What we miss when we say 'disproportionate': A 4-pillar lens on Indigenous disaster resilience
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Exploring disaster risk reduction and resilience
The Resilience Matters webinar series will focus on systems, environments and human factors that intersect to influence the varying levels of risk, harm and equity that people experience before, during and after a disaster.
Presenters from a variety of research, government and community backgrounds will be invited to provide their insights and perspectives as we seek to understand how we can reduce harm in these systems to reduce disaster risk and build resilience.
Throughout the series, we will build on these foundational concepts. Everyone is welcome to attend, whether you are an experienced practitioner or new to these concepts, or somewhere in between.
AIDR welcomes Dr Bhiamie Williamson, Associate Professor and Program Lead, National Indigenous Disaster Resilience, Monash University.
We often hear about the disproportionate impacts disasters have on Indigenous groups, but rarely explore the unique impacts. Bhiamie will explore these unique impacts of major disasters on Indigenous groups through 4 pillars:
- Political
- Economic
- Social
- Spiritual
Bhiamie will explain each of these, what they mean in the context of disaster resilience, and how they might be used to better understand what support and targeted investment in Indigenous disaster resilience may look like.