The Handbook of Disaster and Emergency Policies and Institutions

ISBN-13: 9781844073597 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 187 str.

John Handmer; Stephen Dovers

Opis

Disasters both natural and human-induced are leading to spiralling costs in terms of human lives, lost livelihoods and damaged assets and businesses. Yet these consequences and the financial and human crises that follow catastrophes can often be traced to policies unsuited to the emerging scales of the problems they confront, and the lack of institutional capacity to implement planning and prevention or to manage disasters. This book seeks to overcome this mismatch and to guide development of a policy and institutional framework. For the first time it brings together into a coherent framework the insights of public policy, institutional design and emergency and disaster management.

Spis treści

Introduction * Part I: Constructing the Problem * The Nature of Emergencies and Disasters * The Nature of Policy and Institutions * Part II: Constructing the Response * A Policy and Institutional Framework for Emergencies and Disasters * Owning the Problem: Politics, Participation and Communication * Framing the Problem: Identifying and Analysing Risk * Responding to the Problem: Policy Formulation and Implementation * Not Forgetting: Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning * Institutional Settings for Emergencies and Disasters: Form, Function and Coordination * Part III: Constructing the Future * Future Prospects * Index

O autorze

John Handmer is Innovation Professor at RMIT University, Melbourne, Adjunct Professor at The Fenner School of Environment and Society, The Australian National University, and Visiting Professor, Flood Hazard Research Centre, Middlesex University, UK. Stephen Dovers is Professor at The Fenner School of Environment and Society, The Australian National University and Adjunct Principal Research Fellow, School for Environmental Research, Charles Darwin University, Australia.