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Cultural Perceptions of Hazard and Risk
Jessica MercerDRR Advisor
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“You need to move up into the mountains
away from the river”
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4 Key Questions:
1.How relevant is ‘culture’ to disaster risk reduction?
2.How do we engage with culture?
3.What is the value of indigenous knowledge and how can we access/utilise this for DRR?
4.Where do the challenges lie in putting research into practice with regards to culture and DRR?
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Is culture relevant?
Technocratic Socio-Political
Need for a holistic perspective
Disasters as ‘Acts of God’???
Knowledge, Views, Beliefs = CULTURE
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UK FLOODS
Complacency Culture
Culture increasing risk?
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Positive and Negative Culture
Why does a community choose to live on the slopes of an active volcano?
Why do they feel that prayer will ensure their survival?
Why do they boil stones during a hungry period?
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Is Culture Relevant?
YES!!!!
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Engaging with Culture…..HOW????
Community based
disaster risk
reduction (CBDRR)
Indigenous / Local
Knowledge
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Indigenous Communities and
DRR
2004 Tsunami
Simeulue Island, Indonesia
Moken Sea Gypsies, Thailand
Cyclone Zoe 2002 - Solomon Islands
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Difficulties of engagement
CASE STUDY: Char people Jamuna River, Bangladesh.
Both communities aim to reduce risk
Integrating both knowledge bases
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Indigenous Knowledge and DRR
WHY…..
VFL and GAR Findings
Community based DRR - participatory
Integration of bottom up and top-down
Proactive rather than reactive
Cost effective
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New Risks, New Challenges
Climate change, increased urbanisation, population etc
Indigenous knowledge being lost yet indigenous communities have adapted for centuries.
Romanticising IK
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Culture & DRR:
Putting Research into Practice and
Practice into Research
How accessible is culture and local knowledge - and how do we utilise it?
Guided discovery
More holistic approach
Empowering communities
Integrating relevant and applicable IK and SK
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