Independent Researcher, United Kingdom.
Professor of Geography at King's College London, United Kingdom.
Disasters. 2021 Jan;45(1):202-223. doi: 10.1111/disa.12423. Epub 2020 Jun 23.
The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 and the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals call for action to build back better in ways that leave no one behind. At the same time, ensuring a local voice is increasingly central to humanitarian engagement. These aims contrast with limited analysis of how local actors might be supported in these respects during response and recovery, and how far recommendations are specific or generalisable across richer and poorer national contexts. The paper begins by comparing lessons learnt by survivors and community organisations in Sint Maarten, Dutch Caribbean, following a high-income state-led response to Hurricane Irma in 2017 with the priorities of lower income, humanitarian-led endeavours. The differences reveal the importance of economic resources as the basis for individual self-reliance and a fragmented civil society with limited leadership ambitions in Sint Maarten. Strong cross-cultural alignment nevertheless allows for a globally-relevant and yet contextually-sensitive framework for survivor-led action and reconstruction.
《2015-2030 年仙台减少灾害风险框架》和联合国可持续发展目标呼吁采取行动，以更好的方式重建，不让任何人掉队。与此同时，确保地方声音越来越成为人道主义参与的核心。这些目标与在应对和恢复期间如何支持地方行为体在这些方面，以及建议在较富裕和较贫穷的国家背景下具体还是普遍适用的程度方面的有限分析形成对比。本文首先比较了 2017 年高收入国家主导应对飓风“艾尔玛”之后，荷属圣马丁幸存者和社区组织吸取的经验教训，以及低收入、人道主义主导努力的优先事项。这些差异揭示了经济资源作为个人自力更生和圣马丁碎片化的公民社会缺乏领导抱负的基础的重要性。然而，强大的跨文化一致性确实为幸存者主导的行动和重建提供了一个具有全球相关性且对背景敏感的框架。
