More dimensions to preparedness: towards comprehensive understandings of household preparedness and its correlations with perceived preparedness. In Ljungby, Sweden.
(2023) VBRM15 20231Division of Risk Management and Societal Safety
- Abstract
- In Sweden, household preparedness is central to crisis management, but local, comprehensive data on it is largely lacking. Additionally, in academia, there is uncertainty around the correlations between actual (AHP) and perceived household preparedness (PHP). This study aims to address both these issues through the exploration of a more comprehensive framework to assess household preparedness. The proposed framework acknowledges five dimensions of AHP; Physical, Social, Financial, Natural, and Human, adapted from the Sustainable Livelihoods Framework. The framework guided the selection of relevant preparedness resources, of which the attainment was then surveyed in Ljungby municipality. The survey also assessed PHP to enable an analysis of... (More)
- In Sweden, household preparedness is central to crisis management, but local, comprehensive data on it is largely lacking. Additionally, in academia, there is uncertainty around the correlations between actual (AHP) and perceived household preparedness (PHP). This study aims to address both these issues through the exploration of a more comprehensive framework to assess household preparedness. The proposed framework acknowledges five dimensions of AHP; Physical, Social, Financial, Natural, and Human, adapted from the Sustainable Livelihoods Framework. The framework guided the selection of relevant preparedness resources, of which the attainment was then surveyed in Ljungby municipality. The survey also assessed PHP to enable an analysis of correlations between AHP and PHP. Results indicated that resource attainment was ‘neither good nor bad’ in Ljungby, with the highest attainment in the Physical dimension and the lowest attainment in the Human dimension. Despite finding that the level of PHP, categorized as ‘quite good’, was higher than AHP, all AHP dimensions and Total AHP had significant positive correlations with PHP. To gain a deeper understanding of the resources and dimensions, participatory appraisal group discussions were used. These highlighted resource substitution between and within dimensions as a mechanism enabling households to compensate for resources they were lacking. This was found to be a strength of the framework, as it enabled a more comprehensive understanding of AHP as an indicator for resilience, and may be an explanation for found discrepancies between PHP and AHP. (Less)
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- author
- Dijkers, Dide LU and Sellick, Tanja LU
- supervisor
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- Maja Svenbro LU
- organization
- course
- VBRM15 20231
- year
- 2023
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- Household preparedness, Crisis management, Resilience, Sustainable Livelihoods Framework, Perceived preparedness, Survey research, Participatory appraisal, Krisberedskap, Hemberedskap.
- language
- English
- id
- 9133465
- date added to LUP
- 2023-08-07 13:23:34
- date last changed
- 2023-08-07 13:23:34
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abstract = {{In Sweden, household preparedness is central to crisis management, but local, comprehensive data on it is largely lacking. Additionally, in academia, there is uncertainty around the correlations between actual (AHP) and perceived household preparedness (PHP). This study aims to address both these issues through the exploration of a more comprehensive framework to assess household preparedness. The proposed framework acknowledges five dimensions of AHP; Physical, Social, Financial, Natural, and Human, adapted from the Sustainable Livelihoods Framework. The framework guided the selection of relevant preparedness resources, of which the attainment was then surveyed in Ljungby municipality. The survey also assessed PHP to enable an analysis of correlations between AHP and PHP. Results indicated that resource attainment was ‘neither good nor bad’ in Ljungby, with the highest attainment in the Physical dimension and the lowest attainment in the Human dimension. Despite finding that the level of PHP, categorized as ‘quite good’, was higher than AHP, all AHP dimensions and Total AHP had significant positive correlations with PHP. To gain a deeper understanding of the resources and dimensions, participatory appraisal group discussions were used. These highlighted resource substitution between and within dimensions as a mechanism enabling households to compensate for resources they were lacking. This was found to be a strength of the framework, as it enabled a more comprehensive understanding of AHP as an indicator for resilience, and may be an explanation for found discrepancies between PHP and AHP.}},
author = {{Dijkers, Dide and Sellick, Tanja}},
language = {{eng}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{More dimensions to preparedness: towards comprehensive understandings of household preparedness and its correlations with perceived preparedness. In Ljungby, Sweden.}},
year = {{2023}},
}