The Capacity Crisis in Disaster Risk Management

Why disaster management capacity remains low in developing countries and what can be done

Nonfiction, Reference & Language, Law, Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice, Science & Nature, Nature, Environment, Natural Disasters
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Author: Asmita Tiwari ISBN: 9783319094052
Publisher: Springer International Publishing Publication: March 5, 2015
Imprint: Springer Language: English
Author: Asmita Tiwari
ISBN: 9783319094052
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Publication: March 5, 2015
Imprint: Springer
Language: English

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.

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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.

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