TY - JOUR
T1 - Implicit and explicit knowledge in flood evacuations with a case study of Takamatsu, Japan
AU - NAKANISHI, Hitomi
AU - Black, John
N1 - Funding Information:
The research was funded by a grant from the University of Canberra (Research funding for collaborative project development and dissemination, Faculty of Arts and Design) and from Urban Research and Planning International under its Social Enterprise Organisation. The Committee for Ethics in Human Research of University of Canberra, Australia, approved this research (Project number 16-173 ). The authors thank: anonymous participants to the interview, Dr Patricia Gillard, Director of Coppice, Newcastle, New South Wales, who introduced us to the literature on Communities of Practice; Professor Yoshihiro Suenaga, Kagawa University; and Ms Heuilshi Chang, Oxford University, for sharing her fieldwork research findings on Japanese towns. We would also like to thank two anonymous reviewers who provided useful comments that has improved this paper.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2018/6
Y1 - 2018/6
N2 - Preparedness of communities to natural disasters is a key to mitigating more immediate impacts, whilst improving social resilience for longer-term recovery. The neighbourhood-level implicit knowledge and its association with residents’ awareness, preparedness and reaction to disasters remain imperfectly understood in the literature. A multi-disciplinary research perspective is taken in this research to enhance the understanding of the role of implicit knowledge in disaster management. The methodology is based on a literature review and descriptive analysis of knowledge management, communities of practice, explicit and implicit knowledge and evacuation behaviour. A qualitative interview on implicit knowledge was designed and administered to selected community members in the Japanese city of Takamatsu where typhoons are common and coastal flooding prevalent, as demonstrated by our historical analysis from the 17th century onwards. After reviewing the current City Disaster Management Plans, we argue that both explicit and implicit information is needed to formulate more effective, local-area evacuation plans and that the land-use planning profession in Japan has an important role in disaster mitigation. Practical implications and future research directions are identified in concluding the paper.
AB - Preparedness of communities to natural disasters is a key to mitigating more immediate impacts, whilst improving social resilience for longer-term recovery. The neighbourhood-level implicit knowledge and its association with residents’ awareness, preparedness and reaction to disasters remain imperfectly understood in the literature. A multi-disciplinary research perspective is taken in this research to enhance the understanding of the role of implicit knowledge in disaster management. The methodology is based on a literature review and descriptive analysis of knowledge management, communities of practice, explicit and implicit knowledge and evacuation behaviour. A qualitative interview on implicit knowledge was designed and administered to selected community members in the Japanese city of Takamatsu where typhoons are common and coastal flooding prevalent, as demonstrated by our historical analysis from the 17th century onwards. After reviewing the current City Disaster Management Plans, we argue that both explicit and implicit information is needed to formulate more effective, local-area evacuation plans and that the land-use planning profession in Japan has an important role in disaster mitigation. Practical implications and future research directions are identified in concluding the paper.
KW - Communities of Practice
KW - Disaster management planning
KW - Japan
KW - Knowledge management
KW - Qualitative interviews
KW - Typhoons and flooding
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U2 - 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2018.02.008
DO - 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2018.02.008
M3 - Article
SN - 2212-4209
VL - 28
SP - 788
EP - 797
JO - International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
JF - International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
ER -