"How Do We Actually Do Convergence" for Disaster Resilience?Cases from Australia and the United States

• 作者: Shefali Juneja Lakhina Elaina J.Sutley Jay Wilson
• 来源期刊: 国际灾害风险科学学报（英文版）
• 年，卷（期）: 2021,（3）
• 所属期刊栏目: ARTICLES
• 页码范围: 299-311
• 页数: 13页
• 语种: 英文

摘要

In recent years there has been an increasing emphasis on achieving convergence in disaster research,policy,and programs to reduce disaster losses and enhance social well-being.However,there remain considerable gaps in understanding "how do we actually do conver-gence?" In this article,we present three case studies from across geographies—New South Wales in Australia,and North Carolina and Oregon in the United States;and sec-tors of work community,environmental,and urban resi-lience,to critically examine what convergence entails and how it can enable diverse disciplines,people,and institu-tions to reduce vulnerability to systemic risks in the twenty-first century.We identify key successes,challenges,and barriers to convergence.We build on current discus-sions around the need for convergence research to be problem-focused and solutions-based,by also considering the need to approach convergence as ethic,method,and outcome.We reflect on how convergence can be approa-ched as an ethic that motivates a higher order alignment on"why" we come together;as a method that foregrounds"how" we come together in inclusive ways;and as an outcome that highlights "what" must be done to success-fully translate research findings into the policy and public domains.