Making Society Resilient Disaster Preparedness, Planning and Resilience
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David E. Alexander, Professor of Emergency Planning and Management University College London, and Tōhoku University, Japan
Making Society ResilientDisaster Preparedness, Planning and Resilience:Moving Towards an Active 'Whole-Of-Society' Approach
Civil protection, safeguarding and assistance to civilian populations during and after large emergencies, has become a serious concern in the modern world, which is increasingly volatile and burdened with major risk.
This talk will address four issues: risk and resilience, complexity, context, and foresight. We begin by taking a critical look at the concept of resilience in the light of emerging risks and changing global priorities. To deal with disaster risk, we must understand the complexity of the phenomenon. This requires us to understand the cascading consequences of disaster and especially how they propagate through critical infrastructure. We live in networked societies and hence all disasters are to a greater or lesser extent events with cascading effects.
Disaster risk is a specific component of general risk, including poverty, unemployment, homelessness and security threats. Increasingly, to understand it we must investigate the context in which it occurs. In many instances, contextual matters condition the way in which disaster risk can be managed. Moreover, to create resilience against disasters we must integrate mitigation and preparedness measures into the general sustainability agenda.
Finally, change in the modern world is now so fast, abrupt or unpredictable that there is a need to exercise foresight as a means of creating suites of scenarios that can form the basis of emergency plans. This talk will present a critique of these concepts and an assessment of how they can be used to improve emergency planning, management and response, including by activating a "whole-of-society" approach based on participatory democracy.
This is from the conference "Uncertainty Management - Risk Management in a Rapidly Changing World". Read about the conference themes here.
About the speaker:
Making Society ResilientDisaster Preparedness, Planning and Resilience:Moving Towards an Active 'Whole-Of-Society' Approach
Civil protection, safeguarding and assistance to civilian populations during and after large emergencies, has become a serious concern in the modern world, which is increasingly volatile and burdened with major risk.
This talk will address four issues: risk and resilience, complexity, context, and foresight. We begin by taking a critical look at the concept of resilience in the light of emerging risks and changing global priorities. To deal with disaster risk, we must understand the complexity of the phenomenon. This requires us to understand the cascading consequences of disaster and especially how they propagate through critical infrastructure. We live in networked societies and hence all disasters are to a greater or lesser extent events with cascading effects.
Disaster risk is a specific component of general risk, including poverty, unemployment, homelessness and security threats. Increasingly, to understand it we must investigate the context in which it occurs. In many instances, contextual matters condition the way in which disaster risk can be managed. Moreover, to create resilience against disasters we must integrate mitigation and preparedness measures into the general sustainability agenda.
Finally, change in the modern world is now so fast, abrupt or unpredictable that there is a need to exercise foresight as a means of creating suites of scenarios that can form the basis of emergency plans. This talk will present a critique of these concepts and an assessment of how they can be used to improve emergency planning, management and response, including by activating a "whole-of-society" approach based on participatory democracy.
About the speaker:
David Alexander is Professor of Emergency Planning and Management at University College London and cross-appointment professor at Tōhoku University in Japan. He has taught and researched disaster studies for 45 years.
His books include "Natural Disasters", "Confronting Catastrophe", "Principles of Emergency Planning and Management", "Recovery from Disaster" (with Ian Davis) and "How to Write an Emergency Plan". He is the Founding Editor of the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, and Vice-President of the Institute of Civil Protection and Emergency Management.
His research interests centre on disaster risk reduction, natural hazards, and earthquake disasters. David Alexander is presently working for the UK, Irish and Japanese Governments on risk management issues.
His books include "Natural Disasters", "Confronting Catastrophe", "Principles of Emergency Planning and Management", "Recovery from Disaster" (with Ian Davis) and "How to Write an Emergency Plan". He is the Founding Editor of the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, and Vice-President of the Institute of Civil Protection and Emergency Management.
His research interests centre on disaster risk reduction, natural hazards, and earthquake disasters. David Alexander is presently working for the UK, Irish and Japanese Governments on risk management issues.
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