Disaster Prevention and Management: Volume 29 Issue 6

Guest editorial

Jason von Meding, Ksenia Chmutina, Giuseppe Forino, Emmanuel Raju

Assessing disaster capitalism in post-disaster processes in Chile: neoliberal reforms and the role of the corporate class

Vicente Sandoval, Claudia Gonzalez-Muzzio, Carlos Villalobos, Juan Pablo Sarmiento, Gabriela Hoberman

This paper examines disaster capitalism in Chile, that is, the relationships between disasters and neoliberalism. It looks at two post-disaster dimensions: disasters as windows of…

Knowledge adoption in post-disaster housing self-recovery

Eefje Hendriks, Aaron Opdyke

The purpose of this study is to explore communication of hazard-resistant construction techniques after disaster in the absence of outside influence. It further aims to unpack the…

Social environmental injustices against indigenous peoples: the Belo Monte dam

Heidi Michalski Ribeiro, Jose Rubens Morato

This proposal is a case study of the Belo Monte dam. The article deals with human rights and environmental violations arising from the construction of the Belo Monte Hydroelectric…

Relocalisation for degrowth and disaster risk reduction

Oluwadunsin Moromoke Ajulo, Jason von Meding, Patrick Tang

Vulnerability is understood as susceptibility to hazards born out of the complex interaction within the system scales. The current global economic system focuses on persistent…

The paradox of community involvement: rebuilding Minamisanriku

Wesley Cheek

The purpose of this paper is to identify the barriers to community participation in post-disaster reconstruction in Minamisanriku, Japan.

We said, they said: the politics of conceptual frameworks in disasters and climate change in Colombia and Latin America

Gonzalo Lizarralde, Holmes Páez, Adriana Lopez, Oswaldo Lopez, Lisa Bornstein, Kevin Gould, Benjamin Herazo, Lissette Muñoz

Few people living in informal settlements in the Global South spontaneously claim that they are “resilient” or “adapting” to disaster risk or climate change. Surely, they often…

(In)Visibilization through decolonial delinking? Disrupting the permanently neglected disaster at the border of Colombia and Ecuador

Johannes M. Waldmueller

The geopolitical relevance of the region with regard to clandestine and market interests exerting ecological pressures over mangroves and artisanal fishing thus raises awareness…

Fit for purpose? Lessons from transitional shelter provision for internally displaced persons in urban informal settlements in Brazil

Mirian Sayuri Vaccari, David Sanderson, Martin Loosemore, Mohammad Mojtahedi

The purpose of this paper is to explore the challenges of transitional shelter provision for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in urban informal settlements. While there has…

Preliminary research on sponge city concept for urban flood reduction: a case study on ten sponge city pilot projects in Shanghai, China

Shuxian Feng, Toshiya Yamamoto

This research aimed to determine the differences and similarities in each pilot project to understand the primary design forms and concepts of sponge city concept (SCC) projects…