Fire risk communication in the urban informal sector: Evidence from traditional marketplaces in Accra, Ghana

被引:7
作者
Abunyewah, Matthew [1 ,2 ]
Okyere, Seth A. [3 ]
Frimpong, Louis K. [4 ]
Diko, Stephen K. [5 ]
Erdiaw-Kwasie, Michael O. [6 ]
Boateng, Victor [7 ]
机构
[1] Charles Darwin Univ, Coll Hlth & Human Sci, Australasian Ctr Resilience Implementat Sustainab, Darwin, NT 0810, Australia
[2] Univ Newcastle, Sch Architecture & Built Environm, Newcastle, NSW, Australia
[3] Univ Arizona, Coll Architecture Planning & Landscape Architectu, Tucson, AZ USA
[4] Univ Environm & Sustainable Dev, Dept Geog & Earth Sci, Somanya, Ghana
[5] Univ Memphis, Dept City & Reg Planning, Memphis, TN 38152 USA
[6] Charles Darwin Univ, Asia Pacific Coll Business & Law, Sustainable Enterprise Div, Darwin, NT, Australia
[7] Univ Ghana, Dept Geog & Resource Dev, Legon, Ghana
关键词
Accra; fire risks; risk communication; socio-cultural factors; urban market; NATURAL HAZARDS; DISASTER; PERCEPTIONS; REDUCTION; KNOWLEDGE; MAKOLA;
D O I
10.1002/rhc3.12259
中图分类号
C93 [管理学]; D035 [国家行政管理]; D523 [行政管理]; D63 [国家行政管理];
学科分类号
12 ; 1201 ; 1202 ; 120202 ; 1204 ; 120401 ;
摘要
Urban marketplace fires in Ghana are chronic, devasting in economic losses and disproportionately impacting informal sector workers. Yet, the scholarly works on urban disasters have focused on hydrometeorological and other man-made disasters to the neglect of marketplace fires, particularly the challenges in risk communication between emergency management agencies and urban marketplace workers. In seeking to extend the emerging but scant work on urban marketplace fires in Ghana, this paper analysed fire risk communication to understand how socio-cultural factors influence the perceptions and protective behavioral strategies of traders in two traditional urban marketplaces of Accra. In-depth interviews with both public agencies and traders showed that traders' social networks and interactions are important sources and channels for fire risk communication, albeit unharnessed by formal emergency management agencies. It also revealed how cultural elements such as religious beliefs about fire risks affect proactiveness in fire risk preparedness and response. To ensure effective risk communication about marketplace fires, this paper calls attention to and mainstreaming of socio-cultural aspects of everyday life in marketplaces into disaster risk planning and management.
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页码:297 / 320
页数:24
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