An Empirical Exploration of the Capabilities of People with Disabilities in Coping with Disasters

作     者：Khanh That Ton JC Gaillard Carole Adamson Caglar Akgungor Ha Thanh Ho Khanh That Ton;JC Gaillard;Carole Adamson;Caglar Akgungor;Ha Thanh Ho

作者机构：School of EnvironmentThe University of AucklandAuckland 1010New Zealand Unit for Environmental Sciences and ManagementNorth-West UniversityPotchefstroomSouth Africa School of Counselling.Human Services and Social WorkThe University of AucklandAuckland 1010New Zealand Resilience Advisors NetworkDublin 4 D04 ED73Ireland Centre for Climate Change Study in Central VietnamHue University of Agriculture and ForestryHue CityVietnam 

出 版 物：《International Journal of Disaster Risk Science》 (国际灾害风险科学学报（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2020年第11卷第5期

页      面：602-614页

核心收录：

学科分类：12[管理学] 0709[理学-地质学] 08[工学] 0303[法学-社会学] 0832[工学-食品科学与工程（可授工学、农学学位）] 1204[管理学-公共管理] 083002[工学-环境工程] 0830[工学-环境科学与工程（可授工学、理学、农学学位）] 1201[管理学-管理科学与工程(可授管理学、工学学位)] 0708[理学-地球物理学] 0837[工学-安全科学与工程] 0705[理学-地理学] 0706[理学-大气科学] 0813[工学-建筑学] 0704[理学-天文学] 0833[工学-城乡规划学] 

主　　题：Capability approach Disasters People with disabilities Vietnam Vulnerability 

摘      要：While the capability approach is increasingly being adopted for evaluating well-being and social justice in the field of human development,this approach in disaster research has remained *** research thus seeks to address the disaster risk that humans face through a lens of capabilities,with a focus on the lives of people with disabilities.A multi-case study approach was adopted and two rural communes in Vietnam were selected as study con *** were collected using focus group discussions and interviews that involved people with disabilities,parents/caregivers of people with intellectual/psychosocial disabilities,and representatives from related *** was found that people with disabilities are affected by disasters due to the lack of capabilities that they value in coping with disasters.A range of capabilities that people with disabilities value was revealed in the study sites,with many being valued not only in times of disasters but also in daily *** findings also highlight that,to actualize their valued capabilities,people with disabilities need access not only to resources but also to the factors that enable them to convert the resources to their valued *** most cases,the limitations to the achievement of capabilities are related to the external environment.