@book {bnh-6848, title = {Natural Hazards and Disaster Justice: Challenges for Australia and Its Neighbours}, year = {2020}, pages = {368}, publisher = {Palgrave Macmillan}, organization = {Palgrave Macmillan}, edition = {1}, address = {London}, abstract = {

This book explores policy, legal, and practice implications regarding the emerging field of disaster justice, using case studies of floods, bushfires, heatwaves, and earthquakes in Australia and Southern and South-east Asia. It reveals geographic locational and social disadvantage and structural inequities that lead to increased risk and vulnerability to disaster, and which impact ability to recover post-disaster.\  Written by multidisciplinary disaster researchers, the book addresses all stages of the disaster management cycle, demonstrating or recommending just approaches to preparation, response and recovery. It notably reveals how procedural, distributional and interactional aspects of justice enhance resilience, and offers a cutting edge analysis of disaster justice for managers, policy makers, researchers in justice, climate change or emergency management.

}, keywords = {disaster justice, Emergency management, environmental sociology, framework, Natural hazards, policies}, isbn = {978-981-15-0466-2}, issn = {978-981-15-0465-5}, doi = {10.1007/978-981-15-0466-2}, url = {https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9789811504655$\#$aboutBook}, author = {Anna Lukasiewicz and Claudia Baldwin} } @conference {bnh-4797, title = {The emerging imperative of disaster justice}, booktitle = {AFAC18}, year = {2018}, month = {09/2018}, publisher = {Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC}, organization = {Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC}, address = {Perth}, abstract = {

Disaster justice, a term coined by Verchick (2012), is an emerging field of study focusing on the role of societies, specifically their governing structures, in creating and perpetuating vulnerabilities, inequalities and injustices that are magnified by natural hazards. Disaster justice is a problem of governance, rather than nature or luck, that elicits moral claims for effective and fair disaster management (Douglass \& Miller, 2016). Verchick makes this point succinctly: {\textquotedblleft}In the Anthropocene, there is no such thing as a natural disaster. Anthropogenic carbon emissions amplify the force and frequency of many environmentally triggered events. Land-use planning decisions squeeze some populous communities into the unsafe places where those escalated forces are more likely to land{\textquotedblright} (Verchick, 2016, p. 6). This emerging field thus draws heavily on the related concepts of environmental justice and climate justice.
In this review paper, we first outline how disaster management constitutes a justice issue. We then briefly introduce the different justice concepts applicable to disaster management and finally propose what the concept of disaster justice can do for disaster management.

}, author = {Anna Lukasiewicz and Dovers, Steve} } @article {bnh-3466, title = {Shared responsibility: the who, what and how}, journal = {Environmental Hazards}, year = {2017}, month = {03/2017}, abstract = {

As natural disasters increase around the world and stretch the\ capacities of emergency services, national governments and\ international institutions have stressed the importance of shared\ responsibility; the idea that all actors within a society have some\ obligations in disaster management and must work collectively to\ reduce disaster risk. However, the exact balance between\ individual and government responsibility is not yet established\ and continually contested, especially after major events. In\ Australia, the National Strategy for Disaster Resilience (NSDR) is\ the overarching policy framework for disaster risk management\ and aims to create resilient communities through an emphasis on\ shared responsibility and empowerment. Through a literature\ review and document analysis of the NSDR and associated policy\ documents, we clarify, organise and operationalise the necessarily\ general policy goal of shared responsibility. We first analyse how\ the NSDR conceptualises communities to discover which\ community actors are mentioned. We then identify the\ responsibilities it prescribes or implies for these different actors\ and consider the types of policy instruments that are relevant to\ disaster risk management. Our analysis reveals a tension between\ the NSDR{\textquoteright}s placement of government at the centre of disaster risk\ management, and its other, less well-explained emphasis on\ community empowerment.

}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17477891.2017.1298510}, author = {Anna Lukasiewicz and Dovers, Steve and Michael Eburn} }