Patrizia Isabelle Duda

Tel Aviv University | TAU · Sackler Faculty of Medicine

The Arctic is frequently framed as a region of disaster and conflict, as well as of opportunity and cooperation. Disaster diplomacy is one approach for examining how dealing with disasters might or might not affect conflict and cooperation, yet little work on Arctic disaster diplomacy has been completed, especially regarding specific bilateral rela...

Scholars and practitioners are increasingly questioning formal disaster governance (FDG) approaches as being too rigid, slow, and command-and-control driven. Too often, local realities and non-formal influences are sidelined or ignored to the extent that disaster governance can be harmed through the efforts to impose formal and/or political structu...

This paper analyses science diplomacy efforts to reduce disaster risks and proposes establishing national knowledge exchange centers (KECs) to help individual states adhere to their Sendai Framework goals. KECs are considered to be interconnected globally and work together to promote resilience efforts by facilitating sharing of information and str...

Any future outer space exploration and exploitation should more fully consider disaster and health risks as part of aiming for sustainability. The advent of the so‐called “New Space” race, age, or era characterised by democratisation, commercialization, militarisation, and overlapping outer space activities such as tourism presents challenges for d...

This paper develops a baseline and definition for informal disaster diplomacy in order to fill in an identified gap in the existing research. The process adopted is a review of the concept of informality, the application of informality to diplomacy, and the application of informality to disasters and disaster science. The two applications of inform...

Svalbard’s geographical positioning, environmental characteristics and multinational population make it conducive for considering informality and multinational cooperation in disaster risk reduction and response. Most research examining disaster risks and disasters for Svalbard has focused on Norwegian efforts in and for the main settlement of Long...

Scholars and practitioners are increasingly questioning formal disaster governance (FDG) approaches as being too rigid, slow, and command-and-control driven. Too often, local realities and informal influences are sidelined or ignored to the extent that disaster governance can be harmed through endeavours to impose formal and/or political structures...

Disaster risks and disasters are frequent around the Arctic. Hazards range from the usual sudden-onset suspects—such as earthquakes, avalanches, landslides, floods, and meteorites - to long(er)-term or less familiar changes such as climate change impacts, including sea level rise or microbes unleashed by melting permafrost. Simultaneously, the Arct...

Extraterritoriality and disasters are inherently connected. The particular circumstances created by disasters can lead to special extra-territorial circumstances by effectively creating states of exception within ‘normal’ territories. These can be based on the suspension, overthrow or obliteration of the pre-existing juridical, economic and/or soci...

With the Arctic’s growing prominence in the international landscape, a vague concept of Arcticness is emerging that is referred to, directly and indirectly, not only by various Arctic and non-Arctic political and economic actors but also by elites and non-elites alike. This essay sheds some initial light on this largely unexplored concept and inves...

Study/Objective To research the dynamics, advantages, and flaws of non-governmental, non-professional humanitarian aid through the perspective of the European refugee crisis. Background It is impossible to disregard the widespread phenomenon of young people leaving their lives behind for a significant period of time with the purpose of aiding refu...

Study/Objective To examine community-based Disaster Risk Reduction and Response (DRRR) approaches to wicked problems (Rittel and Webber 1973) and cascading disasters (Little 2012; Pescaroli 2015) in the Arctic; and to understand how these approaches do or do not change in correlation with the degree/type of the wicked problem and related circumstan...

Study/Objective To analyze the role of non-medical disaster response teams in cascading disasters, and their fit within wider Disaster Risk Reduction and Response (DRR&R) efforts. Background The field of disaster studies has recently seen a focus on so-called “cascading disasters.” What is meant is disasters with cascading effects across functiona...