Overview
- Brings capacity development and disaster management fields together—which has not been done before
- Presents a framework to understand capacity development for disaster management
- Summarizes the current theories and practices as well as presents the results from practical field research, making it appealing to both academicians and practitioners
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Environmental Hazards (ENHA)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Capacity Crisis
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Effective Capacity for Managing Disasters
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Back Matter
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About this book
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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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Capacity Crisis in Disaster Risk Management
Book Subtitle: Why disaster management capacity remains low in developing countries and what can be done
Authors: Asmita Tiwari
Series Title: Environmental Hazards
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09405-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-09404-5Published: 25 March 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-35664-8Published: 06 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-09405-2Published: 05 March 2015
Series ISSN: 2542-9787
Series E-ISSN: 2542-9795
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 218
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 29 illustrations in colour
Topics: Natural Hazards, Public Administration, Organization, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Sustainable Development