Meriläinen, Eija;
(2025)
Nature–society relations in disaster governance frameworks.
Disasters
, 49
(2)
, Article e12678. 10.1111/disa.12678.
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Abstract
This paper studies how the relations between nature and society are constructed in disaster governance frameworks. Dominant disaster governance frameworks present nature and society as separate realms, and the organisation of society is increasingly seen as the key cause of hazards and disasters. Disaster impacts are similarly framed around adverse societal consequences, while other-than-human nature is merely the background across which disasters unfold, as property lost, or a means of disaster governance. Although the centrality of human impacts is troubled when biodiversity or a disaster flagship species is threatened, neither situation challenges the nature–society dualism embedded in dominant disaster governance frameworks. The attention and resources of disaster governance target the societal side of nature–society dualism. This study finds, though, that in peripheries characterised by remoteness from centres of power, a sparse human population, and large spaces of other-than-human nature, the vulnerabilities facing humans and other-than-human nature risk being ungoverned.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Nature–society relations in disaster governance frameworks |
| Location: | England |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1111/disa.12678 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1111/disa.12678 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © 2025 The Author(s). Disasters published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of ODI Global. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes. |
| Keywords: | Disaster governance, Finland, nature, nature–society dualism, Nordic, other-than-human nature, periphery, relations |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10215713 |
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