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Disaster prevention and the mitigation of climate change effects
call for global action. Joint efforts are required among countries,
economic sectors, and public and private stakeholders. Not
surprisingly, international organizations, such as the United
Nations agencies, propose policy frameworks aimed at worldwide
influence. The 2015-2030 Sendai Framework seeks to create consensus
about the need to act for disaster risk reduction and climate
adaptation. A key goal is to promote investments in risk reduction
and resilience. But how useful is this policy framework? What does
it say, and what does it overlook? How can it be implemented among
vulnerable communities, in historic sites, and in other sensitive
locations affected by disasters? In this book, prominent scholars
and practitioners examine the successes and failures of the Sendai
Framework. Their case studies show that, despite its good
intentions, the Framework achieves very little. The main reason is
that, while avoiding a political engagement, it fails to deal with
disasters' root causes and guide the difficult path of effective
implementation. The authors bring a fresh look to international
policy and design practices, highlighting cross-disciplinary
research avenues, and ideas and methods for low-income communities,
cities and heritage sites in Portugal, Haiti, the United States,
the Philippines, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, Nigeria, among other
countries.Global action requires collaboration between
heterogeneous stakeholders, but also the recognition of
inequalities, power imbalances, and social and environmental
injustices.
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