For this assignment, post at least 5 annotations in the text using the reading material attached which engage with the material. And 2 meaningful questions, all of which must be directly related to the prompt below (TOTAL OF 5 PROMPTS AND READINGS). Write in complete sentences. You are free to annotate more but there must be at least 5 annotations and 2 questions. Make sure you annotate the whole paper. Points will be deducted if all of your annotations are in just one section.
READING 1 PROMPT: Jacob (2019)argues that resilience is a pure public good and that hazards governance needs to be understood as a production system geared toward producing such public goods. Why does he define resilience in this way?
What does he mean by such public goods arising from a production technology?
And how do those production technologies vary across phases of the emergency management cycle – i.e. specific functional areas of activity?
READING 2 PROMPT: Renn and Klinke (2015)offer a discussion of different types of knowledge, or different ways of understanding, risk – including core challenges such as uncertainty and ambiguity in assessing risk.
How are those approaches or types of knowledge explained?
How do those approaches/types of knowledge affect processes of assessing risk?
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READING 3 PROMPT: Wamsler and Brink (2014)offer a very direct and applied illustration of how the idea of a pure public good (at least using the framing the Jacob paper offers), such as climate adaptation, is produced through programmatic actions.
While the national setting is outside the U.S. (in this case Sweden), what do specific adaptation practices look like at the local government level in Sweden?
Are those practices consistent across the country?
How do local efforts fit within a broader national framework for dealing with climate change?
READING 4 PROMPT: Thomalla et al. (2006)offer a pretty straightforward contribution to the course focus on hazards governance:
What do very broad terms such as “disaster risk reduction” (DRR) and “climate change adaptation” actually mean in practical terms?
And what are the similarities and dissimilarities between DRR and climate change adaptation characteristics and practices?
READING 5 PROMPT: Schwab (2019)provides a very useful exposition of how planning systems function as part of a government’s disaster risk reduction approach. He likewise places planning for hazards risk reduction in historic context.
What are the key points Schwab raises in describing the current state of the art for hazards planning?
What is the difference between structural and nonstructural mitigation actions?
How has climate change-related risk become integrated in local hazards planning practice?
