Children and Young People’s Participation in Disaster : Agency and Resilience / / edited by Maggie Mort, Israel Rodriguez-Giralt, Ana Delicado.

• TeilnehmendeR: Delicado, Ana,; Rodriguez-Giralt, Israel,; Mort, Maggie,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol, UK : : Policy Press,, 2020.; ©2020.
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (1 online resource.)

Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Disasters are an increasingly common and complex combination of environmental, social and cultural factors. Yet existing response frameworks and emergency plans tend to homogenise affected populations as 'victims', overlooking the distinctive experience, capacities and skills of children and young people. Drawing on participatory research with more than 550 children internationally, this book argues for a radical transformation in children's roles and voices in disasters. It shows practitioners, policy-makers and researchers how more child-centred disaster management, that recognises children's capacity to enhance disaster resilience, actually benefits at-risk communities as a whole.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Contents -- List of figures and tables -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introducing CUIDAR: A child-centred approach to disasters -- Children, participation and disasters in Europe: A poor record -- Dialogues with Children, Mutual Learning Exercises and National Policy Debates -- Rights, information, needs and active involvement in disaster risk management -- Building a framework for child-centred disaster risk management in Europe -- Participatory tools for disaster risk management with children and young people -- Concluding remarks: Reimagining children's place in disaster risk management -- References -- Index