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Vulnerability assessments, identity and spatial scale challenges in disaster-risk reduction
Current approaches to vulnerability assessment for disaster-risk reduction (DRR) commonly apply generalised, a priori determinants of vulnerability to particular hazards in particular places. Although they may allow for policy-level legibility at high levels of spatial scale, these approaches suffer...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6014129/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29955282 http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/jamba.v7i1.201 |
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author | Carr, Edward R. Abrahams, Daniel de la Poterie, Arielle T. Suarez, Pablo Koelle, Bettina |
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description | Current approaches to vulnerability assessment for disaster-risk reduction (DRR) commonly apply generalised, a priori determinants of vulnerability to particular hazards in particular places. Although they may allow for policy-level legibility at high levels of spatial scale, these approaches suffer from attribution problems that become more acute as the level of analysis is localised and the population under investigation experiences greater vulnerability. In this article, we locate the source of this problem in a spatial scale mismatch between the essentialist framings of identity behind these generalised determinants of vulnerability and the intersectional, situational character of identity in the places where DRR interventions are designed and implemented. Using the Livelihoods as Intimate Government (LIG) approach to identify and understand different vulnerabilities to flooding in a community in southern Zambia, we empirically demonstrate how essentialist framings of identity produce this mismatch. Further, we illustrate a means of operationalising intersectional, situational framings of identity to achieve greater and more productive understandings of hazard vulnerability than available through the application of general determinants of vulnerability to specific places and cases. |
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spelling | pubmed-60141292018-06-28 Vulnerability assessments, identity and spatial scale challenges in disaster-risk reduction Carr, Edward R. Abrahams, Daniel de la Poterie, Arielle T. Suarez, Pablo Koelle, Bettina Jamba Original Research Current approaches to vulnerability assessment for disaster-risk reduction (DRR) commonly apply generalised, a priori determinants of vulnerability to particular hazards in particular places. Although they may allow for policy-level legibility at high levels of spatial scale, these approaches suffer from attribution problems that become more acute as the level of analysis is localised and the population under investigation experiences greater vulnerability. In this article, we locate the source of this problem in a spatial scale mismatch between the essentialist framings of identity behind these generalised determinants of vulnerability and the intersectional, situational character of identity in the places where DRR interventions are designed and implemented. Using the Livelihoods as Intimate Government (LIG) approach to identify and understand different vulnerabilities to flooding in a community in southern Zambia, we empirically demonstrate how essentialist framings of identity produce this mismatch. Further, we illustrate a means of operationalising intersectional, situational framings of identity to achieve greater and more productive understandings of hazard vulnerability than available through the application of general determinants of vulnerability to specific places and cases. AOSIS OpenJournals 2015-11-30 /pmc/articles/PMC6014129/ /pubmed/29955282 http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/jamba.v7i1.201 Text en © 2015. The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ Licensee:AOSIS OpenJournals. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License. |
spellingShingle | Original Research Carr, Edward R. Abrahams, Daniel de la Poterie, Arielle T. Suarez, Pablo Koelle, Bettina Vulnerability assessments, identity and spatial scale challenges in disaster-risk reduction |
title | Vulnerability assessments, identity and spatial scale challenges in disaster-risk reduction |
title_full | Vulnerability assessments, identity and spatial scale challenges in disaster-risk reduction |
title_fullStr | Vulnerability assessments, identity and spatial scale challenges in disaster-risk reduction |
title_full_unstemmed | Vulnerability assessments, identity and spatial scale challenges in disaster-risk reduction |
title_short | Vulnerability assessments, identity and spatial scale challenges in disaster-risk reduction |
title_sort | vulnerability assessments, identity and spatial scale challenges in disaster-risk reduction |
topic | Original Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6014129/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29955282 http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/jamba.v7i1.201 |
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