School of Built Environment, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
College of Business and Law, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia.
Disasters. 2025 Jan;49(1):e12655. doi: 10.1111/disa.12655. Epub 2024 Sep 4.
This paper challenges current approaches to undertaking community-centred disaster recovery. Community-centred approaches are widely recognised as 'the gold standard' for effective recovery from disasters. Yet, they are rarely applied well enough in practice. Challenges include the 'authority' culture of command-and-control agencies, the emphasis on discrete recovery time frames, and the reluctance to relinquish centralised control. The paper focuses on people's experiences of community-centred recovery in New South Wales, Australia, which has experienced severe fires and floods since 2019. We undertook key informant interviews and an online survey to inquire into how community-centred recovery is enacted. Our work uncovered widespread dissatisfaction with current practices. The paper discusses key themes emerging from the research and ends with a call to change how community-centred recovery is framed and conducted by responding organisations, to include the underlying causes of vulnerability in recovery, to measure success differently, and to alter the narrative of who 'owns' disasters.
本文对当前以社区为中心的灾害恢复方法提出了挑战。以社区为中心的方法被广泛认为是从灾害中有效恢复的“黄金标准”。然而，它们在实践中很少得到很好的应用。挑战包括指挥和控制机构的“权威”文化、对离散恢复时间框架的强调，以及不愿放弃集中控制。本文重点关注澳大利亚新南威尔士州以社区为中心的恢复的人们的经验，该州自 2019 年以来经历了严重的火灾和洪水。我们进行了重点知情人访谈和在线调查，以了解社区为中心的恢复是如何实施的。我们的工作发现，人们对当前的做法普遍不满。本文讨论了研究中出现的主要主题，并呼吁通过响应组织改变以社区为中心的恢复的框架和实施方式，包括在恢复中脆弱性的根本原因，以不同的方式衡量成功，并改变谁“拥有”灾难的说法。
