Sub-theme
3. Building Resilience for Disaster Prevention and Mitigation
Topic
3-1. Prevention and mitigation of extreme weather induced water-related disasters
Body
With the transformation of the paradigm from loss-based to risk-based in disaster risk governance, more focus has been placed on the collaboration between the government and the public to promote the resilience of the whole society. Numerous scholars initiated dialogues across disciplines to engage wider stakeholders in resisting disasters exacerbated by climate change, drawing inspiration from sociology and psychology, organization science, political science, management, etcetera. However, there is a lack of a precise clarification of the cross-level approach bridging citizens onto the political agenda of climate hazards, neither the study on the role of key brokers connecting various interest groups and policy actors nor the effect of learning on shaping political decision-making and policy change. As such, this paper aims to address this knowledge gap through the lens of social learning, revealing the trajectories and facilitators of social interaction and knowledge transformation across multilevel governments concerning comprehensive climate risk management. In this view, the review proposes a conceptual framework of multilevel learning on disasters from the following aspects, knowledge-based public participation at the local level, evidence-based policy change at the upper level, and the linkage between these two phases. Based on the refined conceptual model, the research project will further develop a comparative case study in China and the Netherlands to reveal their similarities and differences in multilevel disaster risk governance and draw lessons for more vulnerable countries and regions worldwide. The narrative literature review will be conducted based on 100 pieces of literature drawn from Web of Science, Scopus, and scoINDEX, filtered by keywords of disaster risk reduction, crisis risk management, social learning, climate adaptation governance, multilevel governance, collaborative governance, public participation and communication, community resilience, policy learning, and policy change. Scholars may adopt the review as a perspective to incorporate the public, organizations, and government into the framework among various layers of government through promoting consensus and joint efforts on disaster issues.