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What is the main focus of resilience politics in addressing vulnerabilities?
What is the main focus of resilience politics in addressing vulnerabilities?
Which of the following statements best describes the concept of recovery in the context of resilience?
Which of the following statements best describes the concept of recovery in the context of resilience?
What does robustness in resilience politics primarily seek to achieve?
What does robustness in resilience politics primarily seek to achieve?
Why might reforms in political order be seen as insufficient in reducing risk?
Why might reforms in political order be seen as insufficient in reducing risk?
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What is a potential downside of societal redesign in times of upheaval?
What is a potential downside of societal redesign in times of upheaval?
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Study Notes
Geographies of Risk: Resilience
- Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (2015-2030): Aims to manage disaster risk at all levels, applying to both natural and human-caused hazards.
- Goal: Prevent new disasters and reduce existing ones through integrated measures. Includes economic, structural, legal, social, health, cultural, educational, environmental, technological, political and institutional actions.
- Expected Outcome: Reduce losses in lives, livelihoods, health, and in economic, physical, social, cultural and environmental assets.
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Targets:
- Substantially reduce global disaster mortality and affected people by 2030 (comparing averages to 2005-2015).
- Reduce the direct economic disaster loss (GDP) by 2030.
- Substantially increase the number of countries with disaster risk reduction strategies.
- Upgrade and enhance international cooperation.
- Substantially increase multi-hazard early warning systems and access to disaster risk information and assessments.
Resilience Politics
- Robustness: Engineering systems to withstand disturbances may not always fully prevent harms.
- Recovery: Supporting vulnerable populations after a disaster should address the causes of prior vulnerability, not just the immediate effects.
- Reform: Political reforms must not just be symbolic but address systemic issues to meaningfully reduce risk.
- Redesign: Societal transformation to address underlying causes of vulnerability is a long-term approach that may be unwise during times of crisis.
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