From knowledge to action: Bridging gaps in disaster risk reduction
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...…paradigm, in line with the political ecology tradition of geography, asserts that disasters primarily affect those who are marginalized in everyday life and who lack access to resources and means of protection which are available to others with more power (Hewitt, 1983; Wisner et al., 2004)....
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...…are exogenous to local communities and often of national or global origin, e.g. unequal access to resources, poverty, gender and ethnic discrimination, and poor governance, among other structural cultural, social, economic and political constraints (Watts and Bohle, 1993; Wisner et al., 2004)....
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...It is further poorly fitted for harnessing local knowledge and addressing the root causes of vulnerability which are highly contextual (Wisner et al., 2004)....
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...First, the underlying social, cultural, economic and political causes of vulnerability are not usually viewed as military or civil-defence matters (Wisner et al., 2004)....
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...It refers to the larger relationships between the state and the people, or the ideology, values and authority imposed on the latter, the distribution of power within the society, and the level of priority given to DRR (Wisner et al., 2004)....
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