Informal Disaster Governance
Scholars and practitioners are increasingly questioning formal disaster governance (FDG) approaches as being too rigid, slow, and command-and-control driven. Too often, local realities and non-formal influences are sidelined or ignored to the extent that disaster governance can be harmed through the...
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ftcogitatiopress:oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/3077 2023-06-11T04:09:11+02:00 Informal Disaster Governance Duda, Patrizia Isabelle Kelman, Ilan Glick, Navonel Research Council of Norway 2020-12-10 application/pdf https://www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandgovernance/article/view/3077 https://doi.org/10.17645/pag.v8i4.3077 eng eng Cogitatio https://www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandgovernance/article/view/3077/3077 https://www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandgovernance/article/view/3077 doi:10.17645/pag.v8i4.3077 Copyright (c) 2020 Patrizia Isabelle Duda, Ilan Kelman, Navonel Glick http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 Politics and Governance; Vol 8, No 4 (2020): The Politics of Disaster Governance; 375-385 2183-2463 Arctic climate change disaster governance disaster risk reduction policy change info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2020 ftcogitatiopress https://doi.org/10.17645/pag.v8i4.3077 2023-04-23T16:32:59Z Scholars and practitioners are increasingly questioning formal disaster governance (FDG) approaches as being too rigid, slow, and command-and-control driven. Too often, local realities and non-formal influences are sidelined or ignored to the extent that disaster governance can be harmed through the efforts to impose formal and/or political structures. A contrasting narrative emphasises so-called bottom-up, local, and/or participatory approaches which this article proposes to encapsulate as Informal Disaster Governance (IDG). This article theorises IDG and situates it within the long-standing albeit limited literature on the topic, paying particular attention to the literature’s failure to properly define informal disaster risk reduction and response efforts, to conceptualise their far-reaching extent and consequences, and to consider their ‘dark sides.’ By presenting IDG as a framework, this article restores the conceptual importance and balance of IDG vis-à-vis FDG, paving the way for a better understanding of the ‘complete’ picture of disaster governance. This framework is then considered in a location where IDG might be expected to be more powerful or obvious, namely in a smaller, more isolated, and tightly knit community, characteristics which are stereotypically used to describe island locations. Thus, Svalbard in the Arctic has been chosen as a case study, including its handling of the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic, to explore the merits and challenges with shifting the politics of disaster governance towards IDG. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Climate change Svalbard Cogitatio Press (E-Journals) Arctic Svalbard Politics and Governance 8 4 375 385 |
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Scholars and practitioners are increasingly questioning formal disaster governance (FDG) approaches as being too rigid, slow, and command-and-control driven. Too often, local realities and non-formal influences are sidelined or ignored to the extent that disaster governance can be harmed through the efforts to impose formal and/or political structures. A contrasting narrative emphasises so-called bottom-up, local, and/or participatory approaches which this article proposes to encapsulate as Informal Disaster Governance (IDG). This article theorises IDG and situates it within the long-standing albeit limited literature on the topic, paying particular attention to the literature’s failure to properly define informal disaster risk reduction and response efforts, to conceptualise their far-reaching extent and consequences, and to consider their ‘dark sides.’ By presenting IDG as a framework, this article restores the conceptual importance and balance of IDG vis-à-vis FDG, paving the way for a better understanding of the ‘complete’ picture of disaster governance. This framework is then considered in a location where IDG might be expected to be more powerful or obvious, namely in a smaller, more isolated, and tightly knit community, characteristics which are stereotypically used to describe island locations. Thus, Svalbard in the Arctic has been chosen as a case study, including its handling of the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic, to explore the merits and challenges with shifting the politics of disaster governance towards IDG. |
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