John Handmer, Stephen Dovers

Handbook of Disaster Policies and Institutions

Improving Emergency Management and Climate Change Adaptation

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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. This updated and revised second edition includes whole new sections on climate change adaptation - now a vital part of the work of disaster and emergency planning and management. This is an essential handbook for practitioners across the world seeking to improve the quality, robustness and capacity of their disaster management mechanisms.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 485g
• ISBN-13: 9781849713504
• ISBN-10: 1849713502
• Artikelnr.: 33824864

Autorenporträt

John Handmer is Innovation Professor at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, 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 and Director at The Fenner School of Environment and Society, The Australian National University and Adjunct Professorial Research Fellow, Research Institute for Environment and Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University, Australia. Both authors are affiliated with the Bushfire Cooperative Research Centre in Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part 1: Constructing the Problem 1. The Nature of Emergencies
and Disasters 2. The Nature of Policy and Institutions Part 2: Constructing
the Response 3. A Policy and Institutional Framework for Emergencies and
Disasters 4. Owning the Problem: Politics, Participation and Communication
5. Framing the Problem: Identifying and Analysing Risk 6. Responding to the
Problem: Policy Formulation and Implementation 7. Not Forgetting:
Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning 8. Institutional Settings for
Emergencies and Disasters: Form, Function and Coordination Part 3:
Constructing the Future 9. Future Prospects