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The integration of disaster risk management and disaster risk reduction principles in municipal development planning: A comparative case study
Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2023.
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| spelling | oai:scholar.sun.ac.za:10019.1/128719 The integration of disaster risk management and disaster risk reduction principles in municipal development planning: A comparative case study McConville, Emily Jane Zweig, Patricia Jane Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Dept of Geography and Environmental Studies. Hazard mitigation City planning BRAC (Organization). Integrated Development Programme Local government UCTD Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2023. ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The link between disasters and human development needs to be acknowledged, especially at the local level where unwise development planning often serves both to aggravate existing risks and engender new ones. The potential impacts of disasters have far-reaching consequences; presenting a threat both to people’s lives and their livelihoods, while often also undermining economic and social development of whole societies. Addressing prevailing risks and managing them determines their consequences and whether hazard events culminate in disasters. It is now widely acknowledged that to reduce risk effectively it is important to integrate disaster risk reduction and disaster risk management principles into integrated development planning. This study assesses the degree to which this is currently being achieved in the context of the Western Cape province, and to what extent disaster risk management capacity has been developed to drive such an approach. Exploring the extent of this integration within three local municipalities in this region of South Africa, the study reveals the weaknesses and constraints to achieving this integration, while also noting the successes achieved thus far in each case study area. Involving a range of predominantly qualitative methods, the study began with a review of key bodies of literature pertinent to the study to inform the researcher’s understanding of the topic. This was followed by a comprehensive review of the Integrated Development Plans of the three case study municipalities, covering two full planning cycles. In-depth virtual interviews with key role-players in each of the municipalities were also conducted to ascertain their opinions about the integration of disaster risk reduction and disaster management principles.The extent to which a disaster risk reduction approach to development is integrated into process and planning was found to be influenced by a variety of factors. Several obstacles to the functioning and performance of local municipalities were identified, which challenges the adoption of a disaster risk reduction approach and the successful implementation of a disaster management function. These obstacles included a lack of funding and capacity shortfalls, as well as a noted dependence on higher levels of government. Despite these challenges, the study also revealed that many risk-reducing practices were described in the municipal Integrated Development Plans reviewed; although these practices were not always perceived as ‘risk reduction measures’, many were already being implemented in the local municipalities. The identified gap between theory and implementation should be bridged so that disaster risk reduction is approached more holistically and purposefully, with the aim of sustained development. The study concludes by suggesting how such an approach could be integrated more effectively into municipal development planning, along with some recommendations as to how this might be achieved. AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die verband tussen rampe en menslike ontwikkeling moet erken word, veral op plaaslike vlak, waar onwys ontwikkelingsbeplanning dikwels veroorsaak dat bestaande risiko’s vererger en dat nuwes ontstaan. Die moontlik impak van rampe het verreikende gevolge wat mense se lewe sowel as hulle lewensbestaan bedreig en dikwels ook die ekonomiese en sosiale ontwikkeling van volledige samelewings ondermyn. Deur bestaande risiko’s te ondersoek en te bestuur kan bepaal word watter gevolge dit sal hê, en of gevaarlike gebeurtenisse in rampe sal ontaard. Daar word nou algemeen erken dat doeltreffende risikovermindering verg dat ramprisikovermindering en ramprisikobestuursbeginsels in geïntegreerde ontwikkelingsbeplanning saamgevoeg word. Hierdie navorsing ondersoek die mate waarin dít huidig in die konteks van die Wes-Kaap provinsie bereik word, en in watter mate ramprisikobestuurskapasiteit ontwikkel is om stukrag aan so ’n benadering te verleen. Die ondersoek na die omvang van sodanige integrasie in drie plaaslike munisipaliteite in hierdie Suid-Afrikaanse streek het die swakhede en beperkings aan die lig gebring wat integrasie kniehalter. Dit het ook die suksesse uitgelig wat tot dusver behaal is in elke munisipale gebied wat deel van die ondersoek uitgemaak het. Die navorsing begin met ’n literatuuroorsig volgens ’n verskeidenheid hoofsaaklik kwalitatiewe metodes van sleutelwerke wat vir die ondersoek tersaaklik is ten einde die navorser se begrip van die onderwerp te oriënteer. Daarop volg ’n omvattende oorsig van die geïntegreerde ontwikkelingsplanne vir twee volledige beplanningsiklusse van die drie munisipaliteite wat bestudeer is. Diepgaande virtuele onderhoude is met sleutelrolspelers in elk van die drie munisipaliteite gevoer om te bepaal wat hulle mening oor die integrasie van ramprisikovermindering en rampbestuursbeginsels is. Daar is bevind dat die mate waarin ’n ontwikkelingsbenadering van ramprisikovermindering by prosesse en beplanning geïntegreer is, deur ’n verskeidenheid faktore beïnvloed word. Verskeie struikelblokke vir die funksionering en werkverrigting van plaaslike munisipaliteite is uitgewys wat dit moeilik maak om ’n benadering van ramprisikovermindering te volg en ’n rampbestuursfunksie geslaagd deur te voer. Hierdie struikelblokke is onder meer gebrek aan befondsing en tekort aan kapasiteit, sowel as afhanklikheid van regering op hoër vlak. Ondanks hierdie uitdagings het die navorsing ook getoon dat baie risikoverminderingspraktyke omskryf word in die geïntegreerde ontwikkelingsplanne van die munisipaliteite wat ondersoek is. Hoewel hierdie praktyke nie altyd as ‘risikoverminderingsmaatreëls’ uitgeken word nie, het die plaaslike munisipaliteite baie daarvan alreeds in werking gestel. Die gaping wat tussen die teorie en inwerkingstelling uitgewys is, moet oorbrug word sodat ramprisikovermindering meer holisties en doelmatig benader word, met die oog op volgehoue ontwikkeling. Die ondersoek sluit af met ’n voorstel oor hoe so ’n benadering doeltreffender munisipale ontwikkelingsbeplanning geïntegreer kan word, asook aanbevelings oor hoe dit bereik kan word. Masters 2023-02-14T13:15:01Z 2023-11-16T09:35:04Z 2023-02-14T13:15:01Z 2023-11-16T09:35:04Z 2023-03 Thesis https://scholar.sun.ac.za/handle/10019.1/128719 en Stellenbosch University ix, 89 pages application/pdf Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University |
| spellingShingle | Hazard mitigation City planning BRAC (Organization). Integrated Development Programme Local government UCTD McConville, Emily Jane The integration of disaster risk management and disaster risk reduction principles in municipal development planning: A comparative case study |
| title | The integration of disaster risk management and disaster risk reduction principles in municipal development planning: A comparative case study |
| title_full | The integration of disaster risk management and disaster risk reduction principles in municipal development planning: A comparative case study |
| title_fullStr | The integration of disaster risk management and disaster risk reduction principles in municipal development planning: A comparative case study |
| title_full_unstemmed | The integration of disaster risk management and disaster risk reduction principles in municipal development planning: A comparative case study |
| title_short | The integration of disaster risk management and disaster risk reduction principles in municipal development planning: A comparative case study |
| title_sort | integration of disaster risk management and disaster risk reduction principles in municipal development planning a comparative case study |
| topic | Hazard mitigation City planning BRAC (Organization). Integrated Development Programme Local government UCTD |
| url | https://scholar.sun.ac.za/handle/10019.1/128719 |
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