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Grasping the hydra: The need for a holistic and systematic approach to disaster risk reduction

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Summary, in English

This article stresses the significance of recognising interdependencies between factors determining

disaster risk in any attempts to integrate disaster risk reduction in international

development cooperation. It bases its arguments on the case studies of four past projects

in Sri Lanka and Tajikistan, which are scrutinised using a theoretical framework based

on systems approaches. It appears that the results of ignoring interdependencies may (1)

cause sub-optimisation problems where the desired outcome is not reached as the factor

focused on and/or the desired outcome are dependent on other factors, and (2) make it

difficult or impossible to monitor and evaluate the actual effects of international development

cooperation projects in disaster risk reduction.

Department/s

Publishing year

2009

Language

English

Pages

12-24

Publication/Series

Jàmbá: Journal of Disaster Risk Studies

Volume

2

Issue

1

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

AOSIS

Topic

  • Other Civil Engineering
  • Social Sciences Interdisciplinary
  • Building Technologies

Keywords

  • Complexity and Interdependence
  • Systems Approaches
  • Disaster Risk Reduction

Status

Published

Research group

  • LUCRAM (Lund University Center for Risk Analysis and Management

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 2072-845X