| Operational challenges to community participation in post-disaster damage assessments: observations from Fiji. | |
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PMID: 20618387 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
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Community participation is becoming increasingly popular within the field of disaster management. International disaster policies, frameworks and charters embrace the notion that communities should play an active role in initiatives to identify vulnerabilities and risks and to mitigate those dangers, and, in the event of a disaster, that they should play a proactive part in response and recovery (see, for example, UNISDR, 1994; The Sphere Project, 2004; United Nations, 2005). A number of studies have investigated the participation of communities in disaster preparedness and mitigation efforts (see, for instance, Scott-Villiers, 2000; Andharia, 2002; Godschalk, Brody and Burby, 2003), There is, however, limited reflection on the challenges to ensuring participation in the operational context of disaster response. This paper draws on a study of the policy and practice of participatory damage assessment in Fiji to identify and discuss the barriers to formal implementation of community participation in a post-disaster context. |
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Authors:
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Kirstie Méheux; Dale Dominey-Howes; Kate Lloyd |
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Type: Journal Article |
Journal Detail:
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Title: Disasters Volume: 34 ISSN: 1467-7717 ISO Abbreviation: Disasters Publication Date: 2010 Oct |
Date Detail:
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Created Date: 2010-10-20 Completed Date: 2011-02-01 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: 1102-22 Citation Subset: IM |
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© 2010 The Author(s). Journal compilation © Overseas Development Institute, 2010. |
Affiliation:
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Australian Tsunami Research Centre and Natural Hazards Research Laboratory, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia. kirstiemeheux@hotmail.com |
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Consumer Participation
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methods* Disasters* Evaluation Studies as Topic* Fiji Humans |
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