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Enhancing disaster risk reduction and community resilience for sustainable development

Enhancing disaster risk reduction and community resilience for sustainable development The increasing frequency, extent and intensity of disasters, especially climate‐related disasters, have made people even more exposed to risks. Integrating effective disaster risk reduction (DRR) and community resilience‐building strategies into development policies, plans, programs and projects is now understood as being crucial to achieve the sustainable development goals (SDGs), especially in vulnerable and disaster‐prone regions. However, there are cultural, political and institutional constraints that hinder states from enhancing DRR and resilience and achieving sustainable development. There is a lack of knowledge of the social dimensions of risk and resilience, and of how resilience comes into action at the local community level. At all political and institutional levels, there is a lack of knowledge about which governance strategies and processes are needed: (1) to assess and reduce the multiple dimensions of risk in localities; and (2) to recognize, engage and empower resilience at the local community level and at all levels of governance.This special issue aims to help the scientific and policy communities overcome these constraints, and it contributes to social sciences, sustainability science, and the sustainable development discourse generally, by enhancing understanding of the knowledge production processes and governance strategies that are relevant to enhancing DRR and resilience and to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals in society.We welcome theoretical and empirical research that contributes to advances in understanding community wellbeing, vulnerability, capacity, and resilience; the social dimensions of disaster risk; and the likely strategies to enhance DRR and community resilience and achieve sustainable development at the local community level and at all levels of governance. Evidence‐based reflections on lessons learned from past failures, or from good governance and development practice, are also welcome.The ultimate goal of this special issue is to build transdisciplinary and transformative knowledge about the multiple dimensions of disaster risk and resilience in society, and about the appropriate governance and assessment strategies that would enable effective integration of DRR and community resilience‐building into sustainable development planning.All manuscripts submitted to the Special Issue will be peer‐reviewed. For pre‐submission queries, prospective contributors are encouraged to contact the corresponding special issue Guest Editors.Submission InstructionsAbstracts (not exceeding 500 words) and covering letters should be submitted for consideration by e‐mail to the Co‐Editors before 31 January 2022.Deadline for Submission of First Manuscript: 30 June, 2022 at e‐mail addresses:a.j.imperiale@rug.nl; frank.vanclay@rug.nlThe special issue will be guest edited by Dr Angelo Jonas Imperiale and Prof Frank VanclayDr Imperiale is a postdoc researcher at the Department of Cultural Geography, Faculty of Spatial Sciences (University of Groningen, The Netherlands). His research focusses on the resilience and wellbeing of local communities in disaster‐prone regions, and on how social impact assessment can help disaster management and development planning enhance DRR and resilience and achieve sustainable development.Prof Vanclay is Professor of Cultural Geography in the Faculty of Spatial Sciences at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. He writes in a number of fields of research, including social impact assessment, social license to operate, business and human rights, community engagement, and related topics. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Sustainable Development Wiley

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The increasing frequency, extent and intensity of disasters, especially climate‐related disasters, have made people even more exposed to risks. Integrating effective disaster risk reduction (DRR) and community resilience‐building strategies into development policies, plans, programs and projects is now understood as being crucial to achieve the sustainable development goals (SDGs), especially in vulnerable and disaster‐prone regions. However, there are cultural, political and institutional constraints that hinder states from enhancing DRR and resilience and achieving sustainable development. There is a lack of knowledge of the social dimensions of risk and resilience, and of how resilience comes into action at the local community level. At all political and institutional levels, there is a lack of knowledge about which governance strategies and processes are needed: (1) to assess and reduce the multiple dimensions of risk in localities; and (2) to recognize, engage and empower resilience at the local community level and at all levels of governance.This special issue aims to help the scientific and policy communities overcome these constraints, and it contributes to social sciences, sustainability science, and the sustainable development discourse generally, by enhancing understanding of the knowledge production processes and governance strategies that are relevant to enhancing DRR and resilience and to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals in society.We welcome theoretical and empirical research that contributes to advances in understanding community wellbeing, vulnerability, capacity, and resilience; the social dimensions of disaster risk; and the likely strategies to enhance DRR and community resilience and achieve sustainable development at the local community level and at all levels of governance. Evidence‐based reflections on lessons learned from past failures, or from good governance and development practice, are also welcome.The ultimate goal of this special issue is to build transdisciplinary and transformative knowledge about the multiple dimensions of disaster risk and resilience in society, and about the appropriate governance and assessment strategies that would enable effective integration of DRR and community resilience‐building into sustainable development planning.All manuscripts submitted to the Special Issue will be peer‐reviewed. For pre‐submission queries, prospective contributors are encouraged to contact the corresponding special issue Guest Editors.Submission InstructionsAbstracts (not exceeding 500 words) and covering letters should be submitted for consideration by e‐mail to the Co‐Editors before 31 January 2022.Deadline for Submission of First Manuscript: 30 June, 2022 at e‐mail addresses:a.j.imperiale@rug.nl; frank.vanclay@rug.nlThe special issue will be guest edited by Dr Angelo Jonas Imperiale and Prof Frank VanclayDr Imperiale is a postdoc researcher at the Department of Cultural Geography, Faculty of Spatial Sciences (University of Groningen, The Netherlands). His research focusses on the resilience and wellbeing of local communities in disaster‐prone regions, and on how social impact assessment can help disaster management and development planning enhance DRR and resilience and achieve sustainable development.Prof Vanclay is Professor of Cultural Geography in the Faculty of Spatial Sciences at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. He writes in a number of fields of research, including social impact assessment, social license to operate, business and human rights, community engagement, and related topics.

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Published: Aug 1, 2022

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