Narrating disaster: what’s it like to live through a hurricane or volcanic eruption?

Podcast: Small Islands Big Picture · ODI Resilient and Sustainable Islands Initiative (RESI)

Opublikowano: 2025-07-09

Disasters are a constant part of life on islands - but outsiders often just see the stats: storm categories, earthquake scales, eruption sizes. Behind those numbers are real people forced to live through harrowing experiences. In this episode, Matt and Emily ask: how do survivors make sense of the shock - and how do their stories help communities rebuild what was lost? In “Island Voices”, Darenthea Sweeney from Montserrat and Gregory Adams from the British Virgin Islands describe the lasting social effects of disasters. As a disaster management expert, Emily breaks it down for us in the...