Constructing a common holistic description of what is valuable and important to protect: A possible requisite for disaster risk management
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Summary, in English
Effective disaster risk management is a requisite for sustainable development and it is paramount to include a wide range of stakeholders to manage risk in this context. Recent research indicates the significance of making ideas of what is valuable and important to protect explicit in any disaster risk management initiative that involves several stake- holders. The purpose of this article is thus to investigate if it is possible for a wide range of stakeholders to construct a common holistic description of what is valuable and important to protect. Dr Kenneth Kaunda District Municipality in South Africa is used as the context for this study and its findings indicate that such common holistic description is possible there. The findings also indicate that although each stakeholder has intricate knowledge about the context, it is not until they come together and share their individual knowledge as the richer picture emerges. A picture that may not in any way be a perfect full picture, but nonetheless their common picture to build mutual understanding, commitment and effective disaster risk management initiatives on.
Department/s
- Lund University Centre for Risk Assessment and Management (LUCRAM)
- Centre for Societal Resilience
- Division of Risk Management and Societal Safety
Publishing year
2013
Language
English
Pages
18-27
Publication/Series
International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
Volume
6
Document type
Journal article
Publisher
Elsevier
Topic
- Social Sciences Interdisciplinary
Keywords
- Risk
- Disaster
- Value
- Valuable
- System
- Complexity
Status
Published
Research group
- LUCRAM (Lund University Center for Risk Analysis and Management
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 2212-4209