Future-proofing the state : managing risks, responding to crises and building resilience / edited by Jonathan Boston [and three others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boston, Jonathan, Editor.

Contributor:

Boston, Jonathan, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Crisis management.

Precautionary principle.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (318 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

ANU Press 2014

Canberra, ACT : ANU E Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book focuses on the challenges facing governments and communities in preparing for and responding to major crises — especially the hard to predict yet unavoidable natural disasters ranging from earthquakes and tsunamis to floods and bushfires, as well as pandemics and global economic crises. Future-proofing the state and our societies involves decision-makers developing capacities to learn from recent ‘disaster’ experiences in order to be better placed to anticipate and prepare for foreseeable challenges. To undertake such futureproofing means taking long-term (and often recurring) problems seriously, managing risks appropriately, investing in preparedness, prevention and mitigation, reducing future vulnerability, building resilience in communities and institutions, and cultivating astute leadership. In the past we have often heard calls for ‘better future-proofing’ in the aftermath of disasters, but then neglected the imperatives of the message. Future-Proofing the State is organised around four key themes: how can we better predict and manage the future; how can we transform the short-term thinking shaped by our political cycles into more effective long-term planning; how can we build learning into our preparations for future policies and management; and how can we successfully build trust and community resilience to meet future challenges more adequately?

Contents:

Future-Proofing the State

Foreword

Contributors

Part 1: Governing for the Future

1. Governing for the Future while Meeting the Challenges of Today

2. The Role of Government in Future-Proofing Society

3. Foreseeable Shocks and the Critical Challenges Facing Humanity in the Twenty-First Century

4. Governments Fit for the Future: Lessons in building resilience

5. Governing for the Future: What governments can do

6. Do Governments Suffer from Political Myopia: What is the problem and what can be done about it?

7. Policy Disasters Waiting to Happen: When predictable disasters flow from government decisions

8. Building and Maintaining Trust in Public Institutions: Is this possible?

Part 2: Managing Risks and Building Resilence

9. Lessons for Government in Minimising Risk: What can the public service learn from the private sector?

10. Risk Responses, Emergency Management and Community Resilience in the Aftermath of the Recent Victorian Natural Disasters

11. Understanding Resilience and Reducing Future Vulnerabilities in Social-Ecological Systems

12. Improving Resilience through Environmental Scanning in Western Australia

13. Environmental Scanning Processes in Queensland's Department of Transport and Main Roads

14. Resilience in its Historical and Contemporary Contexts

Part 3: Managing Crises

15. Managing Crises Long Term: The challenges of preparedness and response

16. The Public Service in the Aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis: Future-proof or future shock?

Part 4: Disaster Recovery

17. Disaster Recovery: The particular governance challenges generated by large-scale natural disasters

18. Missing the Opportunity to Promote Community Resilience? The Queensland Floods Commission of Inquiry.

19. The Role of Post-Disaster Institutions in Recovery and Resilience: A comparative study of three recent disasters

20. Governing the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery, 2010-2011: The debate over institutional design

21. Seismic Shifts: The Canterbury earthquakes and public sector innovation

22. Examining the Public Sector's Responses to the Canterbury Earthquakes

Name Index

Subject Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781925021523

1925021521

OCLC:

870965661

Publisher Number:

10.26530/OAPEN_496491