- Title
- Profiling informal settlements for disaster risks
- Creator
- Abunyewah, Matthew; Gajendran, Thayaparan; Maund, Kim
- Relation
- 7th International Conference on Building Resilience (ICBR2017). 7th International Conference on Building Resilience: Using Scientific Knowledge to Inform Policy and Practice in Disaster Risk Reduction (ICBR2017) [presented in Procedia Engineering, Vol. 212] (Bangkok, Thailand 27-29 November, 2017) p. 238-245
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.proeng.2018.01.031
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Date
- 2018
- Description
- Informal settlements, where mostly the urban poor reside, tend to be located in hotspots of natural hazards such as floods, fire, earthquakes and tsunamis. The devastating impacts of these natural hazards on such settlements can be attributed to the higher levels of physical, economic, social and environmental vulnerability in conjunction with inadequate and poor level of disaster preparedness. Conceptualizing a detailed risk profile, in the context of informal settlement characteristics presents a starting point to which the impacts posed by environmental hazards can be addressed effectively. This paper develops a theoretical framework through literature review coupling the concepts of "disaster hazards", "vulnerability" and "informal settlements". The findings suggest that the policy environment (environmental/land use planning and communication) impacting the informal settlement characteristics (demographic, financial, social/poetical and locational/environmental) is key to managing disaster risk profile in informal settlements. The paper concludes by identifying five theoretical propositions that can assist in disaster preparedness.
- Subject
- informal settlement; vulnerability; disaster risk reduction; resilience; policy environment
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1390176
- Identifier
- uon:33007
- Identifier
- ISSN:1877-7058
- Rights
- © 2018 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license.
- Language
- eng
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