Cultures & Disasters III: Towards New Understandings of Culture and Justice in the Context of Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) Interdisciplinary Conference, Institute of Geography Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg 28.06. – 29.06.2018 Convenors: Fred Krüger & Alexandra Titz (FAU Erlangen) with Greg Bankoff (University of Hull), Terry Cannon (IDS, University of Sussex), Lisa Schipper (ECI, University of Oxford) There is still a fundamental disjuncture between an acknowledgement of rights-based issues (as a major cultural aspect) and disaster proneness and prevention. The conference addresses four dimensions of cultures and disasters in the context of justice and social inclusion. Read more here:

The IFRC World Disasters Report 2014 takes on a challenging theme that looks at different aspects of how culture affects disaster risk reduction (DRR) and how disasters and risk influence culture. Download full report from IFRC homepage (PDF)

Edited by Fred Krüger, Greg Bankoff, Terry Cannon, Benedikt Orlowski, E. Lisa F. Schipper 2015 – Routledge About the book: Why did the people of the Zambesi Delta affected by severe flooding return early to their homes or even choose to not evacuate? How is the forced resettlement of small-scale farmers living along the foothills of an active volcano on the Philippines impacting on their day-to-day livelihood routines? Making sense of such questions and observations is only possible by understanding how the decision-making of societies at risk is embedded in culture, and how intervention measures acknowledge, or neglect, cultural settings. The social construction of risk is being given increasing priority…