Eltinay, N and Egbu, C (2017) Disaster risk reduction conceptual framework: Open data for building resilience in critical infrastructure. In: Chan, P W and Neilson, C J (eds.) Proceedings of 33rd Annual ARCOM Conference, 4-6 September 2017, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, UK.
Abstract
Shaped by the type of hazards and degree of exposure, climate change is considered to be a factor in triggering conflict, causing the transformation in rural-urban migration patterns, emerging changes of social structures and increasing vulnerability of livelihoods in human and natural habitat ecological systems. The outbreak of the Syrian civil war in 2011 and the influx of refugees into Europe and Arab neighbouring countries, have sought the international community’s attention into climate change induced migration as a humanitarian crisis, that requires commitment into delivering effective, innovative, and principled organizational learning for humanitarian action. Evidence from previous literature indicates that “a sizable gap between investments in disaster resilience and conventional crisis response spending. According to some estimates, for every $100 spent in development aid, just 40 percent has been invested in reducing the impact of disasters. At the same time, disaster losses in developing nations amount to circa $862 billion, equivalent in value to one-third of all international development aid. This indicates the necessity to investigate the gaps in organizational learning structure of humanitarian aid agencies. An integrated approach to shift organizational information management from advocacy into action will be explored to translate the data generated from climate change and risk assessment models into interactive guidelines and implementation tools. The utilisation of Geospatial Information Technology will be applied to better understand the complexities of disaster risk management by the decision makers in humanitarian agencies, and communicate the social and physical exposure knowledge to the refugee vulnerable groups. This will result in developing an organizational culture of risk-resilience, where humanitarian action learning and accountability can be integrated for developing a model for sustainable built environment, and mobilise the existing organizational knowledge, to add a new dimension in the contexts of socio-ecological reconstruction and civil society cultural vitality.
| Item Type: | Conference Paper (Paper) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | built environment; disaster risk management; disaster risk reduction; Sendai framework; sustainable development goals; urban resilience |
| Index terms: | built environment, refugee, civil society, vulnerability, sustainable development goal, evidence, risk assessment, war, complexity, information technology, disaster risk reduction, organizational culture, climate change, implementation, critical infrastructure, estimate, urban resilience, social structure, open data, agency, exposure, dimension, conceptual framework, humanitarian, action learning, disaster risk, Europe, outbreak, reconstruction, integrated approach, organizational learning, transformation, developing nation, vulnerable group, international development, accountability, commitment, migration, disaster resilience |
| Subjects: | strategic management, evaluation and assessment methods, business, computing systems, climate science, curriculum design, psychology, principle, sustainability and resilience, contractual arrangements, health monitoring assessment and metrics, financial and cost management, theoretical framing, physical geography and landforms, health risk and incident analysis, public and environmental health, sustainable design, conflict and crisis studies, social theory, financial risk, professional development, development economics, data management, demography, sociology, building construction, infrastructure and transport systems, communities and social development, systems engineering, political science, environmental hazards, liability law |
| Topics: | Engineering Principles, Information Management, Research Practice, Geographical Context, Health and Safety, Business Strategy, Cost Management, Sustainability, Governance, Procurement, Stakeholder Management, International Construction, Ethics, Urban Studies, Digital Applications, Legal Issues, Education, Organizational Design |
| Descriptive scope: | 4 PCTA |
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