparedness in Dire Dawa town, Ethiopia
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 19-04-2018
Tsunami Warnings: Understanding in Hawai‘i
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 22-09-2006
‘Housing risk’ and the neoliberal discourse of responsibilisation in Victoria
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 03-06-2015
Abstract: The article examines the representation of housing risk in contemporary Australian policy discourse through a critical analysis of two policy texts from the recent Victorian Coalition government (2010–2014). Drawing on governmentality theory and contemporary debates on neoliberalism, it examines how these policy texts perpetuate a discourse in which ‘housing risk’ is primarily understood as an issue for in iduals to manage, rather than as an issue with predominantly structural roots. It then explores how this particular neoliberal representation of ‘housing risk’ supports policy solutions that ultimately responsibilise in iduals through a narrow focus on education and employment as the pathways to independence in the private housing market. The article argues that this situation is problematic in a context of increasing rates of homelessness and diminished access to affordable housing across Australia.
The epidemiology of regional and widespread musculoskeletal pain in rural versus urban settings in those ≥55 years
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 02-04-2014
Abstract: To examine whether the prevalence of regional and chronic widespread pain (CWP) varies with rurality and to determine the characteristics of persons in rural locations in whom pain is found to be in excess. Participants, aged ≥55 years, from participating general practices in seven different geographical locations in Scotland were sent a postal questionnaire. The 1-month prevalence of 10 regional pain conditions plus CWP was identified using body manikins. Differences in the prevalence of pain with differing rurality were examined using Chi 2 test for trend. Thereafter, among the rural population, the relationships between pain and putative risk factors were examined using Poisson regression. Thus, results are described as risk ratios. There was some evidence to suggest that the prevalence of CWP increased with increasing rurality, although the magnitude of this was slight. No large or significant differences were observed with any regional pain conditions. Factors associated with the reporting of CWP included poor general health, feeling downhearted most of the time and selected measures of social contact. Factors independently associated with CWP included female gender (risk ratio: 1.24 95% confidence interval (CI): 0.997–1.55), poor self-rated health (risk ratio: 3.50 95% CI: 1.92–6.39) and low mood (risk ratio: 1.54 95% CI: 1.07–2.20). Also, having fewer than 10 people to turn to in a crisis was associated with a decrease in the risk of CWP – risk ratio: 0.68 (95% CI: 0.50–0.93) and 0.78 (95% CI: 0.60–1.02) for those with 5–10 and people, respectively. This study provides no evidence that the prevalence of regional musculoskeletal pain is increased in rural settings, although there is some evidence of a modest increase in CWP. Risk factors for CWP are similar to those seen in the urban setting, including markers of general health, mental health and also aspects of social contact. It may be, however, that social networks are more difficult to maintain in rural settings, and clinicians should be aware of the negative effect of perceived social isolation on pain in rural areas.
Developing a research framework for complex multi-team coordination in emergency management
Publisher: Inderscience Publishers
Date: 2013
Risk interpretation and action: A conceptual framework for responses to natural hazards
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2012
The association between hepatitis B virus infection and nonliver malignancies in persons living with HIV: results from the EuroSIDA study
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 09-12-2021
DOI: 10.1111/HIV.13210
Abstract: The aim of this study was to assess the impact of hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection on non‐liver malignancies in people living with HIV (PLWH). All persons aged ≥ 18 years with known hepatitis B virus (HBV) surface antigen (HBsAg) status after the latest of 1 January 2001 and enrolment in the EuroSIDA cohort (baseline) were included in the study persons were categorized as HBV positive or negative using the latest HBsAg test and followed to their first diagnosis of nonliver malignancy or their last visit. Of 17 485 PLWH included in the study, 1269 (7.2%) were HBV positive at baseline. During 151 766 person‐years of follow‐up (PYFU), there were 1298 nonliver malignancies, 1199 in those currently HBV negative [incidence rate (IR) 8.42/1000 PYFU 95% confidence interval (CI) 7.94–8.90/1000 PYFU] and 99 in those HBV positive (IR 10.54/1000 PYFU 95% CI 8.47–12.62/1000 PYFU). After adjustment for baseline confounders, there was a significantly increased incidence of nonliver malignancies in HBV‐positive versus HBV‐negative in iduals [adjusted incidence rate ratio (aIRR) 1.23 95% CI 1.00–1.51]. Compared to HBV‐negative in iduals, HBsAg‐positive/HBV‐DNA‐positive in iduals had significantly increased incidences of nonliver malignancies (aIRR 1.37 95% CI 1.00–1.89) and NHL (aIRR 2.57 95% CI 1.16–5.68). There was no significant association between HBV and lung or anal cancer. We found increased rates of nonliver malignancies in HBsAg‐positive participants, the increases being most pronounced in those who were HBV DNA positive and for NHL. If confirmed, these results may have implications for increased cancer screening in HIV‐positive subjects with chronic HBV infection.
Towards a culturally appropriate mental health system: Sudanese-australians' experiences with trauma
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 05-2010
DOI: 10.1375/PRP.4.1.53
Abstract: Australia is fortunate to welcome approximately 13,000 humanitarian entrants per year, most of whom have experienced protracted violence, hardship and life in refugee c s. The majority of humanitarian migrants were raised in cultural contexts very different to that of Australia, contributing to the increasing ersity of this region. With this ersity comes a responsibility to ensure every Australian receives culturally appropriate mental healthcare. Those who are forced into migration have experienced trauma and the stress of acculturation often compounds this trauma. This study investigated the experience of trauma from the perspectives of Sudanese-Australians. Grounded theory methodology was employed to extract themes from interviews with 15 Sudanese-Australians aged between 19 and 49 years. Results demonstrated four overarching themes: support, religion, strength and new possibilities. The data within these themes are compared and contrasted with previous literature that has examined notions of trauma, distress and growth in western populations. Conclusions drawn from these results highlight the need to build inclusive practices that support ersity into existing trauma services in Australia.
Assessing emergency management training and exercises
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 24-08-2012
DOI: 10.1108/09653561211256198
Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to investigate how training or exercises are assessed in local government emergency management organisations. An investigative review of the resources available to emergency managers across North America and within New Zealand, for the evaluation and monitoring of emergency management training and exercises was conducted. This was then compared with results from a questionnaire based survey of 48 local government organisations in Canada, USA, and New Zealand. A combination of closed and open ended questions was used, enabling qualitative and quantitative analysis. Each organisation's training program, and their assessment of this training is unique. The monitoring and evaluation aspect of training has been overlooked in some organisations. In addition, those that are using assessment methods are operating in blind faith that these methods are giving an accurate assessment of their training. This study demonstrates that it is largely unknown how effective the training efforts of local government organisations are. Further study inspired by this paper will provide a clearer picture of the evaluation of and monitoring of emergency management training programs. These results highlight that organisations need to move away from an ad hoc approach to training design and evaluation, towards a more sophisticated and evidence‐based approach to training needs analysis, design, and evaluation if they are to maximise the benefits of this training. This study is the first investigation to the authors’ knowledge into the current use of erse emergency management training for a range of local government emergency offices, and how this training impacts the functioning of the organisation's emergency operations centre during a crisis.
Harnessing informal education for community resilience
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 05-02-2018
Abstract: Disaster education is considered as a newly emerging area of research and practice, which promotes community-based educational approaches for building resilience. Given the atypical nature of these disturbances, people and communities need to develop the knowledge required to anticipate and understand what they could have to contend with and proactively develop strategies that can minimize their risk and afford ways to cope with and adapt to adverse situations in an effective manner. The purpose of this paper is to suggest that informal education resulting from daily activities related to work, family life, or leisure can be harnessed to develop disaster resilience within community settings. This conceptual paper provides the discussion and synthesis of literature covering community resilience, disaster risk reduction (DRR) and informal education. In doing so, this study proposes a conceptual framework and implementation strategies for harnessing informal education in building community resilience. To harness informal disaster education for community resilience, the authors suggest a conceptual framework and four implementation strategies with the corresponding implications: cultivate social environment for conversations, discussions, reflections and learning design social activities for promoting and encouraging informal learning appropriate interventions by informal educators in social activities and transparent resources and channels for information and social supports. A compilation of a number of community-based DRR practices involving civil society organizations has been incorporated in the proposed framework for exemplifying informal disaster education for community resilience. Promoting informal education in community settings is aimed at building community resilience in a collective way, which is especially important in disaster-prone areas. Informal education for community resilience not only educates in iduals how to deal with disasters, but also connects in iduals together to be more resilient in their ability to cope or bounce back from adverse events in their life.
Participation in rural community groups and links with psychological well-being and resilience: A cross-sectional community-based study
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 08-04-2016
Measuring Tsunami Preparedness in Coastal Washington, United States
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Date: 2005
Policing in the context of terrorism: Managing traumatic stress risk.
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Date: 09-2006
Mood fluctuation in Antarctic expeditioners: does one size fit all?
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 03-2019
DOI: 10.1017/S003224741900024X
Abstract: It has long been argued that mood fluctuation patterns in Antarctic expeditioners are largely homogeneous. This research investigated mood fluctuation patterns throughout all the stages of Antarctic deployment using latent class growth analysis. Utilising advanced statistical methods, such as latent class growth analysis, can greatly help in identifying if mood fluctuation patterns experienced by Antarctic expeditioners are homogenous, and provide insight into mood fluctuation patterns, which was not possible with traditional group-based quantitative methods. Gaining a greater insight into mood fluctuation patterns in Antarctic expeditioners can assist with the development, and implementation of, strategies to assist with expeditioner well-being. The analysis was conducted on 423 expeditioner from the Australian Antarctic program between the 2005-2009 Antarctic deployment seasons. The results supported the notion that mood fluctuation patterns in expeditioners within the Australian-Antarctic programme were largely homogeneous, as a 1-class cubic latent class growth model was identified as being the optimal fit for the dataset. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed in relation to research and prevention and intervention strategies.
Community participation in rural health: a scoping review
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 18-02-2013
What is ‘social resilience’? Perspectives of disaster researchers, emergency management practitioners, and policymakers in New Zealand
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2016
Exploring the Demands on Nurses Working in Health Care Facilities During a Large-Scale Natural Disaster: Often an Invisible Role Within a Highly Visible Event
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 04-2016
Abstract: Nurses are pivotal to an effective societal response to a range of critical events, including disasters. This presents nurses with many significant and complex challenges that require them to function effectively under highly challenging and stressful circumstances and often for prolonged periods of time. The exponential growth in the number of disasters means that knowledge of disaster preparedness and how this knowledge can be implemented to facilitate the development of resilient and adaptive nurses and health care organizations represents an important adjunct to nurse education, policy development, and research considerations. Although this topic has and continues to attract attention in the literature, a lack of systematic understanding of the contingencies makes it difficult to clearly differentiate what is known and what gaps remain in this literature. Providing a sound footing for future research can be facilitated by first systematically reviewing the relevant literature. Focused themes were identified and analyzed using an ecological and interactive systems framework. Ten of the 12 retained studies included evacuation, revealing that evacuation is more likely to occur in an aged care facility than a hospital. The unpredictability of an event also highlighted organizational, functional, and competency issues in regard to the complexity of decision making and overall preparedness. The integrative review also identified that the unique roles, competencies, and demands on nurses working in hospitals and residential health care facilities during a natural disaster appear invisible within the highly visible event.
Predicting community earthquake preparedness: a cross-cultural comparison of Japan and New Zealand
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 05-03-2010
Community preparedness for lava flows from Mauna Loa and Hualālai volcanoes, Kona, Hawai‘i
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 12-03-2004
Preparing for bushfires: understanding intentions
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 08-2006
DOI: 10.1108/09653560610685893
Abstract: To examine the relationship between behavioural intentions and preparing for bushfire hazards and to test the hypothesis that intentions can inform how people reason about their relationship with environmental hazards. Survey data were collected from 280 residents in high bushfire risk areas and analysed using multiple regression analysis. Semi‐structured interviews were conducted with a theoretical s le drawn from those who completed the survey. Data were analysed using grounded theory analysis strategies using the ATLAS.ti data analysis programme following the procedures for open, axial, and selective coding. The analyses demonstrated that preparedness intentions reflect the outcomes of different ways of reasoning about their relationship with bushfire hazards and that “preparing” and “not preparing” represent discrete processes. Each outcome was supported by different attitudes towards preparing and by different predictor variables. Preparing and not preparing for natural hazards should be conceptualised as separate processes and additional research into their origins and precursors is required. Separate risk communication strategies are needed to counter reasons for “not preparing” and facilitate “preparing”. Strategies should accommodate the attitudes and beliefs that underpin these outcomes. To facilitate sustained preparedness, strategies should assist people to negotiate issues required to arrive at a decision to adopt protective measures. Provides novel insights into the relationship between people and natural hazards. It identifies a need to re‐think how risk communication strategies are developed and delivered.
Predicting positive and negative change in expeditioners at 2-months and 12-months post Antarctic employment
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2015
Resilience factors in women of refugee background: A qualitative systematic review
Publisher: No publisher found
Date: 2020
Conceptualizing traumatic stress in police officers: Preemployment, critical incident, and organizational influences
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Date: 09-2006
Critical incident stress risk in police officers: Managing resilience and vulnerability
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Date: 09-2006
Heat, cold, and floods: exploring farmers’ motivations to adapt to extreme weather events in the Terai region of Nepal
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 08-07-2020
Proximity to the 9/11 terrorist attack and suicide ideation in police officers
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Date: 09-2006
A scoping review of the association between rural medical education and rural practice location
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 06-05-2015
Developing effective warning systems: Ongoing research at Ruapehu volcano, New Zealand
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2008
Tsunami awareness and preparedness in Aotearoa New Zealand: The evolution of community understanding
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2021
Posttraumatic growth in protective services professionals: Individual, cognitive and organizational influences.
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Date: 12-2005
Sustaining a transformative disaster risk reduction strategy: Grandmothers telling and singing tsunami stories for over 100 Years saving lives on Simeulue Island
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 23-10-2020
Abstract: As projections about the number and scale of natural hazard events and their impact on human populations grow, increasing attention is being paid to developing effective means for preparing for and mitigating those impacts. At the same time there is an emerging understanding that gradual and incremental changes in disaster risk reduction (DRR) will not adequately meet the future needs of vulnerable populations. Transformational changes have been identified as a necessary requirement to avoid ongoing large-scale losses of life and property and models have been proposed to recalibrate DRR strategies to achieve transformative changes. One cited ex le of a transformative change in DRR is that of Simeulue Island. Simeulue Island suffered two tsunamis approximately 100 years apart (1907, 2004) with markedly different impacts. This paper looks in detail at the cognitive and developmental mechanisms Simeulue co-opted to sustain the transformational change throughout the 20th century. Information from interviews and observation identified the role of grandmothers have in the effective communication of risk as well as motivating appropriate action to save lives. The possibility of similarly overlooked, local, and pre-existing community capacities for transformative change in DRR is then discussed.
Preparing for natural hazards: the role of community trust
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 26-06-2007
DOI: 10.1108/09653560710758323
Abstract: This paper seeks to examine how perception of the relationship between people and sources of information influence hazard preparedness and how trust in civic emergency planning agencies responsible for risk communication influences preparedness decisions. It aims to hypothesize that: familiarity with and information about hazards predicts the relative importance of trust and that levels of trust are influenced by community characteristics. A cross‐sectional analysis of the relationship between trust and hazard preparedness was conducted. Hypotheses were tested using data on bushfire, volcanic and earthquake hazards. Data were analysed using multiple regression analyses. The first hypothesis, that situational factors predict the relative importance of trust, was supported. Partial support was forthcoming for the second hypothesis. Collective problem solving and empowerment predicted levels of trust. The findings demonstrated the utility of this multi‐level model for the analysis of risk communication and need to accommodate societal‐level variables in future risk communication research. The source of information plays a role in risk communication that is independent of the information per se . The relationship between people and civic agencies and the information provided must be accommodated in planning risk communication. The analysis provides an evidence‐based framework for the development of risk communication strategies based on community engagement principles. This is the first time this multi‐level model has been applied to natural hazards and contributes to understanding the contingent nature of the risk communication process.
When the earth doesn’t stop shaking: How experiences over time influenced information needs, communication, and interpretation of aftershock information during the Canterbury Earthquake Sequence, New
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2019
Risk communication and natural hazard mitigation: How trust influences its effectiveness
Publisher: Inderscience Publishers
Date: 2008
Modelling Community Preparation for Natural Hazards: Understanding Hazard Cognitions
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 11-2009
DOI: 10.1375/PRP.3.2.39
Abstract: This article examines how personal beliefs about hazard events interact with social context factors to influence how in iduals interpret their relationship with their environment, assign meaning to natural hazards and their consequences, and make preparedness decisions. Building on earlier work applying the same theoretical model to volcanic hazard preparedness, this article examines earthquake and flood hazard preparedness. The study incorporates both quantitative and qualitative approaches to elicit more detailed information regarding the influences underlying in iduals' decisions to adopt preparation activities to minimise the effects of natural hazards. Findings indicate that preparedness decisions are not made in isolation. Through community level discourse and processes importance is attached to natural hazards and protective measures. It is only when natural hazards are perceived as having greater salience than other threats that people are motivated to prepare for their effects. A major finding is a distinction between trust and distrust of civic authorities. The data suggest that preparedness decisions were strongly influenced by the relevance people attached to information provided by these civic authorities. Delivering hazard mitigation strategies involves engaging with community members in order to understand their needs and to render meaningful assistance to their preparedness decisions.
Forging a paradigm shift in disaster science
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 18-12-2016
Developing warning and disaster response capacity in the tourism sector in coastal Washington, USA
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 05-2007
DOI: 10.1108/09653560710739531
Abstract: There has been a considerable effort over the last decade to increase awareness of the tsunami risk in coastal Washington, USA. However, contemporary research on warning systems spawned by the recent Indian Ocean tsunami tragedy highlights the need for development of an effective tsunami warning system for both residents and transient populations, including visitors and tourists. This study sets out evaluate staff training for emergencies, emergency management exercises (including drills and evacuation), and hazard signage within motels and hotels in Ocean Shores, Washington, USA. Data were collected from interviews with reception staff and managers at 18 hotels, motels, and other accommodation establishments. Levels of staff training and preparedness for tsunami and other hazards were found to be generally very low, although ex les of “best practice” were found at a select few establishments. Larger hotels already had orientation or general training programmes set up which had the potential to incorporate future tsunami and hazard training, while smaller “owner‐operator” businesses did not. Suggestions on how to improve preparedness are discussed, including undertaking training needs analyses and conducting workshops, simulations and employee training to empower both businesses and employees. This case study provides an insight into the challenges faced by emergency managers and the tourism sector in improving the effectiveness of warning systems in areas with high transient populations.
Cross‐cultural comparisons between the earthquake preparedness models of Taiwan and New Zealand
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 17-08-2015
DOI: 10.1111/DISA.12144
Abstract: Taiwan and New Zealand are both located in the Pacific Rim where 81 per cent of the world's largest earthquakes occur. Effective programmes for increasing people's preparedness for these hazards are essential. This paper tests the applicability of the community engagement theory of hazard preparedness in two distinct cultural contexts. Structural equation modelling analysis provides support for this theory. The paper suggests that the close fit between theory and data that is achieved by excluding trust supports the theoretical prediction that familiarity with a hazard negates the need to trust external sources. The results demonstrate that the hazard preparedness theory is applicable to communities that have previously experienced earthquakes and are therefore familiar with the associated hazards and the need for earthquake preparedness. The paper also argues that cross-cultural comparisons provide opportunities for collaborative research and learning as well as access to a wider range of potential earthquake risk management strategies.
Community participation for rural health: a review of challenges
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 03-12-2015
DOI: 10.1111/HEX.12314
Making sense of natural hazard mitigation: Personal, social and cultural influences
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2010
The impact of the 2004 tsunami on coastal Thai communities: assessing adaptive capacity
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 27-11-2007
DOI: 10.1111/J.1467-7717.2007.01029.X
Abstract: The suddenness and scale of the 26 December 2004 tsunami and the challenges posed to affected communities highlighted the benefits of their members having a capacity to confront and adapt to the consequences of such a disaster. Research into adaptive capacity or resilience has been conducted almost exclusively with Western populations. This paper describes an exploratory study of the potential of a measure of collective efficacy developed for Western populations to predict the capacity of members of a collective society, Thai citizens affected by the 2004 tsunami, to confront effectively the recovery demands associated with this disaster. Following a demonstration that this measure could predict adaptive capacity, the role of religious affiliation, ethnicity and place of residence in sustaining collective efficacy is discussed. The implications of the findings for future research on, and intervention to develop, adaptive capacity among Thai citizens in particular and collectivist societies in general are discussed.
Developing a comprehensive model of hazard preparedness: Lessons from the Christchurch earthquake
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2015
Involving rural older people in service co-production: Is there an untapped pool of potential participants?
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2014
Assessing the impact of disasters on helpers
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-1990
Enhancing scientific response in a crisis: evidence-based approaches from emergency management in New Zealand
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 16-01-2015
Social capital and the cultural contexts of disaster recovery outcomes in myanmar and taiwan
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 15-04-2015
Salient Beliefs About Earthquake Hazards and Household Preparedness
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 22-01-2013
DOI: 10.1111/RISA.12014
Abstract: Prior research has found little or no direct link between beliefs about earthquake risk and household preparedness. Furthermore, only limited work has been conducted on how people's beliefs influence the nature and number of preparedness measures adopted. To address this gap, 48 qualitative interviews were undertaken with residents in three urban locations in New Zealand subject to seismic risk. The study aimed to identify the erse hazard and preparedness-related beliefs people hold and to articulate how these are influenced by public education to encourage preparedness. The study also explored how beliefs and competencies at personal, social, and environmental levels interact to influence people's risk management choices. Three main categories of beliefs were found: hazard beliefs preparedness beliefs and personal beliefs. Several salient beliefs found previously to influence the preparedness process were confirmed by this study, including beliefs related to earthquakes being an inevitable and imminent threat, self-efficacy, outcome expectancy, personal responsibility, responsibility for others, and beliefs related to denial, fatalism, normalization bias, and optimistic bias. New salient beliefs were also identified (e.g., preparedness being a "way of life"), as well as insight into how some of these beliefs interact within the wider informational and societal context.
The Christchurch earthquake: Integrating perspectives from diverse disciplines
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2015
Stakeholders’ Perspectives of Social Capital in Informing the Development of Neighborhood-Based Disaster Resilience Measurements
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 15-02-2019
Abstract: The cultivation of neighborhood-based social capital has gained significant attention in the disaster management sector in recent years as a means to increase community disaster resilience. However, within the sector, the concept of social capital remains unclear and its measurement is limited at the neighborhood level due to a focus on predominately top-down and quantitative approaches. By using a qualitative, inductive-driven approach, this paper proposes an integrated social capital measurement framework that combines qualitative and quantitative measures for evaluating levels of social capital in neighborhoods. Nine focus groups consisting of 58 participants across a range of socioeconomically and ethnically erse urban neighborhoods in New Zealand and the United States were conducted. Three key themes were identified that relate to the formation, activation, and benefits of social capital resources: community demography, cultural influences on social support, and neighborhood governance. By synthesizing the study’s results and existing literature, this paper proposes a measurement framework that incorporates both quantitative indicators and contextual questions across six structural and four cognitive social capital domains. The framework can serve as a starting point for neighborhood stakeholders, emergency management practitioners, policymakers, and researchers to assess the resilience of neighborhoods and identify areas for improvement.
At-risk householders' responses to potential and actual bushfire threat: An analysis of findings from seven Australian post-bushfire interview studies 2009-2014
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2015
Community disaster resilience: a qualitative study on Iranian concepts and indicators
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 06-06-2016
Social–Psychological Perspectives on Preparedness Theory and Practice: Facilitating Resilience
Publisher: Springer Singapore
Date: 2020
Preparing for natural hazards: normative and attitudinal influences
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 27-02-2007
DOI: 10.1108/09653560710729839
Abstract: This paper seeks to further develop a model of natural hazard preparedness by examining the role of attitudes to natural hazards and their mitigation and social norms. It aims to examine whether social‐cultural factors influence the decisions people make regarding their relationship with natural hazards. Survey data were collected from 156 residents in Napier, New Zealand. A cross‐sectional design was used. Data were analysed using the AMOS 5 structural equation modelling program. Positive attitudes to hazard mitigation, existing in a social context that advocates adopting protective behaviours, belief in the effectiveness of personal mitigation (outcome expectancy) and good problem solving (action coping) skills increase the likelihood of adopting protective measures for earthquakes. The research identified how attitudes and social norms influence the perception of hazards and how people make preparedness decisions. Further research is needed to examine how hazard attitudes are formed, sustained and organized, as well as how they can be changed to facilitate the sustained adoption of protective measures. Work also needs to be directed to identifying those with whom normative comparisons are made and the relative influence of different referents. The findings argue for a move away from reliance on the passive presentation of information to people and communities that dominates risk communication. Rather, strategies for encouraging and sustaining positive discourse about hazards and their mitigation within a community should be prioritized in future risk communication work. Provides new insights into the relationship between people and natural hazards and provides empirical support for the inclusion of attitudes and social norms in risk communication work. It provides additional support for accommodating the social and cultural context in the development and delivery of risk communication strategies.
An Ecological Risk Management and Capacity Building Model
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 18-07-2014
New Algorithm for Autonomous Dynamic Path Planning in Real-Time Intelligent Robot Car
Publisher: American Scientific Publishers
Date: 11-2017
Assessing farmers’ preparedness to cope with the impacts of multiple climate change-related hazards in the Terai lowlands of Nepal
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2020
The role of prior experience in informing and motivating earthquake preparedness
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2017
Communicating likelihoods and probabilities in forecasts of volcanic eruptions
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2014
Psychological differences between south-eastern Australian householders' who intend to leave if threatened by a wildfire and those who intend to stay and defend
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2015
Response to Landslide Dam Failure Emergencies: Issues Resulting from the October 1999 Mount Adams Landslide and Dam-Break Flood in the Poerua River, Westland, New Zealand
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
Date: 05-2007
Communication With Children and Families About Disaster: Reviewing Multi-disciplinary Literature 2015–2017
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 09-08-2018
DOI: 10.1007/S11920-018-0942-7
Abstract: To identify strategies for communicating with youth and children pre- and post-disaster in the context of a broader survey of child participation in disaster risk reduction as well as methods for communication with children. Youth and children are capable of peer and community education and activism concerning disaster issues and such participation benefits the young actors. Family and sibling support are important in easing the impact of trauma on children. Contemporary forms of psychological first aid appear to do no harm and in line with current evidence. Generally, more evidence from evaluations is necessary to guide the development of communication strategies. Children are growing up in increasingly urban environments with less contact with nature and greater reliance on techno-social systems. Thus, young people may misunderstand natural hazards. Schools and conscious parenting can play important roles in building understanding and psychological resilience.
The use of emergency operations centres in local government emergency management
Publisher: Inderscience Publishers
Date: 2013
Natural Warning Signs of Tsunamis: Human Sensory Experience and Response to the 2004 Great Sumatra Earthquake and Tsunami in Thailand
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 06-2006
DOI: 10.1193/1.2206791
Abstract: Natural warning signs of tsunamis include ground shaking from earthquakes and unusual sea-level fluctuations, wave forms, and sounds. These signs can alert people to impending tsunamis, but no research has explored the recognizability of these signs or the social-cognitive factors that affect human behavioral response to them. Of 663 interviewees, 24% felt ground shaking during the earthquake 69% saw something unusual about the ocean before the first wave reached land, mostly a receded shoreline and 55% heard something unusual. Despite these levels of observation, most people did not evacuate. In fact, 65% saw other people in the danger zone at the time of the tsunami impact. Most respondents had to run for their lives but could not identify a safe place. There are major differences in experience among north, central, and southern coastal Thailand, reflecting social, topographical, and hydrological factors.
Hawaiian cultural influences on support for lava flow hazard mitigation measures during the January 1960 eruption of Kīlauea volcano, Kapoho, Hawai'i
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2008
Being rural in rural health research
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2012
Future directions in Antarctic psychology research
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 21-05-2010
DOI: 10.1017/S0954102010000271
Abstract: Although existing research regarding the experience of Antarctic employment has primarily focused on the absence period (i.e. the period of time in which the expeditioner physically works in Antarctica), it has been repeatedly demonstrated that the majority of expeditioners experience positive outcomes associated with their time ‘on the ice’ despite transient (and frequently subclinical) physical, psychological, and social difficulties. Research strategies directed towards the in idual experience of the expeditioner have not been able to fully account for the processes underpinning the adjustment processes that have facilitated seemingly resilient and growth outcomes. Similarly, insufficient research attention has been given to the separate phases of Antarctic employment, nor the potential interdependence between them, which may also provide further insight into these processes. To address these issues it has been argued that an approach incorporating in idual, interpersonal, and organizational factors throughout the Antarctic employment experience, from pre-departure through absence, reunion, and reintegration, be adopted.
Risk perception and volcanic hazard mitigation: Individual and social perspectives
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2008
A theory of how rural health services contribute to community sustainability
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2012
Modelling predictors of earthquake hazard preparedness in Nepal
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2018
Facilitating sustainable disaster risk reduction in indigenous communities
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 20-01-2021
Abstract: The Sendai Framework of Action 2015–2030 calls for holistic Indigenous disaster risk reduction (DRR) research. Responding to this call, we synergized a holistic philosophical framework (comprising ecological systems theory, symbolic interactionism, and intersectionality) and social constructionist grounded theory and ethnography within a critical Indigenous research paradigm as a methodology for exploring how erse in idual and contextual factors influence DRR in a remote Indigenous community called Galiwinku, in the Northern Territory of Australia. Working together, Indigenous and non-Indigenous researchers collected stories in local languages using conversations and yarning circles with 20 community members, as well as participant observations. The stories were interpreted and analysed using social constructivist grounded theory analysis techniques. The findings were dialogued with over 50 community members. The findings deeply resonated with the community members, validating the trustworthiness and relevance of the findings. The grounded theory that emerged identified two themes. First, local Indigenous knowledge and practices strengthen Indigenous people and reduce the risks posed by natural hazards. More specifically, deep reciprocal relationships with country and ecological knowledge, strong kinship relations, Elder’s wisdom and authority, women and men sharing power, and faith in a supreme power/God and Indigenous-led community organizations enable DRR. Second, colonizing practices weaken Indigenous people and increase the risks from natural hazards. Therefore, colonization, the imposition of Western culture, the government application of top-down approaches, infiltration in Indigenous governance systems, the use of fly-in/fly-out workers, scarcity of employment, restrictions on technical and higher education opportunities, and overcrowded housing that is culturally and climatically unsuitable undermine the DRR capability. Based on the findings, we propose a Community-Based DRR theory which proposes that facilitating sustainable Indigenous DRR in Australian Indigenous communities requires Indigenous and non-Indigenous partners to genuinely work together in two-directional and complementary ways.
Measuring oral health literacy: a scoping review of existing tools
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 12-2014
Learning User's Intrinsic and Extrinsic Interests for Point-of-Interest Recommendation: A Unified Approach
Publisher: International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization
Date: 08-2017
Abstract: Point-of-Interest (POI) recommendation has been an important service on location-based social networks. However, it is very challenging to generate accurate recommendations due to the complex nature of user's interest in POI and the data sparseness. In this paper, we propose a novel unified approach that could effectively learn fine-grained and interpretable user's interest, and adaptively model the missing data. Specifically, a user's general interest in POI is modeled as a mixture of her intrinsic and extrinsic interests, upon which we formulate the ranking constraints in our unified recommendation approach. Furthermore, a self-adaptive location-oriented method is proposed to capture the inherent property of missing data, which is formulated as squared error based loss in our unified optimization objective. Extensive experiments on real-world datasets demonstrate the effectiveness and advantage of our approach.
Ensuring That We Can See the Wood and the Trees
Publisher: Elsevier
Date: 2015
Multi‐agency community engagement during disaster recovery
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 20-04-2012
DOI: 10.1108/09653561211220034
Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to look at the role of community participation in reducing anxiety and trauma in communities during two New Zealand earthquakes: the 1987 Edgecumbe and 2003 Te Anau events and explore the effectiveness of various approaches in providing information, reducing stress, and facilitating a recovery process. The principle methods of data collection were semi‐structured interviews were undertaken between October 2006 and March 2007 with key agencies and in iduals involved in the response and comprehensive analysis of papers, reports and articles in newspapers. The research was undertaken prior to the 4 September 2010 and 2011 earthquakes in Canterbury, New Zealand, and therefore community recovery from these events are not discussed in this paper. Effective survival and recovery from disasters depends not just on people's abilities to cope with the physical impacts of the event, but also on how the societal environment complements and supports the complex and protracted processes of community recovery. Central to recovery is how society organises, mobilises and coordinates the erse range of organizational and professional resources that can be called upon to assist recovery. The paper offers insight into the effectiveness and benefit of incorporating of community participation in reducing anxiety and trauma in communities during earthquakes.
Undergraduate student responses to feedback: expectations and experiences
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 25-02-2015
Communication, Sense of Community, and Disaster Recovery: A Facebook Case Study
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Date: 25-07-2016
Defining Extreme Wildfire Events: Difficulties, Challenges, and Impacts
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 25-02-2018
DOI: 10.3390/FIRE1010009
Evaluating tsunami education in coastal Washington: a 2001-2012 review
Publisher: Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES)
Date: 2014
DOI: 10.4231/D3R785P89
Nepalese dental hygiene and dental students’ career choice motivation and plans after graduation: a descriptive cross-sectional comparison
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 12-2015
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