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1. How and why deliberation and
participation enhance coping
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mechanisms
Julia Ornaf, Institute of Geography
and Durability, Switzerland

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Contents
• Few assumptions (1-2)
• A Standardised and adaptable procedure (3-4)
• Outcomes of this procedure (5)
• Active subsidiarity: an Institutional model linking the top-down
and bottom-up models (6)
• Added value for the Post 2015 Framework (7-8)
• Bibliography (9)

3. 1.How and why deliberation and participation
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enhance coping mechanisms
• Participation and deliberation of multiple stakeholders can be
used to improve
– Vulnerability assessments
(see Deliberative Vulnerability Scoping Diagram, Coletti, A. et alii. 2012)
– Understanding of local threats
(see Latour, B. 2004)
– Risk and crisis communication
(see Steelman, A. and McCaffrey, S. 2012)

4. 2.Deliberation and participation enhance coping
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mechanisms
• It fills the gap between the bottom-up and top-down
approaches. It complements them thanks to a holistic
approach
• It allows to sharpen and monitor evolutions of threats and
communities awareness if used regularly
• It increases compliance and resilience because it links
concepts to values, guidelines to local uses
• It increases the legitimacy and the validity of the taken
decisions, because it links together politics and sciences

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3.What is needed ?
• A standardised procedure which shall ensure
– The regular use of the process
– The legitimacy of the process, giving clear and mandatory conditions
to be fulfilled
– The release of temporary statements or guidelines
– The publicity of those statements or guidelines
Procedure should be “ISO”, giving clear steps to institutionalised its settlement
• The procedure shall also be flexible to adjust to the local
contexts and to the specificities of uncertainty and complexity

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Convening of
stakeholders
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4.
Moderating and
framing debates
5.
Freezing statements
Releasing official
status
6.
4. A standard procedure inspired by B. Latour (2004)
Discussing the
meanings
Discussing the
uses
1. Convening of
stakeholders
2. Moderating and
framing debates
3. Freezing
statements
Releasing official
status
Vulnerability assessments - Understanding of local threats - Risk and crisis communication

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5. Outcomes
• Vulnerability assessment
Links sciences and local cultures
• Understanding of local threats
Comprehends points of view, sharpens understandings
extending definitions
Thanks to redundancy, it updates integrated knowledges
• Risk and crisis communication
Redundancy links values and arguments, creates proper
norms, increasing compliance

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6. Active subsidiarity (P. Calame)
• Links the global level to the local levels, bypassing mediation
through central administrations (Nation States)
• On similar issues (similar threats, similar vulnerabilities, etc)
• Sets obligations of results and not obligations of means
• If problems are similar, answers are specific

9. 7. Added value for the Post 2015 Framework for DRR
• Threats and ruptures create new political territories that need to be
governed with original governmental approaches, during the
needed time
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• Those governmental
approaches (active
subsidiarity, use of
participatory deliberation)
overlap with traditional
authorities and do not
replace them
• How to coordinate them ?

10. 8. Added value for the Post 2015 Framework for DRR
• Implementing innovative governmental structures
– Requires to support local populations with the development of specific
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risks cultures
– Nations sovereignties are so damaged by globalization that they need to
be partly replaced, especially on the topic of risks and hazards, by a
coordination between transnational actors
– In order to reach a globalized concern for security, allowing local
communities to develop their own answers and strategies
• From your perspective what are the main gaps, needs and further
steps to be addressed in the Post 2015 Framework for Disaster Risk
Reduction in
– Research: Increase transdisciplinary collaborations
– Education & Training: Increase direct communication with people
– Implementation & Practice: Increase direct communication with people
– Policy: Use Active subsidiarity where threats create new political
territories

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9. Bibliography
• Calame, P. Calame, Pierre (1996). Le prince de subsidiarité active. Working Paper,
Fondation Charles Léopold Mayer.
• Calame, P. (2002). Making the Principle of Active Subsidiarity the Foundation or
European Governance. Working Paper, Fondation Charles Léopold Mayer.
• Coletti, A., Howe, P. D.; Yarnal, B.; Wood, N.J. (2013). Support system for assessing local
vulnerability to weather and climate. Natural Hazards, 65(1), pp. 999-1008.
• Latour, B. (2004). Politics of Nature: How to Bring the Sciences into Democracy. Harvard
University Press : Cambridge.
• Ornaf, J. and Rambaud, A. (2012). Processual political methodology as a legitimate
response to pluralism and uncertainty issues, IDRC 2012, Proceeding of conference.
• Steelman, A. and McCaffrey, S. (2012)Best practices in risk and crisis communication:
implications for natural hazards management. Natural Hazard, 65, pp. 683-705.