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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815716103321

Autore

Handmer John W.

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge/Earthscan, , 2013

ISBN

1-136-27185-6

0-203-10976-7

1-283-94249-6

1-136-27186-4

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (217 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

DoversStephen

HandmerJohn W

Disciplina

363.34/8

Soggetti

Emergency management

Disaster relief

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

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

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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