TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2019//
TI  - I will not go, I cannot go: cultural and social limitations of disaster preparedness in Asia, Africa, and Oceania
JO  - Disasters
A1  - Ayeb-Karlsson, Sonja
A1  - Kniveton, Dominic
A1  - Cannon, Terry
A1  - van der Geest, Kees
A1  - Ahmed, Istiakh
A1  - Derrington, Erin M.
A1  - Florano, Ebinezer
A1  - Opoyo, Denis Opiyo
SP  - ePub
EP  - ePub
VL  - ePub
IS  - ePub
N2  - While much work has been invested in addressing the economic and technical basis of disaster preparedness, less effort has been directed towards understanding the cultural and social obstacles to and opportunities for disaster risk reduction. This paper presents local insights from five different national settings into the cultural and social contexts of disaster preparedness. In most cases, an early warning system was in place, but it failed to alert people to diverse environmental shocks. The research findings show that despite geographical and typological differences in these locations, the limitations of the systems were fairly similar. In Kenya, people received warnings, but from contradictory systems, whereas in the Philippines and on the island of Saipan, people did not understand the messages or take them seriously. In Bangladesh and Nepal, however, a deeper cultural and religious reasoning serves to explain disasters, and how to prevent them or find safety when they strike.<br><br>© 2019 The Authors. Disasters published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Overseas Development Institute.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0361-3666
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/disa.12404
ID  - ref1
ER  -