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

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 disaste...

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Tác giả chính: Tiwari, Asmita
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spelling oai:scholar.dlu.edu.vn:DLU123456789-581682023-11-11T06:02:47Z The Capacity Crisis in Disaster Risk Management: Why disaster management capacity remains low in developing countries and what can be done Tiwari, Asmita Provincial State Government Risk assessment Disasters Developing countries Emergency management 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. 2015-09-10T07:13:59Z 2015-09-10T07:13:59Z 2015 Book 978-3-319-09405-2 978-3-319-09404-5 https://scholar.dlu.edu.vn/thuvienso/handle/DLU123456789/58168 en application/pdf Springer
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topic Provincial
State
Government
Risk assessment
Disasters
Developing countries
Emergency management
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State
Government
Risk assessment
Disasters
Developing countries
Emergency management
Tiwari, Asmita
The Capacity Crisis in Disaster Risk Management: Why disaster management capacity remains low in developing countries and what can be done
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.
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title_full The Capacity Crisis in Disaster Risk Management: Why disaster management capacity remains low in developing countries and what can be done
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