TY - JOUR PY - 2023// TI - "Have a kit, make a plan, and be informed": does the recovery literature support our pervasive understanding of preparedness? JO - International journal of disaster risk reduction A1 - Johnson, Trevor A1 - Jensen, Jessica SP - e103897 EP - e103897 VL - 96 IS - N2 - Individual and household (IH) preparedness is critical for saving lives and reducing losses and damages, especially in developing and least developed countries and territories. However, its measurement in research is myopic, and its promotion in practice is narrow. Various stakeholders have echoed the need for a shift in the pervasive understanding of preparedness: "having a kit, making a plan, and being informed." This literature review identifies the factors/items that the IH recovery literature in the developing and least developed context recognized as relevant to helping people recover from disasters. The authors categorized the barriers and factors of IH recovery using the Holistic Individual Preparedness Model (HIPM). This study has found that the general understanding of preparedness is feeble and ungrounded, and that a novel, nuanced and grounded approach to what preparedness means and entails is required.
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LA - en SN - 2212-4209 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2023.103897 ID - ref1 ER -