Christine Eriksen


Last Name

Eriksen

First Name

Christine

ORCID

0000-0002-2906-9680

Organisational unit

03515 - Wenger, Andreas / Wenger, Andreas

Filters

2012 - 201972020 - 202543
Reset filters

Search Results

Publications 1 - 10 of 50
  • Book Review: Danielle Celermajer ‘Summertime: Reflections on a Vanishing Future’
    Item type: Book Review
    Eriksen, Christine (2022)
    Australian Journal of Emergency Management
    CSS' Christine Eriksen reviews Danielle Celermajer's book "Summertime: Reflections on a vanishing future", a thoughtful exploration of the climate crisis, for the Australian Journal of Emergency Management.
  • House and contents underinsurance: Insights from bushfire-prone Australia
    Item type: Journal Article
    Booth, Kate; Lucas, Chloe; Eriksen, Christine; et al. (2022)
    International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
    As the climate changes, the role of house and contents insurance in managing risks is receiving more attention. However, there is concern that significant levels of house and contents underinsurance are placing individuals and communities at undue risk. Based on data provided by a multi-modal project about experiences of insured and uninsured households in bushfire-prone Australia, Kate Booth, Chloe Lucas, CSS' Christine Eriksen, Eliza de Vet, Bruce Tranter, Shaun French, Travis Young, and Scott McKinnon identify underinsurance as a complex phenomenon that is variably co-constituted at different scales.
  • Europe’s Fiery Future: Rethinking Wildfire Policy
    Item type: Other Publication
    Eriksen, Christine (2020)
    CSS Policy Perspectives
    Climate change plays a crucial role in increasing the risk and extent of wildfires. While the US and Australia have been particularly affected this year, Europe will increasingly face similar challenges, argues Christine Eriksen in this CSS Policy Perspective. Exacerbated by problematic land management policies, wildfires are forcing emergency services, land managers and policymakers to adapt to a fiery future. How we manage the land and where we live matter. Local and indigenous environmental knowledge that understands the diverse, interconnecting aspects of a landscape are crucial to sustainable land stewardship. Knowing the difference between good and bad fire regimes is equally important.
  • From rigidity traps towards reparative disaster governance and management
    Item type: Journal Article
    Eriksen, Christine; Kirschner, Judith; Simon, Gregory L.; et al. (2025)
    International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
    Despite widespread critique, the established notion of sequential disaster management phases (mitigation, preparedness, response, recovery) continues to inform a standard set of policies and practices that lock people into rigid cycles of decision-making and action. In this paper, we refer to these as “rigidity traps.” Although expressed in different ways, rigidity traps result in the overarching effect of maintaining the broader conditions that shape disasters and they, in turn, proliferate the consequent impact. Awareness of rigidity traps, and the resulting processes and outcomes, is critical to avoid such traps. However, alternative disaster governance and management approaches are also needed in order to move on from the status quo. To this end, we build on work by scholars to deploy ‘the reparative’ as an analytical lens. Specifically, a reparative approach seeks to account for the wider historical and systemic conditions that organize and structure the ways disasters unfold, the consequences they bear, and their uneven effects across different people and places. We use this framing as a foundation to expand upon what a reparative approach might look like when applied to disaster governance and management. We do so by identifying a range of rigidity traps, which is followed by suggestions for alternative reparative approaches, including perspectives on how to institutionalise such approaches. While each example is grounded in either a particular place or type of hazard, the collection has been chosen due to their simultaneous relevance to a broader range of people, places and hazards.
  • Den Bevölkerungsschutz fit für den Klimawandel machen
    Item type: Book Chapter
    Eriksen, Christine (2022)
    Bulletin zur schweizerischen Sicherheitspolitik ~ Bulletin 2022 zur schweizerischen Sicherheitspolitik
    In diesem Teil des Bulletin 2022 zeigt Christine Eriksen auf, wie die jüngsten Arbeiten des Teams Risiko und Resilienz des CSS, insbesondere zwei Publikationen, dazu beigetragen haben, dass der Bundesrat 2021 die aktuelle Praxis der Waldbrandbekämpfung in der Schweiz überprüfen liess.
  • Untangling Insurance, Rebuilding, and Wellbeing in Bushfire Recovery
    Item type: Journal Article
    Eriksen, Christine; de Vet, Eliza (2021)
    Geographical Research
    Home and contents insurance is framed as key to Australia's national strategy for disaster resilience. This article by CSS’ Christine Eriksen and Eliza de Vet explores how insurance impacts upon households' capacities to rebuild and recover after disastrous bushfire. It shows that swift claims handling and payouts allowed participants to repair, rebuild, and refurnish their houses — essentials in restoring everyday routines and a sense of normalcy. Yet, the authors also highlight that insurance is a crucial tool for disaster resilience, greater levels of psychosocial support are needed to improve households' short‐ and longer‐term recovery.
  • Adapting Swiss Civil Protection to a Changing Climate
    Item type: Other Publication
    Eriksen, Christine; Hauri, Andrin; Kollmann, David Nicolai (2022)
    CSS Policy Perspectives
    The increasing frequency and scale of climate-exacerbated hazards require civil protection systems to adapt. Mitigation measures initiated following recent disasters in neighboring countries provide valuable lessons for Switzerland.
  • Dilemmas, Decision-making and Disasters: Emotions of Parenting, Safety and Rebuilding in Bushfire Recovery
    Item type: Journal Article
    de Vet, Eliza; Eriksen, Christine; McKinnon, Scott (2021)
    Area
    Increasing numbers of households are impacted by disasters due to population growth, increasing development in higher risk areas, and climate change. While emergency management in Australia aims to reduce quantifiable losses, lived disaster and recovery experiences are relatively mute, with implications for mitigation and post‐disaster support. This journal article by CSS Christine Eriksen draws on findings from a research project that set out to examine the role of insurance in household recovery after the 2013 Blue Mountains bushfires in New South Wales. More specifically, it explores the emotions involved in caring for children while surviving and recovering from a disaster.
  • Advancing disaster geographies: From marginalisation to inclusion of gender and sexual minorities
    Item type: Journal Article
    Haworth, Billy Tusker; McKinnon, Scott; Eriksen, Christine (2022)
    Geography Compass
    Despite growing awareness and research into experiences of gender and sexual minorities, their needs and capacities are often overlooked in crisis response and disaster risk reduction. Billy Tusker Haworth, Scott McKinnon and CSS' Christine Eriksen summarize extant knowledge and identify areas for growth in the field of disaster geographies.
  • L’interface entre sécurité et changement climatique
    Item type: Other Publication
    Eriksen, Christine; Hauri, Andrin; Holliger, Joane; et al. (2022)
    Politique de sécurité: analyses du CSS
    Le changement climatique accroît la fréquence et l’ampleur des défis en matière de sécurité. Il en résulte un besoin accru de collaboration dans des domaines politiques autrefois cloisonnés. L’adaptation au changement climatique menée par la Protection civile suisse et le choix par la Suisse des questions de « sécurité climatique » et de « paix durable » comme priorités au Conseil de sécurité de l’ONU l’illustrent bien.
Publications 1 - 10 of 50