Disaster Prevention and Management: Volume 17 Number 3 Social Perspectives on Disasters in Southeast Asia

The papers in this e-book were prepared for a panel of the 5th EuroSEAS conference held in Naples, Italy, between 12 and 15 September 2007. These include contributions from the academe as well as from the practitioner realm, notably NGOs, from Europe and Southeast Asia. The papers encompass case studies from rural and urban settings in Southeast Asia as well as conceptual reflections. All of the papers presented in this special e-book of DPM lie within the Hyogo Framework of Action (HFA), 2005 - 2015. The aim of the issue is to increase understanding of the social dimension of disasters in Southeast Asia, and provide the basis for future studies to address how to enhance disaster risk reduction in the region. Contents......Page 2 Cover......Page 1 Editorial Advisory Board......Page 5 The dominant hazard-focused viewpoint......Page 6 The alternative social perspective......Page 7 Contribution of the present DPM volume......Page 8 References......Page 9 Paper type......Page 11 Notes......Page 17 Corresponding author......Page 18 Introduction......Page 19 Floods in Jakarta......Page 20 Environmental factors which enhance flooding......Page 21 Anthropogenic causes of increasing floods......Page 23 Victims’ vulnerability and observed coping mechanisms, in the face of the 2007 flooding episode ......Page 25 Tracking the underpinning factors of vulnerability......Page 26 Which official strategy for enhancing disaster management?......Page 28 Outlooks......Page 29 References......Page 31 Corresponding author......Page 33 Introduction......Page 34 Methodology......Page 35 Seasonality and vulnerability in Batangas and Mindoro......Page 36 Responding to the lean season......Page 37 Negotiating for entitlements......Page 38 Seeking overseas employment......Page 39 Meal pattern adjustments......Page 40 Conclusions and recommendations......Page 41 References......Page 42 Corresponding author......Page 43 Paper type......Page 44 Introduction......Page 45 Methodology......Page 46 Increasing flooding problem in the delta of the Pampanga river......Page 47 The impact of increasing flooding on Sagrada community......Page 49 Coping with increasing flooding......Page 50 Closing recommendations......Page 53 References......Page 54 Corresponding author......Page 56 Introduction......Page 57 From exposure to susceptibility: risk-hazard and social constructivist approaches......Page 58 Vulnerability and poverty traps......Page 59 Research site and data collection......Page 60 Borrowing: a prime coping strategy in Bangladesh......Page 61 Debt capacity and repayment suspension......Page 63 Further research and policy implications......Page 64 References......Page 65 Corresponding author......Page 70 Paper type......Page 71 Introduction: conceptual debate on typology of post-tsunami assistance......Page 72 Location of NGOs’ post-tsunami field intervention......Page 73 Microentrepreneurship landscape and post-tsunami recovery-enabling environment......Page 74 Sustainable livelihood recovery assistance through microeconomic initiatives......Page 76 Post-tsunami challenges of new microentrepreneurship creation and development......Page 77 Post-disaster economic rehabilitation strategies: some suggestions from the tsunami experience......Page 79 Large-scale reconstruction versus grass-root recovery......Page 80 Grants in cash versus micro finance and microinsurance for economic rehabilitation......Page 82 Exploring the continuum or contiguum between humanitarian relief and development aid......Page 83 Post-tsunami economic rehabilitation versus development vulnerability......Page 84 Duration of post-tsunami livelihood recovery intervention......Page 85 References......Page 87 Further reading......Page 90 Paper type......Page 91 Introduction......Page 92 Review of educational needs to face tsunamis......Page 93 A scientific, pedagogic, and operational approach of tsunami risk prevention......Page 94 Specific educative actions among the Javanese population......Page 97 Involvement and education of both public and officials......Page 101 Researchers’ responsibility in operational application process......Page 102 Conclusion......Page 103 References......Page 104 Corresponding author......Page 107 Cover; CONTENTS; EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD; Guest editorial; Vulnerability, "innocent" disasters and the imperative of cultural understanding; Floods in Jakarta: when the extreme reveals daily structural constraints and mismanagement; Survival strategies to overcome inaagosto and nordeste in two coastal communities in Batangas and Mindoro, the Philippines; Living with increasing floods: insights from a rural Philippine community; Poverty alleviation or poverty traps? Microcredits and vulnerability in Bangladesh; From emergency relief to livelihood recovery.