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| Title: | Disaster Risk Reduction in Southern Africa: Hot Rhetoric - Cold Reality |
| Author: | Holloway, Ailsa |
| Year: | 2003 |
| Periodical: | African Security Review |
| Volume: | 12 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Pages: | 29-38 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Southern Africa |
| Subjects: | humanitarian assistance famine disasters Development and Technology Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment international relations |
| External link: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10246029.2003.9627568 |
| Abstract: | In 2002 southern Africa witnessed two contradictory events. The first, the World Summit on Sustainable Development, optimistically aimed to map forward a path to global sustainability. The second, the launching of a series of international humanitarian assistance appeals, aimed more fundamentally at averting the devastating consequences of regional famine. That these events, one promising to ensure future collective security, and the other a desperate plea to avert current human hardship and widespread suffering, should occur concurrently in the same region, underlines the many contradictions in prevailing development policy and practice, especially as they apply to the management of disaster risk and particularly as these relate to southern Africa. This article reflects on the challenges of implementing disaster risk reduction in southern Africa, a region not historically regarded as 'disaster-prone', with specific reference to southern Africa's current humanitarian emergency. It begins by reflecting the present status of humanitarian need in famine-affected countries and possible explanations for the severity of the impact. This is followed by a discussion of the dilemmas and divisions that have shaped disaster mitigation efforts in southern Africa. In this context, specific attention is given to factors that have discouraged greater national ownership of disaster risk within southern Africa, along with the challenges of bridging historic divisions between disaster reduction and development practice. Ref., sum. [Journal abstract] |
