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

• Autore: Handmer John W.
• Pubblicazione: London : , : Routledge/Earthscan, , 2013
• Edizione: 2nd ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (217 p.)
• Disciplina: 363.34/8
• Soggetto topico: Emergency management; Disaster relief
• Altri autori: DoversStephen HandmerJohn W
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Handbook of disaster policies and institutions
• ISBN: 1-136-27185-6; 0-203-10976-7; 1-283-94249-6; 1-136-27186-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910815716103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II