The knowledge, skills and resources that people can draw on and share to help deal with hazards and disasters - their capacities -must be central to any coherent strategy.

Could it be smarter to put efforts into building capacities rather than reducing vulnerabilities? 

Today we talk to Dr JC Gaillard in the first of 2 episodes on capacity/capacities. 

 

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Further information:

Anderson & Woodrow 1989 - Rising from the Ashes: Development Strategies in Times of Disaster https://www.amazon.com/Rising-Ashes-Development-Strategies-Disaster/dp/1555878008

Gaillard et al. 2018 - People’s capacities in facing hazards and disasters: an overview https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11069-018-3519-1

Gaillard 2010 - Vulnerability, capacity and resilience: perspectives for climate and development policy https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/jid.1675 

  

Our guest this week:

Follow Dr JC Gaillard on Twitter @jcgaillard_uoa 

His academic profile is hhttp://www.env.auckland.ac.nz/people/jc-gaillard

Personal Website https://jcgaillard.wordpress.com/

 

Music this week from "Impavid" by Charlie Ryan.