A post-COVID-19 research agenda for disaster prevention, response and research

Cordula Dittmer and Daniel F. Lorenz

Chapter 6 in A Research Agenda for COVID-19 and Society, 2022, pp 85-104 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic challenges disaster prevention, response, and research in many ways and demonstrates once again how closely linked they are. Although manifold plans, concepts, and frameworks for pandemic preparedness and response existed in civil protection and disaster management, they were hardly ever practiced and utilized, as can be seen in the current response. Additionally, the current pandemic, as a complex disaster of the 21st century, highlights pivotal conceptual gaps in the understanding of crises, disasters, and pandemics in general. The causes of this increase in complexity are numerous side effects of interacting societal processes at different levels and across scales. Hence, they have to be conceptualized beyond scenario-based disaster definitions. In our chapter, we argue that we entered a "Pandemocene" in which social, political, or economic processes are interpreted in light of the COVID-19 pandemic and raise questions about what future disaster research might look like against the backdrop of the current pandemic and in the face of complex disasters originating from new social risks and hazards. Moreover, we reflect upon how this revised research agenda could be translated into disaster prevention and response.

Keywords: Development Studies; Economics and Finance; Sociology and Social Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.elgaronline.com/view/edcoll/9781800885141/9781800885141.00012.xml (application/pdf)
Our link check indicates that this URL is bad, the error code is: 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:elg:eechap:20657_6

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.e-elgar.com

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Chapters from Edward Elgar Publishing
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Darrel McCalla ().