Building resilience against biological hazards and pandemics: COVID-19 and its implications for the Sendai Framework
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2020 has become the year of coping with COVID-19. This year was to be the "super year" for sustainability, a year of strengthening global actions to accelerate the transformations required for achieving the 2030 agenda. We argue that 2020 can and must be a year of both. Thus we call for more utilisation of the health-emergency disaster risk management (Health-EDRM) framework to complement current responses to COVID-19 and the patent risk of similar phenomena in the future. To make our case, we examine current responses to COVID-19 and their implications for the SFDRR. We argue that current mechanisms and strategies for disaster resilience, as outlined in the SFDRR, can enhance responses to epidemics or global pandemics such as COVID-19. In this regard, we make several general and DRR-specific recommendations. These recommendations concern knowledge and science provision in understanding disaster and health-related emergency risks, the extension of disaster risk governance to manage both disaster risks and potential health-emergencies, particularly for humanitarian coordination aspects; and the strengthening of community-level preparedness and response.
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Social support during disasters is a further central part of local disaster resilience.
“Social support during disasters is a further central part of local disaster resilience. Social support includes daily exchange and social networks with others (Scherer and Cho 2003; Djalante et al. 2020) and the acquisition of volunteers.”
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Section 3.2.6 says community-based disaster preparedness is crucial and that community networks can aid warnings, while social linkages may influence risk perception. This supports a role for social networks in local preparedness, but it does not describe daily exchange or establish social support as a central part of disaster resilience. The citation appears before the separate mention of acquiring volunteers. (LLM, conf=0.84)
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Heinkel, S.-B., Thiebes, B., Than, Z. M., Aung, T., Kyi, T. T., Mar, W. L., Oo, S. S., Miller, C., Willkomm, M., Maung, W., et al. (2022) · Natural Hazards · doi:10.1007/s11069-022-05226-w · Cited by 43 · see citing works
- Authors
- Djalante, R., Shaw, R., & DeWit, A.
- Affiliations
- United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (JP)
- Keio University (JP)
- Rikkyo University (JP)
- Corresponding author
- Shaw, Rajib
- Venue
- Progress in Disaster Science
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2020-04
- Volume
- 6
- Pages
- 100080
- ISSN
- 2590-0617 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC7148717
- OpenAlex
- W3012657863
- Cited by
- 344
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 23 · 2025: 26 · 2024: 26 · 2023: 49 · 2022: 67 · 2021: 85 · 2020: 68
- FWCI
- 10.75
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Progress in Disaster Science (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- UNU Collections (United Nations University) (submittedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Disaster Management and Resilience
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › Emergency Medical Services › Disaster Response and Management
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Legal, Health, Environmental and COVID-19 Challenges
- Keywords
- COVID-19 pandemic, Sendai Framework, pandemic preparedness, disaster resilience, disaster risk governance, humanitarian coordination, health emergencies, 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
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