The Capacity Crisis in Disaster Risk Management : Why disaster management capacity remains low in developing countries and what can be done (Environmental Hazards)

Tiwari, Asmita

Springer International Publishing AG（2016/10発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 218 p.
• 商品コード 9783319356648

Full Description

How can a place be built and managed so that it is safe for people to live? Ironically, many governments and citizens keep on asking the same question after every new disaster. Why, even with high levels of investment in increasing government's capacity to manage disasters, do the impacts of disasters continue to increase? What can the governments do differently? What is the role of local communities? Where should aid agencies invest? This book looks into these critical questions and highlights how current capacity development efforts might be resulting in the opposite—capacity crisis or capability trap. The book provides a new approach for the understanding and the developing of effective local capacity to reduce and manage future disaster impacts.

Contents

Part I: Capacity Crisis.- Part II: Effective Capacity for Managing Disasters.