ABSTRACT
As previously mentioned municipalities often form DMCs, staffed by ‘disaster risk managers’, to conduct multi-sectoral DRM across all municipal departments. But how does one person or department contend with such complex socio-environmental dynamics, even if only through fulfilling a ‘coordinating role’? As the previous chapter indicated, isolating a set of causes for one particular or a particular set of afflictions by drawing on one rudimentary code seems rather absurd. Even some of those involved in the field find its breadth challenging. Consider the following quotations: ‘I think that because disaster management is so broad and they have so many people to deal with, that makes it difficult’; ‘Disaster management can be made out to be as vast as the Lord’s grace’ (Author’s translations).
