Advancing the disaster and development paradigm
This article provides a comment on perspectives that persist as part of the disaster and development paradigm, guided by action research findings from Northumbria’s work in this field, in order to assess how to advance the paradigm conceptually in order to further steer implementation of disaster risk reduction.
The article helps to reassess what should be added by way of analytical fronts in order to bring about advances in disaster and development awareness building and improved governance of disaster risk reduction.
Three thematic areas are promoted here as underpinning potential advances in applied disaster and development studies, addressing theory, policy, and practice going forward. These fronts are broadly described as:
(1) build up earlier a human well-being that offsets negative risk;
(2) live better with uncertainty; and
(3) know the nature of barriers to more effective transitions in sustainable development and disaster risk reduction.
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