Who can use the Cultural Map?

The CARISMAND Cultural Map is designed as a structured framework of a knowledge base, but with an intuitive and dynamic front-end that follows the equally dynamic ‘nature’ of culture and its connections with other factors such as socio-economic and environmental factors.

The Cultural Map guides disaster managers to successfully include cultural factors in their everyday practice and standard operating procedure giving them context based on specific findings i.e. best practices, etc. Then, they should be able to use this information to lead, for instance, a cultural audit in their respective institution.

Policy makers can use the Cultural map to better understand how they can include cultural factors in disaster related policy, for all types of hazards and during all phases of the disaster cycle.

Finally, the Cultural Map also provide detailed information for citizens on how they can use their individual and communal strengths for empowerment giving them background information on how their cultural environment can help them in different disaster situations.

The information provided in the Cultural Map is not organized around the three main categories of beneficiaries: policy makers, disaster managers, and citizens; as the Toolkit recommendations are. Thus, policy makers can tailor their search with respect to their current interest or explore different combinations of hazards, disaster phases, actors and cultural factors by using the Filter menu on the left side of the screen; or they can review the pre-defined correlations between these categories using the Cultural Map Table View.

Policy makers can also follow the links from specific Cultural Map entries to the respective Toolkit recommendations to better understand how the latter can include cultural factors in disaster related policy, for all types of hazards and during all phases of the disaster cycle.

The information provided in the Cultural Map is not organized around the three main categories of beneficiaries: policy makers, disaster managers, and citizens; as the Toolkit recommendations are. Thus, disaster managers can tailor their search with respect to their current interest or explore different combinations of hazards, disaster phases, actors and cultural factors by using the Filter menu on the left side of the screen; or they can review the pre-defined correlations between these categories using the Cultural Map Table View.

Disaster practitioners can also follow the links from specific Cultural Map entries to the respective Toolkit recommendations to successfully include cultural factors in their everyday practice and standard operating procedure (SOPs). Then, they should be able to use these tools to lead, for instance, a cultural audit in their respective institution.

The information provided in the Cultural Map is not organized around the three main categories of beneficiaries: policy makers, disaster managers, and citizens; as the Toolkit recommendations are. Thus, citizens can tailor their search with respect to their current interest or explore different combinations of hazards, disaster phases, actors and cultural factors by using the Filter menu on the left side of the screen; or they can review the pre-defined correlations between these categories using the Cultural Map Table View.

Citizens can also follow the links from specific Cultural Map entries to the respective Toolkit recommendations to further explore how they can use their individual and communal strengths for empowerment.