Handbook of disaster policies and institutions : improving emergency management and climate change adaptation / John Handmer and Stephen Dovers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Handmer, John W., author.

Contributor:

Dovers, Stephen.

Handmer, John W.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emergency management.

Disaster relief.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (217 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge/Earthscan, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 more strategic policy and institutional framework. This updated and revised second edition

Contents:

The nature of emergencies and disasters

The nature of policy and institutions

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

Future prospects.

Notes:

Rev. ed. of: Handbook of disaster and emergency policies and institutions

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

Related Work:

Handmer, John W. Handbook of disaster and emergency policies and institutions.

ISBN:

1-136-27185-6

0-203-10976-7

1-283-94249-6

1-136-27186-4

9780203109762

OCLC:

823719418