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Handbook of disaster policies and institutions : improving emergency management and climate change adaptation /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York :
Routledge/Earthscan,
2013.
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| Edición: | Second edition. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Handbook of disaster policies and institutions : |b improving emergency management and climate change adaptation / |c John Handmer and Stephen Dovers. |
| 250 | |a Second edition. | ||
| 264 | 1 | |a Abingdon, Oxon ; |a New York : |b Routledge/Earthscan, |c 2013. | |
| 264 | 4 | |c Ã2013 | |
| 300 | |a 1 online resource (217 pages) | ||
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| 500 | |a Revised edition of: Handbook of disaster and emergency policies and institutions. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Cover; Handbook of Disaster Policies and Institutions: Improving emergency managementand climate change adaptation; Copyright; Contents; List of figures, tables and boxes; Acknowledgements; List of acronyms and abbreviations; Introduction: The context and aims of this book; Part I Constructing the problem; 1 The nature of emergencies and disasters and climate change adaptation; Overview of disaster trends; Emergency and disaster institutions; The nature of disasters and emergencies: cause and effect; Evolution of emergency management: from 'acts of God' to socially constructed disasters. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Key challenges2 The nature of policy and institutions; Core concepts and terms; Traditions and trends in policy analysis; Policy styles and the political environment; Emergencies and disasters as policy and institutional problems; Reconciling policy with emergencies and disasters; Part II Constructing the response; 3 A policy and institutional framework for emergencies and disasters; Policy cycles meet emergency risk management; A framework for policy and institutional analysis; Using the framework; 4 Owning the problem: Politics, participation and communication; Policy and politics. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Who? Defining 'community'Why? Purposes and degrees of participation; How? Options for community engagement; Communication: the lifeblood of participation; Communication challenges; Conclusion; 5 Framing the problem: Identifying and analysing risk; Problem framing; Cause-effect linkages; Pervasive uncertainty; Attributes of emergency management policy problems; A typology of disasters and emergencies; Routine; Non-routine; Complex emergencies; The risk standard; Hierarchy of goals, issues and problems; Conclusion; 6 Responding to the problem: Policy formulation and implementation. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Broad policy choice: generic resilience or specific instruments?Generic approaches to hazards management; Specific approaches to hazards management; For crisis response: flexibility and adaptability; Policy problems and policy instruments; Policy instruments and styles for implementation; Policy styles and attributes required for implementation; Implementation attributes; Concluding comment; 7 Not forgetting: Monitoring, evaluation and learning; Uncertainty, time and learning; Policy and institutional learning: purposes and forms; Basic information capture. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Evaluation: the precondition for learningResearch and education; Prospects for learning; 8 Institutional settings for emergencies and disasters: Form, function and coordination; Institutions: the key to common endeavours; Institutions and emergencies: status and issues; Purpose, form and principles; Learning, law and liability; Conclusion; Part III Constructing the future; 9 Future prospects; How disastrous a future?; Key challenges; International and regional leadership; Prospects: anticipation, resilience and adaptation; Notes; References; Index. | |
| 520 | |a 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. | ||
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| 650 | 0 | |a Disaster relief. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Climatic changes. | |
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| 650 | 2 | 2 | |a Climate Change |
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| 650 | 2 | 2 | |a Public Policy |
| 650 | 2 | |a Relief Work | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Secours aux victimes de catastrophes. | |
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