Posts tagged Disaster management
When policy lessons don’t speak for themselves – a “traveller’s guide” for practitioners of policy learning
When policy lessons don’t speak for themselves – a “traveller’s guide” for practitioners of policy learning

Policy lessons don’t travel on their own - a lot goes into helping them from their place of origin to new homes (or stopping them from getting there). Drawing on research with disaster management personnel in Queensland, Dr Jenny van der Arend (@JennyvdA) and A/Prof Alastair Stark distil a ‘traveller’s guide’ of practical insights for policymakers who want to help lessons from place to place. The post is based on their new article in the Journal of European Public Policy and is free to read until October 2023.

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Policy and governance, Creating using evidencePower to PersuadePolicy making, Disaster management, implementation
Climate Change in South Asia and Lessons for the Philippines in Building Community Resilience
Climate Change in South Asia and Lessons for the Philippines in Building Community Resilience

Building on the post-disaster recovery narratives, today’s piece by Dr Sajal Roy and Oliver Tirtho Sarkar draws insights from the Munda Indigenous peoples' response to climate change in Bangladesh and documents their livelihood-rebuilding strategies to identify lessons which can be replicated in the Philippines in the context of other climate induced disasters like Cyclone Mocha.

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Power to Persuadeclimate change, Disaster management