Experiences and results from interdisciplinary collaboration: utilizing qualitative information to formulate disaster risk reduction measures for coastal regions

Martinez, Grit; Armaroli, Clara; Costas, Susana; Harley, Mitchell D.; Paolisso, Michael

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Experiences and results from interdisciplinary collaboration: utilizing qualitative information to formulate disaster risk reduction measures for coastal regions

2017-10Journal article

dc.contributor.author	Martinez, Grit
dc.contributor.author	Armaroli, Clara
dc.contributor.author	Costas, Susana
dc.contributor.author	Harley, Mitchell D.
dc.contributor.author	Paolisso, Michael
dc.date.accessioned	2018-01-12T11:47:05Z
dc.date.available	2019-10-01T00:30:09Z
dc.date.issued	2017-10
dc.description.abstract	This paper illustrates both the potential and challenges of interdisciplinary collaboration amongst researchers from the social sciences/humanities and the natural sciences/engineering in formulating disaster risk reduction measures for coastal regions. The authors aim to share their experiences of working across different scientific and engineering disciplines in the EU project RISC-KIT to co-produce disaster risk reduction measures suitable for specific regional and local contexts, in this case two coastal study areas in Europe (Porto Garibaldi, Italy and Rio Formosa, Portugal). An overview of the historic-cultural origins of scientific disciplines is first presented, explaining the historical fragmentation of scientific knowledge into natural and social sciences and its associated challenges for prior disaster risk studies – and how the current state of an interdisciplinary approach has emerged. This is followed by an analysis of interdisciplinary collaboration, drawing on the experience and data collected (both quantitative and qualitative) from the two case study areas. The article concludes with suggestions to further overcome the segregation of disciplines within disaster risk studies and projects. The authors found that qualitative data help to understand knowledge, values and behaviours of institutional and non-institutional stakeholders in formulating appropriate risk reduction measures to increase resilience in a local context – and that such data work “hand in hand” with quantitative information. Furthermore, the collection of qualitative data by researchers of the natural science and engineering disciplines has the potential to build bridges between disciplines and to stimulate further investigations, as in this case, to explain contradictions in human behaviour when managing risk.	pt_PT
dc.description.version	info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion	pt_PT
dc.identifier.doi	10.1016/j.coastaleng.2017.09.010	pt_PT
dc.identifier.issn	0378-3839
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/10309
dc.language.iso	eng	pt_PT
dc.peerreviewed	yes	pt_PT
dc.publisher	Elsevier	pt_PT
dc.relation	Resilience-Increasing Strategies for Coasts - toolKIT
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject	Interdisciplinarity	pt_PT
dc.subject	Social science and humanities	pt_PT
dc.subject	Transdisciplinarity	pt_PT
dc.subject	Natural science and engineering	pt_PT
dc.subject	Disaster risk reduction	pt_PT
dc.subject	Ria Formosa	pt_PT
dc.subject	Risk management	pt_PT
dc.subject	Coastal zones	pt_PT
dc.subject	Risk perception	pt_PT
dc.subject	EU floods directive	pt_PT
dc.subject	Culture	pt_PT
dc.subject	Values	pt_PT
dc.subject	Porto Garibaldi	pt_PT
dc.title	Experiences and results from interdisciplinary collaboration: utilizing qualitative information to formulate disaster risk reduction measures for coastal regions	pt_PT
dc.type	journal article
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oaire.awardTitle	Resilience-Increasing Strategies for Coasts - toolKIT
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oaire.citation.title	Coastal Engineering	pt_PT
oaire.fundingStream	FP7
person.familyName	Costas
person.givenName	Susana
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project.funder.identifier	http://doi.org/10.13039/501100008530
project.funder.name	European Commission
rcaap.rights	openAccess	pt_PT
rcaap.type	article	pt_PT
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