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- Permanent Link:
- http://dpanther.fiu.edu/dpService/dpPurlService/purl/FI13042686/00001
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- Summary:
- Although global is in the title “From Grassroots to Global,” the primary focus of the document is on the local and community levels and their potential role in implementing DRR projects. It reviews the major themes and challenges discussed at the 2008 ProVention Forum in Panama City, Panama. It is primarily geared towards DRR practitioners and policymakers. This review is organized around the seven themes of the 2008 Forum. The first issue addressed was urban risk, particularly in the host city. The second section recognized the ongoing debate between scholars in DRR and those associated with Climate Change Adaption (CCA), and how the interconnectedness of their agendas becomes most clear at the community level as they both seek to protect livelihoods and lives. The document clearly demonstrates that the differences between the two have nothing to do with formal barriers in communication and collaboration but rather differences between individual perceptions and experiences. The forum addresses the importance of involving often neglected groups, such as women and indigenous people, in the implementation of DRR considering they generally contain much knowledge about local risks and thus could provide much needed insight into developing strategies that build resilience. A fourth section takes a look at the role of the media in transmitting DRR initiatives. Additionally, the forum featured discussions on public-private sector partnerships in DRR, and the opportunities and challenges associated with improving established DRR programs when governance structures are nonexistent or weakened. In such circumstances, the review calls for scaling across, building upon, and scaling up grassroots initiatives, highlighting concepts such as horizontal learning and inclusive governance. Readers will find the section entitled “In the Corridors” particularly enlightening. It provides an overview of the idea of a people-centered DRR, includes participant interviews and perspectives on ProVention and the forum, and discusses issues associated with the growth of the DRR field. These topics show a new wave in DRR that seeks to take a bottom-up approach as opposed to the traditional top-down paradigm. The document demonstrates that collaborations with actors at the local and community levels are perhaps more beneficial to DRR than those focused primarily on national government actors. These collaborations are valuable because they open up the possibility of integrating DRR efforts into other critical agendas within these communities, particularly rights claims, poverty reduction, and sustainable development. ( English, )
- Subject:
- General Risk Reduction
- Citation/Reference:
- Pelling, M., Smith, E.M. (2008). From grassroots to global: people centered disaster risk reduction. ProVention Forum.
Record Information
- Source Institution:
- Florida International University
- Rights Management:
- Refer to main document/publisher for use rights.
- Resource Identifier:
- FI13042686
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