Nguyen-Trung Kien, Thuy Trinh Thi Thu, Anh Nguyen Phuong, Cong-Lem Ngo, Huyen Do Thi, Diu Le Thi, Giang Nguyen Hong, Simon Michael
Water Sensitive Cities Australia, Monash Sustainable Development Institute, Monash University, Australia.
Hanoi Association of People with Disabilities, Vietnam.
Disasters. 2025 Jul;49(3):e12686. doi: 10.1111/disa.12686.
Despite the growth of disaster scholarship, the topic of how and why climate-related disasters and extreme weather events vary among people with different types of disabilities remains unexplored. To help fill the gap, this study draws on a larger research project that was co-designed by Water Sensitive Cities Australia at Monash University and the Hanoi Association of People with Disabilities, Vietnam. It utilised the dataset of a rapid evidence review of 33 studies, key informant interviews with 26 local stakeholders, and 52 interviews with people with various disabilities in Hanoi and Nghe An province, Vietnam. Using thematic analysis, we identified eight themes pertaining to socially-constructed difficulties facing people with disabilities: barriers to accessing disaster risk information and warnings; difficulties in understanding emergencies; challenges in communicating needs; evacuation and mobility hurdles; decreased sense of belonging and isolation; increased risk of getting sick; increased risk of developing mental health and behavioural disorders; and disrupted livelihood and loss of income.
尽管灾害研究有所发展，但气候相关灾害和极端天气事件在不同类型残疾人中表现各异的方式及原因这一话题仍未得到探讨。为填补这一空白，本研究借鉴了一个更大的研究项目，该项目由澳大利亚莫纳什大学的水敏感城市研究机构与越南河内残疾人协会共同设计。它利用了对33项研究进行快速证据审查的数据集、对26名当地利益相关者的关键信息访谈，以及对越南河内和义安省52名不同残疾人士的访谈。通过主题分析，我们确定了与残疾人面临的社会建构困难相关的八个主题：获取灾害风险信息和预警的障碍；理解紧急情况的困难；沟通需求的挑战；疏散和行动障碍；归属感降低和孤立感；患病风险增加；出现心理健康和行为障碍的风险增加；以及生计中断和收入损失。
