Towards a Revised Framework for Participatory Planning in the Context of Risk

Paola Rizzi and Anna Porębska
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Paola Rizzi: Department of Architecture, Design and Urban Planning, University of Sassari, 07100 Sassari, Italy
Anna Porębska: Faculty of Architecture, Cracow University of Technology, 31-155 Kraków, Poland

Sustainability, 2020, vol. 12, issue 14, 1-23

Abstract: Community participation is widely acknowledged to be crucial in both mitigation and reconstruction planning, as well as in community-based disaster risk reduction (CBDRR) and community-based disaster mitigation (CBDM) processes. However, despite decades of experience, an efficient framework that is acceptable for all actors and suitable for all different phases of the process—ranging from planning to post-disaster recovery—is lacking. The examples presented in this paper shed light on the different dynamics of participatory design processes and compare situations in which participatory design and community planning were introduced before, during, or after a disastrous or potentially disastrous event. Others emphasize the consequences of participation not being introduced at all. Analysis of these processes allows the authors to speculate on a revised, universal model for participatory planning in vulnerable territories and in the context of risk. By emphasizing intrinsic relations of different elements of the process, particularly the responsibility that different actors are prepared—or forced—to take, this article offers insight towards a framework for post-2020 participatory planning.

Keywords: participatory design; design for risk reduction (DRR); disaster mitigation (DM); risk awareness; resilience (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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