Date, time	21 Feb, 13:15 - 15:00
Location	203 ALC Light
Teacher	Karen Oliveira Da Costa
Preparation	Read: Lewis, & Kelman, I. (2012). The Good, The Bad and The Ugly: Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) Versus Disaster Risk Creation (DRC). PLoS Currents, 4, e4f8d4eaec6af8–e4f8d4eaec6af8. https://doi.org/10.1371/4f8d4eaec6af8 Bradshaw, S., Linneker, B., and Overton, L. (2022). Creating disaster risk and constructing gendered vulnerability. In Bankoff, G., and Hilhorst, D. (eds.). Why Vulnerability Still Matters: The Politics of Disaster Risk Creation (pp. 51–82). Routledge Studies in Hazards, Disaster Risk and Climate Change. Milton: Taylor and Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003219453-5

In this seminar we will work with different scenarios and try to analyse them through the concepts and themes that were covered in the course, with a particular focus on human rights issues, together with disaster risk (reduction and creation). Further material and explanation will be provided in class.

Material for the activity:

Instructions Seminar on disaster case studies 20240221.docx

Seminar outline-FINAL.pdf

Background Drought Somdia country.docx

Background Flood Nalut country.docx

Outcome part 1 DRC - disaster risk creation:

Group 1 - part 1 - DRC.jpg

Group 2 - part 1 - DRC.jpg

Outcome part 2 DRR - disaster risk reduction:

Group 1 - part 2 - DRR.jpg

Group 2 - part 1 - DRR.jpg

For those that missed the seminar:

choose one of the two case studies

and do the activity individually (see documents with

instructions and case study early on in this page).

Email your paper (between 500-1000 words

excluding references) to karen.da.costa@gu.se .