5th International Disaster and Risk Conference IDRC 2014 Integrative Risk Management - The role of science, technology & practice 24-28 August 2014 in Davos, Switzerland

1. Crisis Management –
Risk Communication and
Technologies for Public Resilience
Special Panel
26.8.2014 – 15:15

2. Policymaking
Research
Practice
Public Empowerment Policies
and research to enhance
crisis response abilities of the public
Prof. Marita Vos
University of Jyväskylä Finland

3. Empowerment > Resilience
• Empowerment: a process of developing
abilities to gain control on what’s important in
life, to mitigate the consequences of a disaster
• Resilience: being able to self-organize and
mobilise resources, adapt in the face of a
disturbance
• On the individual/ community/ societal level.
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4. Public Empowerment Policies
• Aim at enhancing resilience on various levels
• by structurally facilitating public
preparedness
• in a community approach to connect with
citizen networks and initiatives
• throughout all the phases of a crisis
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5. Whole community approach
• Using all available resources and social capital
• Acknowledging the importance of all that form
the network, rather than only counting on
formal specialised teams for fixed scenarios
• Collaboration
• Supported by technology
– not just to gather data and instruct
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6. Elements of the Roadmap
Public Empowerment Policies for crisis management
Policymaking
Research
Practice
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(1)
(2)
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7. Public empowerment initiatives (1)
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8. Discussion points (1)
• Technology created opportunities for
communication but also expectations.
• In the future, diverse open and closed crisis
mapping systems will co-exist.
• Integral approach, part of daily life;
avoid increasing feelings of unsafety.
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9. (2)
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10. Discussion points (2)
• Different levels of attention, often low
• How can community approaches be
emphasized in the Post 2015 Framework for
Disaster Risk Reduction?
Clear lead helps, e.g. UNISDR campaign ‘Making
cities resilient’
+ diverse initiatives, e.g. per sector, locally
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11. (3)
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12. Discussion points (3)
• Future research can clarify self-organization
of citizens, so that response organizations can
better connect with this.
• Look into modes of collaboration between
citizen groups and response organisations in
recent crises, and critically show barriers.
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13. PEP discussion FORUM
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14. Funded by the European Community’s 7th Framework Program - number 284927
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