Disaster Risk Governance: Four Cases from Developing Countries

ISBN-13: 9781138225022 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 236 str.

Denise Thompson

Opis

Using case studies from resource-poor countries severely impacted by natural hazards in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean, Denise Thompson develops a disaster risk governance framework that helps to put poorer countries on a path to sustainable disaster risk reduction (DRR). 

Spis treści

1. Introduction  Part 1:  2. Over Four Decades of Ignoring Disaster Risk Governance  3. Making Conceptual Connections Necessary for More Effective Disaster Risk Governance in Developing Countries  4. Disaster Risk Governance  5. Institutions: The Centerpiece of Governance  Part 2:  6. Disaster Risk Governance in Jamaica  7. Disaster Risk Governance in Dominica  8. Disaster Risk Governance in Kenya  9. Disaster Risk Governance in Zanzibar  10. Disaster Risk Governance in Developing Countries

O autorze

Denise Thompson is a professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice of the City University of New York. Her research work and publications focus on disaster risk reduction and governance, vulnerability and disaster supply chain and logistics in multi-state systems in the Caribbean and Sub-Saharan Africa. In addition to her research work Denise Thompson teaches classes in public policy, organization theory and emergency management and works to develop curricula and program improvement initiatives to improve student learning outcomes in these areas.