THE ROLE OF KNOWLEDGE IN NATURAL DISASTER MANAGEMENT Whose

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THE ROLE OF KNOWLEDGE IN NATURAL DISASTER
MANAGEMENT Whose How?
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OVERVIEW

• Science Disaster Management
• Local versus Expert Knowledge
• Processes for Incorporating Local Knowledge into
  Disaster Management
• Areas for Further Research

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SCIENCE DISASTER MANAGEMENT
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WHY INCLUDE ANYTHING OTHER THAN SCIENTIFIC
KNOWLEDGE?

• Positivist view
• science as neutral discovery process
• Social constructivist
• science as contextually derived view

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LOCAL VS. EXPERT KNOWLEDGE

• Expert Knowledge
• Prevention Preparedness Response
  Recovery
• Local Knowledge

Prior Experiences
Socioeconomic Influences
Continuous Integration of Risk
Perceptions
Trust in Experts
Social Networks
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INCORPORATING LOCAL KNOWLEDGE

• Not always interested in policy beyond event
  window
• Education vs. Fostering influence
• Three basic models of participation
• 1. Advisory
• 2. Collaboration
• 3. Dispute Resolution

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KNOWLEDGE NEEDS

• Limited measure on influence of ethnicity
• Effects of modern society and globalization on
  local communities and social networks.
• Need to improve access of policy makes to local
  knowledge slightly different than improve access
  of public to policy arena

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KNOWLEDGE NEEDS

• Studies that assess influence on risk perceptions
  along horizontal and vertical integrations of
  influence/power
• Linkages between formal and informal institutions