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Hi Brian,<BR>
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I am regular reader of radix. I am working in Disaster Preparedness in India. I am also postgrad in Disaster Management and Sustainable Development from University of Northumbria, UK. <BR>
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What I learnt from your mail is that you are looking for Disaster preparedness among minority groups in USA. I am not sure how much help it would if you get to know disaster preparedness among minority communities in India.<BR>
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There are lot of literature available.<BR>
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Thanks,<BR>
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Subhrakali<BR>
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Lutheran World Service India.<BR> <BR>Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 12:00:10 -0800<BR>From: radix-request@ecie.org<BR>Subject: Radix Digest, Vol 109, Issue 1<BR>To: radix@ecie.org<BR><BR><PRE>Send Radix mailing list submissions to<BR> radix@ecie.org<BR> <BR>To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit<BR> <A href="http://ecie.org/mailman/listinfo/radix">http://ecie.org/mailman/listinfo/radix</A><BR>or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to<BR> radix-request@ecie.org<BR> <BR>You can reach the person managing the list at<BR> radix-owner@ecie.org<BR> <BR>When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific<BR>than "Re: Contents of Radix digest..."<BR></PRE><BR><BR>--Forwarded Message Attachment--<BR>From: brmcadoo@vassar.edu<BR>To: radix@ecie.org<BR>Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 15:45:49 -0800<BR>Subject: [Radix] Disaster Preparedness in Minority Communities?<BR><BR><BR><BR>Colleagues,<BR><BR><BR>I am curious if anyone has information regarding disaster preparedness in<BR>marginalized communities? <BR><BR><BR>In the USA, these communities more often then not are minority<BR>communities, as dramatically illustrated by Hurricane Katrina. <BR>There is a great deal of concern here in the San Francisco (California)<BR>Bay Area about an inevitable earthquake on the Heyward fault, which runs<BR>directly underneath the heavily populated communities of Berkeley and<BR>Oakland. While there is a lot of work being done to raise awareness<BR>of this hazard, I am not aware of any efforts deliberately targeting<BR>minority communities, and I worry that because of their marginalization,<BR>they will be overlooked.<BR><BR><BR>Is there an academic literature out there looking into racial/ethnic<BR>demographics and disaster preparedness? I imagine that there might<BR>be some related to indigenous knowledge, but again I expose my ignorance<BR>here.<BR><BR><BR>Thank you for your help.<BR><BR><BR>Brian<BR><BR>
<BR>Brian G. McAdoo<BR><BR>Blaustein Visiting Professor<BR><BR>Stanford University<BR><BR>473 Via Ortega, Rm 139<BR><BR>Stanford, CA 94305-4215<BR><BR>650.721.2398 (office)<BR><BR>845.249.9561 (mobile)<BR><BR><BR>Associate Professor of Earth Science<BR><BR>Department of Earth Science and Geography<BR><BR>Box 735<BR><BR>Vassar College<BR><BR>Poughkeepsie, NY 12604<BR><BR><BR>On leave at Stanford University<BR><BR>July 2008-July 2009<BR><BR><BR><FONT face=Webdings color=#008040 size=4>ü</FONT><BR><FONT face="Arial Narrow, Helvetica" color=#008040>Please consider the<BR>environment before printing this email.</FONT><FONT color=#006666><BR><BR><BR></FONT><BR><BR><BR><BR>--Forwarded Message Attachment--<BR>From: ilan_kelman@hotmail.com<BR>To: radix@ecie.org<BR>Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 09:51:00 +0000<BR>Subject: RE: [Radix] Disaster Preparedness in Minority Communities?þ<BR><BR><PRE> <BR>Dear Brian (and Radix):<BR> <BR>Your email covers several topics simultaneously, all with their own literature. I provide some illustrative (far from comprehensive) examples for each:<BR> <BR>(i) Disaster-related activities in "marginalized" communities.<BR> <BR>Some researchers object to the term "marginalized", but there are, of course, many definitions and interpretations of it. The example that is of most interest to me is islands, often termed "small islands" or "small, isolated islands", for which material is available at <A href="http://www.islandvulnerability.org/">http://www.islandvulnerability.org</A> As well, a book by James Lewis <A href="http://developmentbookshop.com/product_info.php?products_id=463">http://developmentbookshop.com/product_info.php?products_id=463</A> discusses aspects of proportional impact / proportional vulnerability, setting up a useful theoretical foundation for examining the vulnerability of marginalized people, of marginalized places, or of marginalized people in marginalized places, each of which again represents its own discourse. James Lewis' work <A href="http://datum.gn.apc.org/"
>http://datum.gn.apc.org</A> is particularly relevant to islands and other isolated locations which are often considered to be or labelled as "marginal" or "peripheral"<BR> <BR>(ii) Disaster-related activities to assist minority communities or minorities in communities.<BR> <BR>One of the extensive discourses on this topic relates to power structures,<BR>empowerment, and vulnerability. Ken Hewitt, Ben Wisner, Terry Cannon, and Tony Oliver-Smith have contributed extensively to research and practice on this topic. See, for example:<BR> <BR>Hewitt K. (ed.), Interpretations of Calamity from the Viewpoint of Human Ecology, Allen & Unwin, London (1983)<BR> <BR>Hewitt K., Preventable Disasters: Addressing Social Vulnerability, Institutional Risk, and Civil Ethics, Geographisches Rundscahu: International Edition, 3(1), 43-52 (2007)<BR> <BR>Oliver-Smith T., The Martyred City: Death and Rebirth in the Andes, University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, NM (1986)<BR> <BR>Wisner, B. "Disaster Vulnerability: Scale, Power, and Daily Life." Geojournal 30,2, pp. 127-140.<BR> <BR>Wisner B., Blaikie P., Cannon T. and Davis I., At Risk: Natural Hazards, People’s Vulnerability and Disasters, 2nd ed., Routledge, London (2004)<BR> <BR>All this work is highly relevant to and certainly needed for point (i) too and it has been applied to minorities, marginalisation, and indiginous eity by authors such as Jean-Christophe<BR>Gaillard <A href="http://jc.gaillard.monsite.orange.fr/">http://jc.gaillard.monsite.orange.fr</A> and Jessica Mercer (see (iv) below) amongst others.<BR> <BR>(iii) Disaster-related activities for minorities in urban areas.<BR> <BR>A fascinating project is the "Geography of Urban Social Vulnerability" <A href="http://geic.hq.unu.edu/env/project1.cfm?type=1&ID=28">http://geic.hq.unu.edu/env/project1.cfm?type=1&ID=28</A> and <A href="http://www.unu.edu/env/urban/social-vulnerability/index.htm">http://www.unu.edu/env/urban/social-vulnerability/index.htm</A> For the case studies that you
mention, Los Angeles "There are worse things than earthquakes" might be apposite.<BR> <BR>(iv) Disaster-related activities and indigenous knowledge.<BR> <BR>Aside from your own contributions on this topic, go to <A href="http://www.riskred.org/favourites.html">http://www.riskred.org/favourites.html</A> and click on "Indigenous<BR>knowledge" for some links.<BR> <BR>(v) For specific publications addressing "racial/ethnic demographics and disaster preparedness" in urban settings see <A href="http://www.docuticker.com/?p=21705">http://www.docuticker.com/?p=21705</A> /<BR><A href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/6651771/Disaster-Preparedness-in-Urban-Immigrant-Communities">http://www.scribd.com/doc/6651771/Disaster-Preparedness-in-Urban-Immigrant-Communities</A> for southern California (however, I have not read this document, so I cannot judge it or advocate that it is appropriate) and also <A href="http://books.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=5782">http://books.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=5782</A> (e.g. pp. 122-125) for the USA.<BR> <BR>For all the above, aside from the Katrina literature that you mention along with the tsunami literature that you know already, the Gender and Disaster Network <A href="http://www.gdnonline.org/">http://www.gdnonline.org</A> along with Radix itself <A href="http://www.radixonline.org/">http://www.radixonline.org</A> will have other relevant resources. I hope that some of this material covers what you are seeking. With best wishes,<BR> <BR>Ilan<BR> <BR>_________________________________________________________________<BR>The new Windows Live Messenger. You don’t want to miss this.<BR><A href="http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowslive/products/messenger.aspx">http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowslive/products/messenger.aspx</A><BR> <BR></PRE><br /><hr />Akshay Kumar takes on the two reigning Bollywood Khans. Catch the action on MSN Entertainment! <a href='http://entertainment.in.msn.com' target='_new'>Check it out!</a></body>
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