scholarly journals Platform Dedicated to Nature-Based Solutions for Risk Reduction and Environmental Issues in Hilly and Mountainous Lands

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 1094
Author(s):  
Audrey Baills ◽  
Manuel Garcin ◽  
Séverine Bernardie
Keyword(s):  
Risk Reduction ◽  
Disaster Risk Reduction ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Disaster Risk ◽  
Local Economy ◽  
Qualitative Assessment ◽  
Global Changes ◽  
Economical Feasibility

In the context of global changes, nature-based solutions (NBSs) increasingly draw attention as a possible way to reduce disaster risk associated with extreme hydro-meteorological events while providing human well-being and biodiversity benefits at the same time. The PHUSICOS platform is dedicated to gather and analyse relevant NBSs used to reduce disaster risk associated with extreme hydro-meteorological events in mountainous and hilly lands. To design the platform, an in-depth review of 11 existing platforms has been performed. The PHUSICOS platform currently references 152 literature NBS cases and is continuously enriched through the contribution of NBS community. The platform also proposes a qualitative assessment of the NBSs collected according to 15 criteria related with five ambits: “disaster risk reduction”, “technical and economical feasibility”, “environment”, “society”, and “local economy”. This paper presents the structure of the platform and a first analysis of its content.

scholarly journals Platform Dedicated to Nature-Based Solutions for Risk Reduction and Environmental Issues in Hilly and Mountainous Lands

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Audrey Baills ◽  
Manuel Garcin ◽  
Severine Bernardie
Keyword(s):  
Risk Reduction ◽  
Disaster Risk Reduction ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Disaster Risk ◽  
Local Economy ◽  
Qualitative Assessment ◽  
Global Changes ◽  
Economical Feasibility

In the context of global changes, Nature-Based Solutions (NBSs) increasingly draw attention as a possible way to reduce disaster risk associated with extreme hydro-meteorological events while providing human well-being and biodiversity benefits at the same time. The PHUSICOS platform is dedicated to gather and analyse relevant NBSs used to reduce disaster risk associated with extreme hydro-meteorological events in mountainous and hilly lands. To design the platform, an in-depth review of 11 existing platforms has been performed. The platform currently references 152 literature NBS cases and is continuously enriched with demonstrator sites through the contribution of NBS community. The platform also proposes a qualitative assessment of the NBSs collected according to 15 criteria related with five ambits: disaster risk reduction, technical and economical feasibility, environment, society and local economy. This paper presents the structure of the platform and a first analysis of its content.

scholarly journals Disaster Risk Reduction Education: Tensions and Connections with Sustainable Development Goals

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (19) ◽  
pp. 10933
Author(s):  
Valeria M. Cabello ◽  
Karina D. Véliz ◽  
Ana M. Moncada-Arce ◽  
María Irarrázaval García-Huidobro ◽  
Felipe Juillerat
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Risk Reduction ◽  
Informal Education ◽  
Disaster Risk Reduction ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Risk Mitigation ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Disaster Risk ◽  
Vulnerable Groups ◽  
Development Goals

In the last decades, environmental risks and threats have increased human exposure to natural hazards, often affecting the quality of life, especially for vulnerable groups. This article explores the tensions and connections within educational research concerning disaster risk reduction (DRRE) in relation to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Twenty-seven articles published between 2014 and 2020 in various geographic regions regarding disaster risk reduction (DRR) were reviewed, finding that (a) the participation of children, youth, families, and the community is central; (b) non-formal and informal education are equally as relevant as formal education; (c) DRR initiatives can favor broader objectives, such as reducing poverty or advancing towards sustainable communities; and (d) achieving community resilience in the face of socio-natural disasters requires local voices for the design, implementation, and scaling of strategies. However, certain tensions were also found due to the lack of emphasis on the crucial areas of SDGs, which are related to a comprehensive notion of well-being and health education, including mental health and a gender approach, the limited mitigation of risk aggravating factors arising from extreme poverty and the climate crisis, the disconnection between modern and ancestral knowledge, the “top-down” versus “bottom-up” approach in the generation of local solutions, the role of education on disaster risk reduction as a risk mitigation factor, and the requirements to adjust the curriculum synchronously to global environmental needs, are all discussed, thus highlighting and encouraging the urgent cultural changes needed in the Anthropocene era that can be triggered through disaster risk reduction education.

scholarly journals Protecting the Health and Well-being of Populations from Disasters: Health and Health Care in The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030

2015 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amina Aitsi-Selmi ◽  
Virginia Murray
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Risk Reduction ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
Disaster Risk Reduction ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Disaster Risk ◽  
Publication Type ◽  
Sendai Framework ◽  
Health And Well Being

AbstractThe Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) 2015-2030 is the first of three United Nations (UN) landmark agreements this year (the other two being the Sustainable Development Goals due in September 2015 and the climate change agreements due in December 2015). It represents a step in the direction of global policy coherence with explicit reference to health, economic development, and climate change. The multiple efforts of the health community in the policy development process, including campaigning for safe schools and hospitals, helped to put people’s mental and physical health, resilience, and well-being higher up the DRR agenda compared with its predecessor, the 2005 Hyogo Framework for Action. This report reflects on these policy developments and their implications and reviews the range of health impacts from disasters; summarizes the widened remit of DRR in the post-2015 world; and finally, presents the science and health calls of the Sendai Framework to be implemented over the next 15 years to reduce disaster losses in lives and livelihoods.Aitsi-SelmiA, MurrayV. Protecting the health and well-being of populations from disasters: health and health care in The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030. Prehosp Disaster Med. 2016;31(1):74–78.

Working together: Developing disaster risk reduction first aid training in a post-earthquake Chinese context

2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 491-497 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy Sim ◽  
Yang Liu ◽  
Sijian Li
Keyword(s):  
Risk Reduction ◽  
Disaster Risk Reduction ◽  
Well Being ◽  
First Aid ◽  
Disaster Risk ◽  
Psychosocial Assessment ◽  
First Aid Training ◽  
Working Together ◽  
Review Reports ◽  
Professional Practitioners

This brief review reports a current transdisciplinary practice by social work and nursing professionals working together with local stakeholders in a Chinese post-disaster context that is continually plagued by recurring secondary hazards. From a community psychosocial assessment in the village affected by recent landslides, the sense of insecurity posed by imminent landslides was apparent among the villagers. With the aim to reduce disaster risk, the collaboration focuses on providing first aid training using locally relevant knowledge and resources. Twenty relevant stakeholders were invited to help develop and attend the first-run of the program. This article explores the way social workers can apply transdisciplinary strategies to work with other professional practitioners and stakeholders in meeting disaster risk reduction needs in a Chinese remote village. One of the most apparent impacts of this approach is increasing the psychosocial well-being of the local residence as well as their preparedness in disasters.

Analisis Longsor Cililin Dan Model Pengupayaan Kestabilan Lerengnya

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Wisyanto
Keyword(s):  
Land Cover ◽  
Risk Reduction ◽  
Disaster Risk Reduction ◽  
Disaster Risk ◽  
Landslide Risk ◽  
West Java ◽  
Water Condition ◽  
Reduction Program ◽  
Landslide Risk Reduction

Landslides have occurred in various places in Indonesia. Likewise with West Java, there were many regions that has experienced repeated landslides. Having many experience of occurrences of landslides, we should have had a good landslide risk reduction program. Indeed, the incidence of landslides depends on many variables. Due to that condition, it may that a region would have different variable with another region. So it is impossible to generalize the implementation of a mitigation technology for all areas prone to landslides. Research of the Cililin's landslide is to anticipate the next disasters that may happen in around the area of 2013 Cililin Landslide. Through observation lithological conditions, water condition, land cover and landscape, as well as consideration of wide dimension of the building footing, the distance of building to the slopes and so forth, it has been determined some efforts of disaster risk reduction in the area around the landslide against the occurrence of potential landslide in the future.Bencana tanah longsor telah terjadi di berbagai tempat di Indonesia. Demikian halnya dengan Jawa Barat, tidak sedikit daerahnya telah berulang kali mengalami longsor. Seharusnya dengan telah banyaknya kejadian longsor, kita mampu mengupayakan program penurunan risiko longsor secara baik. Memang kejadian longsor bergantung pada banyak variabel, dimana dari satu daerah dengan daerah yang lain akan sangat memungkinkan mempunyai variabel yang berbeda, sehingga tidak mungkin kita membuat generalisasi penerapan suatu teknologi mitigasinya untuk semua daerah rawan longsor. Penelitian longsor di Cililin dilakukan untuk mengantisipasi terjadinya bencana di sekitar daerah Longsor Cililin 2013 yang lalu. Melalui pengamatan kondisi litologi, keairan, tutupan lahan dan bentang alam yang ada, serta pertimbangan akan dimensi luas pijakan bangunan, jarak batas bangunan dengan lereng dan lain sebagainya, telah ditentukan beberapa upaya penurunan risiko bencana di daerah sekitar longsor terhadap potensi kejadian longsor dimasa mendatang.Keywords: Landslide, risk reduction, footing of building, Cililin

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