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Record Nr.

UNINA9910426057903321

Titolo

Children and Young People’s Participation in Disaster : Agency and Resilience / / edited by Maggie Mort, Israel Rodriguez-Giralt, Ana Delicado

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bristol, UK : , : Policy Press, , 2020

©2020

ISBN

1-4473-5443-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1 online resource.)

Soggetti

Resilience (Personality trait) in children

Emergency management - Citizen participation

Decision making in children

Environmental disasters - Prevention

Environmental disasters - Social aspects

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter -- Contents -- List of figures and tables -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introducing CUIDAR: A child-centred approach to disasters -- Children, participation and disasters in Europe: A poor record -- Dialogues with Children, Mutual Learning Exercises and National Policy Debates -- Rights, information, needs and active involvement in disaster risk management -- Building a framework for child-centred disaster risk management in Europe -- Participatory tools for disaster risk management with children and young people -- Concluding remarks: Reimagining children's place in disaster risk management -- References -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Disasters are an increasingly common and complex combination of environmental, social and cultural factors. Yet existing response frameworks and emergency plans tend to homogenise affected populations as 'victims', overlooking the distinctive experience, capacities and skills of children and young people. Drawing on participatory research with more than



550 children internationally, this book argues for a radical transformation in children's roles and voices in disasters. It shows practitioners, policy-makers and researchers how more child-centred disaster management, that recognises children's capacity to enhance disaster resilience, actually benefits at-risk communities as a whole.