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Entries for Local knowledge
Preparedness actions for all vulnerable groups during heat waves
30.09.2018
Cultural Factors: Local knowledge, Age-related roles
Hazards: Natural hazards
Disaster Phases: Preparedness, Response
Types of Actors Concerned: Healthcare and emergency services
EMSC (Euro-Mediterranean Seismological Centre) tools for detecting felt earthquakes and for meeting witnesses' immediate information needs, via on social media, websites and a mobile app
30.09.2018
Cultural Factors: Local knowledge, Communication, Social networks, Access and use of infrastructure/services
Hazards: Natural hazards
Disaster Phases: Prevention, Preparedness, Response, Recovery
Types of Actors Concerned: Non-active citizens, Active citizens, National research bodies, Healthcare and emergency services
Cultural and interest differences among LastQuake users
30.09.2018
Cultural Factors: Density of active citizenship, Communication, Local knowledge, Open-mindedness
Hazards: Natural hazards
Disaster Phases: Response
Types of Actors Concerned: Non-active citizens, Active citizens, NGOs, Healthcare and emergency services, National civil protection body, National research bodies
LastQuake app made improvements based on feedback and best practices
30.09.2018
Cultural Factors: Local knowledge, Density of active citizenship
Hazards: Natural hazards
Disaster Phases: Response
Types of Actors Concerned: Active citizens, NGOs
Personal involvement increases citizens' willingness to engage in activities aimed at preserving personal safety
30.09.2018
Cultural Factors: Local knowledge
Hazards: Natural hazards
Disaster Phases: Prevention, Preparedness
Types of Actors Concerned: Non-active citizens
Differences between natural and technological disasters in terms of suddenness, power, destructiveness, predictability and low point of the event
30.09.2018
Cultural Factors: Individual/collective memory, Local knowledge
Hazards: Natural hazards, Man-made non-intentional hazards or emergency situations, Man-made intentional hazards
Disaster Phases: Recovery, Prevention
Types of Actors Concerned: Non-active citizens, National civil protection body, Local authorities, Government
Adaptive patterns to risk are linked to cultural practices and location
30.09.2018
Cultural Factors: Local knowledge
Hazards: Natural hazards, Man-made non-intentional hazards or emergency situations, Man-made intentional hazards
Disaster Phases: Prevention
Types of Actors Concerned: Non-active citizens
Concepts of disasters and risk cultures are often linked to cultural geographies
30.09.2018
Cultural Factors: Local knowledge
Hazards: Natural hazards, Man-made non-intentional hazards or emergency situations, Man-made intentional hazards
Disaster Phases: Prevention, Preparedness
Types of Actors Concerned: Non-active citizens
Societies and cultures are culturally, politically and environmentally distinctive
30.09.2018
Cultural Factors: Local knowledge
Hazards: Natural hazards, Man-made non-intentional hazards or emergency situations, Man-made intentional hazards
Disaster Phases: Prevention, Preparedness
Types of Actors Concerned: Non-active citizens, National research bodies
Larger number of hazards in the non-western world not simply a question of geography
30.09.2018
Cultural Factors: Local knowledge
Hazards: Natural hazards
Disaster Phases: Prevention, Preparedness, Response, Recovery, All disaster phases
Types of Actors Concerned: National civil protection body, Local authorities, Non-active citizens, Active citizens, Entrepreneurs, Media, Government, National research bodies, Red Cross, NGOs, Military, Law enforcement agencies, Healthcare and emergency services, European Civil Protection Mechanism, UN and other international organisations, All types of actors
A community's local knowledge has value in dealing with disasters
30.09.2018
Cultural Factors: Local knowledge, Norms/values
Hazards: Natural hazards
Disaster Phases: Prevention, Preparedness, Recovery, Response, All disaster phases
Types of Actors Concerned: Non-active citizens
Capacities of local communities and their culture is important in defining their level of preparedness, response and recovery from a disaster
30.09.2018
Cultural Factors: Local knowledge
Hazards: Natural hazards, Man-made non-intentional hazards or emergency situations, Man-made intentional hazards
Disaster Phases: Prevention, Preparedness, Response, Recovery, All disaster phases
Types of Actors Concerned: Non-active citizens
In some cases, local knowledge is essential in providing reliable information about the area of intervention
30.09.2018
Cultural Factors: Local knowledge
Hazards: Natural hazards
Disaster Phases: Prevention, Preparedness
Types of Actors Concerned: Non-active citizens
Experts should consider local knowledge a legitimate type of learning, and incorporate it into strategies and policies
30.09.2018
Cultural Factors: Local knowledge, Norms/values
Hazards: Natural hazards
Disaster Phases: Prevention, Preparedness
Types of Actors Concerned: Non-active citizens, Law enforcement agencies, National research bodies
Alternative knowledge strategies and local risk cultures are important in policy and decision-making processes, both for experts and non-experts
30.09.2018
Cultural Factors: Norms/values, Local knowledge
Hazards: Natural hazards
Disaster Phases: Prevention, Preparedness, Response, Recovery, All disaster phases
Types of Actors Concerned: Non-active citizens
Popular explanations of threats and disasters are important to the cultures in question
30.09.2018
Cultural Factors: Local knowledge
Hazards: Natural hazards
Disaster Phases: Prevention, Preparedness, Response, Recovery, All disaster phases
Types of Actors Concerned: Non-active citizens
For natural hazards linked to geographical location, risk perception tends to decrease as distance from the risk source increases
30.09.2018
Cultural Factors: Individual/collective memory, Local knowledge, Socio-economic status, Ethnicity
Hazards: Natural hazards
Disaster Phases: Prevention
Types of Actors Concerned: Non-active citizens
Comparison of risk perception levels and its correlates among communities affected by natural disasters
30.09.2018
Cultural Factors: Local knowledge, Individual/collective memory
Hazards: Natural hazards
Disaster Phases: Prevention
Types of Actors Concerned: Non-active citizens
Perception of risk is different across countries
30.09.2018
Cultural Factors: Local knowledge, Customs/traditions/rituals
Hazards: Natural hazards
Disaster Phases: Prevention
Types of Actors Concerned: Non-active citizens
In post-communist member states, the risk of flooding tends to be perceived only during extreme events
30.09.2018
Cultural Factors: Worldviews, Power relations, Local knowledge
Hazards: Natural hazards
Disaster Phases: Prevention, Preparedness
Types of Actors Concerned: Government, Non-active citizens
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