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- People in Disasters Conference - Holding onto the Lessons Disasters Teach
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A video of the keynote presentation by Alexander C. McFarlane during the third plenary of the 2016 People in Disasters Conference. McFarlane is a Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Adelaide and the Heady of the Centre for Traumatic Stress Studies. The presentation is titled, "Holding onto the Lessons Disasters Teach".
The abstract for this presentation reads as follows:
Disasters are sentinel points in the life of the communities affected. They bring an unusual focus to community mental health. In so doing, they provide unique opportunities for better understanding and caring for communities. However, one of the difficulties in the disaster field is that many of the lessons from previous disasters are frequently lost. If anything, Norris (in 2006) identified that the quality of disaster research had declined over the previous 25 years. What is critical is that a longitudinal perspective is taken of representative cohorts. Equally, the impact of a disaster should always be judged against the background mental health of the communities affected, including emergency service personnel. Understandably, many of those who are particularly distressed in the aftermath of a disaster are people who have previously experienced a psychiatric disorder. It is important that disaster services are framed against knowledge of this background morbidity and have a broad range of expertise to deal with the emerging symptoms. Equally, it is critical that a long-term perspective is considered rather than short-term support that attempts to ameliorate distress. Future improvement of disaster management depends upon sustaining a body of expertise dealing with the consequences of other forms of traumatic stress such as accidents. This expertise can be redirected to co-ordinate and manage the impact of larger scale events when disasters strike communities. This presentation will highlight the relevance of these issues to the disaster planning in a country such as New Zealand that is prone to earthquakes.
- Creator(s)
- Alexander C. McFarlane,
- Date
- 8:51pm 25th February 2016
- Tags
- People in Disasters, conference, Professor Alexander C. McFarlane, keynote, plenary, lessons, disaster, community, mental health, psychiatric, stress, Health and Wellbeing
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- People in Disasters Conference - A Community Wellbeing Centric Approach to Disaster Resilience
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A video of a presentation by Dr Scott Miles during the Community Resilience Stream of the 2016 People in Disasters Conference. The presentation is titled, "A Community Wellbeing Centric Approach to Disaster Resilience".
The abstract for this presentation reads as follows:
A higher bar for advancing community disaster resilience can be set by conducting research and developing capacity-building initiatives that are based on understanding and monitoring community wellbeing. This presentation jumps off from this view, arguing that wellbeing is the most important concept for improving the disaster resilience of communities. The presentation uses examples from the 2010 and 2011 Canterbury earthquakes to illustrate the need and effectiveness of a wellbeing-centric approach. While wellbeing has been integrated in the Canterbury recovery process, community wellbeing and resilience need to guide research and planning. The presentation unpacks wellbeing in order to synthesize it with other concepts that are relevant to community disaster resilience. Conceptualizing wellbeing as either the opportunity for or achievement of affiliation, autonomy, health, material needs, satisfaction, and security is common and relatively accepted across non-disaster fields. These six variables can be systematically linked to fundamental elements of resilience. The wellbeing variables are subject to potential loss, recovery, and adaptation based on the empirically established ties to community identity, such as sense of place. Variables of community identity are what translate the disruption, damage, restoration, reconstruction, and reconfiguration of a community's different critical services and capital resources to different states of wellbeing across a community that has been impacted by a hazard event. With reference to empirical research and the Canterbury case study, the presentation integrates these insights into a robust framework to facilitate meeting the challenge of raising the standard of community disaster resilience research and capacity building through development of wellbeing-centric approaches.
- Creator(s)
- Scott Miles,
- Date
- 1:47am 27th February 2016
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- People in Disasters, conference, Dr Scott Miles, disaster, resilience, wellbeing, community, identity, Community Resilience Stream, Health and Wellbeing
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- QuakeStory 803
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- A story submitted by Brenda Greene to the QuakeStories website.
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- Brenda Greene
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- community, insurance, infrastructure damage, infrastructure, building damage, cultural impact, personal narrative, disaster narrative, quakecore, earthquake policy
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- Ruth Gardner's Blog 12/03/2011: Day 19, 10am - inside the red zone
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- An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 12 March 2011 entitled, "Day 19, 10am - inside the red zone".
- Creator(s)
- Ruth Gardner
- Date
- 1:00pm 12th March 2011
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- quakecore, earthquake art, building damage, earthquake recovery, community, disaster management
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- Ruth Gardner's Blog 30/07/2011: Lost Landmarks
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- An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 30 July 2011 entitled, "Lost Landmarks".
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- Ruth Gardner
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- 12:00pm 30th July 2011
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- quakecore, community, building damage, disaster management, cultural heritage, cultural history, architecture
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- Ruth Gardner's Blog 10/07/2014: Convention Concept
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- An entry from Ruth Gardner's Blog for 10 July 2014 entitled, "Convention Concept".
- Creator(s)
- Ruth Gardner
- Date
- 12:00pm 10th July 2014
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- quakecore, community, financial impact, tourism, tourism disaster recovery, recovery, earthquake recovery
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- Deb Robertson's Blog 20/03/2013: Road works, Road cones and a Triangle Quilt
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- An entry from Deb Robertson's blog for 20 March 2013 entitled, "Road works, Road cones and a Triangle Quilt".
- Creator(s)
- Deb Robertson
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- 1:00pm 20th March 2013
- Tags
- business impact, business loss, job insecurity, economic effect, infrastructure damage, infrastructure, building damage, earthquake recovery, recovery, community, psychological impact, psychological resilience, disaster management, quakecore, cultural impact, cultural resilience, communityb resilience, community recovery
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- Deb Robertson's Blog 07/05/2013: My Thoughts on the Rebuild of Christchurch
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- An entry from Deb Robertson's blog for 7 May 2013 entitled, "My Thoughts on the Rebuild of Christchurch".
- Creator(s)
- Deb Robertson
- Date
- 12:00pm 7th May 2013
- Tags
- quakecore, earthquake art, infrastructure damage, infrastructure, building damage, financial impact, recovery, earthquake recovery, restoration, cultural impact, cultural heritage, architecture, community, community organisations, tourism, tourism disaster recovery
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- CanCERN Newsletter 35, 27 April 2012
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- A copy of the CanCERN online newsletter published on 27 April 2012
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- 12:00pm 27th April 2012
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- community, quakecore, community activism, community organisations, community recovery, government response, disaster management, earthquake recovery, CERA, EQC, insurance, recovery, communication, red zone
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- CanCERN Newsletter 36, 4 May 2012
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- A copy of the CanCERN online newsletter published on 4 May 2012
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- 12:00pm 4th May 2012
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- community, quakecore, community recovery, community organisations, community activism, CERA, EQC, disaster management, government response, earthquake recovery, insurance, red zone, recovery, earthquake sustainability, environmental sustainability, sustainability
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- CanCERN Newsletter 30, 16 March 2012
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- A copy of the CanCERN online newsletter published on 16 March 2012
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- 1:00pm 16th March 2012
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- community, quakecore, CERA, community recovery, earthquake recovery, community organisations, community activism, EQC, insurance, economic effect, disaster management, recovery, red zone, communication
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- CanCERN Newsletter 34, 20 April 2012
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- A copy of the CanCERN online newsletter published on 20 April 2012
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- 12:00pm 20th April 2012
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- community, quakecore, community recovery, earthquake recovery, community organisations, community activism, disaster management, red zone, government response, communication, recovery, CERA, EQC, insurance
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- CanCERN Newsletter 37, 11 May 2012
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- A copy of the CanCERN online newsletter published on 11 May 2012
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- 12:00pm 11th May 2012
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- recovery, community, geography, seismology, geology, disaster management, government response, insurance, EQC, CERA, community organisations, community activism, community recovery, earthquake recovery, relocation, red zone
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- CanCERN Newsletter 31, 23 March 2012
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- A copy of the CanCERN online newsletter published on 23 March 2012
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- 1:00pm 23rd March 2012
- Tags
- community, community recovery, community organisations, community activism, CERA, EQC, red zone, disaster management, government response, communication, risk evaluation, recovery, insurance, red zone, earthquake art
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- CanCERN Newsletter 33, 13 April 2012
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- A copy of the CanCERN online newsletter published on 13 April 2012
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- 12:00pm 13th April 2012
- Tags
- recovery, community, quakecore, community organisations, community activism, community recovery, CERA, volunteerism, EQC, insurance, communication, disaster management, red zone, earthquake recovery
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- CanCERN Newsletter 32, 30 March 2012
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- A copy of the CanCERN online newsletter published on 30 March 2012
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- 1:00pm 30th March 2012
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- recovery, community, quakecore, media, community recovery, community organisations, community activism, EQC, insurance, CERA, government response, disaster management, red zone, earthquake recovery
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- CanCERN Newsletter 75, 8 March 2013
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- A copy of the CanCERN online newsletter published on 8 March 2013
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- 1:00pm 8th March 2013
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- recovery, community, quakecore, cultural resilience, community resilience, psychological resilience, resilience, earthquake recovery, psychological recovery, community recovery, CERA, EQC, disaster management, red zone, communication, community activism, community organisations, communication
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- CanCERN Newsletter 76, 15 March 2013
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- A copy of the CanCERN online newsletter published on 15 March 2013
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- 1:00pm 15th March 2013
- Tags
- quakecore, communication, EQC, CERA, insurance, disaster management, community recovery, community activism, community organisations, red zone, recovery, earthquake recovery, community, environmental sustainability
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- CanCERN Newsletter 77, 22 March 2013
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- A copy of the CanCERN online newsletter published on 22 March 2013
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- 1:00pm 22nd March 2013
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- recovery, community, quakecore, communication, government response, disaster management, CERA, EQC, insurance, community activism, community organisations, community recovery, red zone, earthquake recovery
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- CanCERN Newsletter 72, 15 February 2013
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- A copy of the CanCERN online newsletter published on 15 February 2013
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- 1:00pm 15th February 2013
- Tags
- quakecore, disaster management, community activism, community recovery, community organisations, cultural response, red zone, EQC, CERA, earthquake recovery, recovery, government response, earthquake sustainability, environmental sustainability, community, infrastructure damage