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Participatory and evidence-based recommendations for urban redevelopment following natural disasters
— older adults as policy advisers | | Author(s) | Michael Annear, Sally Keeling, Tim Wilkinson |
| Journal title | Australasian Journal on Ageing, vol 33, no 1, March 2014 |
| Publisher | Wiley Blackwell, March 2014 |
| Pages | pp 43-49 |
| Source | wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/ajag |
| Keywords | Disasters [natural] ; Earthquakes ; Urban renewal ; Policy ; Participation ; New Zealand. |
| Annotation | The present study aimed to develop community-generated recommendations to inform urban environmental remediation following earthquakes in Christchurch, New Zealand, and share these with local decision-makers during a participatory action research process. The study employed three focus group discussions to critique mixed-methods and multiphase results and develop evidence-based recommendations. Participants included 30 volunteers and eight knowledgeable advisers aged 65 years and older. Participant recommendations addressed the remediation of earthquake-affected suburbs, access to transportation, age-friendly design, safer communities, resilient support agencies and restoration of resources for social and cultural activities. These older collaborators identified salient barriers to active ageing and options for post-earthquake redevelopment that had not previously been considered in research or policy. Independently living older adults are well placed to work with researchers to develop recommendations to improve the urban environment following natural disasters as well as in times of relative stability. (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-150605257 A |
| Classmark | RG: RG5: RRJ: QAD: TMB: 7YN |
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