Overview
- Introduces an international audience to the challenges that have faced Australia in the implementation of this policy approach and in the transition from disaster response to risk management
Part of the book series: Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research (NTHR, volume 22)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
In 1992 Australia’s Commonwealth and State governments announced the introduction of a National Drought Policy adopting an innovative risk management approach, which received broad support from Australia’s major political parties and the policy community.
This trail-blazing attempt and the experiences with the development and implementation of this policy over the past decade have intrigued the international scientific and policy communities. The present book comprises an academically focused collection of papers, which the Editors hope will provide others moving in a similar direction with the benefit of experience. The work highlights the successes and challenges of a move from disaster to risk management in responding to drought.
As such it will be a valuable and useful addition to the international literature on drought preparedness and response.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
(a) Dr Linda Botterill is a Post Doctoral Fellow in the National Europe Centre at the Australian National University where she is undertaking research on agricultural policy in Australia and Europe. She also lectures in political science in the School of Social Sciences. Dr Botterill has extensive experience in public policy having worked in the Australian Government Department of Primary Industries and Energy, as an adviser to two Cabinet Ministers and as a policy officer in two industry associations before undertaking her doctorate in political science at the ANU.
(b) Dr. Donald A. Wilhite is the founder and director of the National Drought Mitigation Center and Professor, School of Natural Resources at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He has extensive experience in drought planning and policy, drought mitigation, and drought monitoring. Dr. Wilhite has worked with many federal agencies and state governments in the United States and with many foreign governments and international organizations on a broad range of drought management issues.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: From Disaster Response to Risk Management
Book Subtitle: Australia's National Drought Policy
Editors: Linda Courtenay Botterill, Donald A. Wilhite
Series Title: Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3124-6
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2005
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-3123-6Published: 17 February 2005
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-6799-9Published: 28 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-3124-3Published: 15 June 2005
Series ISSN: 1878-9897
Series E-ISSN: 2213-6959
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 212
Topics: Environmental Management, Climate Change Management and Policy, Environmental Economics, Climate Change, Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution, Human Geography