1. Linking Disasters and Development: the next 10 years
Dealing with Disasters 2010
Andrew Collins
Disaster and Development Centre (DDC)
Northumbria University

2. Conference Themes Rights based approaches to disaster reduction
Beyond resilience
Health security and wellbeing
Urban disaster planning and infrastructure
Disaster communication and associated technology
Community to community development
Out here beyond ...

3. Key Context ‘Beyond?’ New knowledge
People centred learning and engagement processes
Experiences, implications and applications
Out here beyond ...

4. Existing paradigms? Sustainable Development
Disaster Risk Reduction (hazards, vulnerability capacity and ...)
Resilience
Adaptation
Rights
Health and Wellbeing

5. Knowledge and Technology
Underlying influences on (successful) disaster and development initiatives
Individual Behaviour
Political
Will
Knowledge and Technology
Education
Education
Education
Source: Collins, A.E. (2009) Disaster and Development, Routledge p.151

6. i.e. Relationship between disaster impact, uncertainty and risk reduction engagement – which route?
Unstable Disaster Threat
Uncertainty reduced, commitment to change neglected
Potential Impact
Idealised risk reduction
Certainty accompanied by moral and political change
Uncertainty accepted, vulnerability reduced
Resilience established, uncertainty managed
More stable threat
Uncertainty
Source: Collins, A.E. (2009) Disaster and Development, Routledge p.221