| Community-based disaster preparedness and climate adaptation: local capacity-building in the Philippines. | |
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PMID: 16512863 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
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Community-based disaster preparedness (CBDP) approaches are increasingly important elements of vulnerability reduction and disaster management strategies. They are associated with a policy trend that values the knowledge and capacities of local people and builds on local resources, including social capital. CBDP may be instrumental not only in formulating local coping and adaptation strategies, but also in situating them within wider development planning and debates. In theory, local people can be mobilised to resist unsustainable (vulnerability increasing) forms of development or livelihood practices and to raise local concerns more effectively with political representatives. This paper focuses on the potential of CBDP initiatives to alleviate vulnerability in the context of climate change, and their limitations. It presents evidence from the Philippines that, in the limited forms in which they are currently employed, CBDP initiatives have the potential both to empower and disempower, and warns against treating CBDP as a panacea to disaster management problems. |
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Authors:
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Katrina M Allen |
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Type: Journal Article |
Journal Detail:
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Title: Disasters Volume: 30 ISSN: 0361-3666 ISO Abbreviation: Disasters Publication Date: 2006 Mar |
Date Detail:
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Created Date: 2006-03-03 Completed Date: 2006-04-12 Revised Date: - |
Medline Journal Info:
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Nlm Unique ID: 7702072 Medline TA: Disasters Country: England |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 81-101 Citation Subset: IM |
Affiliation:
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Social Research Associates, Leicester, UK. kmallen@uk2.net |
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Community Networks
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organization & administration* Disaster Planning* Greenhouse Effect* Philippines |
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