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After the failures of disasters and crises responses, there is a critical need for careful stocktaking. What have we learned? What has changed in the management of crises and disasters? What do we know about the causes, patterns, and consequences of these events? We need public management research to help address these challenges. This book, based on the special issue of Public Management Review, offers a ‘sampler’ of issues and approaches that can be used for empirical examination of disaster and crisis management. QUESTIONS The contributing authors address a variety of relevant questions in this volume. Intriguing questions include the following: • How can the concept of disaster resilience be operationalized in a way that is useful as a framework to investigate the conditions that lead to stronger, safer, and more sustainable communities? • What factors account for the variation across geographic jurisdictions in the ability to respond and recover from a disaster? • Which policy interventions and governance mechanisms can be developed to improve the practice of disaster and crisis management and reduce vulnerability to natural disasters? • How are disaster and crisis management strategies conceptualized, operationalized, and implemented in different parts of the world? • How have various disasters, as focusing events, impacted policies and practice disaster and crisis management? • What are some of the key differences between developing and developed countries in respect to disaster and crisis management? • How did disaster-impacted communities collaborate with multiple stakeholders (local, state, international) during the transition from disaster response to recovery? • Can the collaborative nature of disaster recovery help build resilient communities? PERSPECTIVES This book makes us of various perspectives: International and comparative Rather than focusing primarily on one specific country, the book expands the scope of empirical analysis to international contexts. This brings additional contextual factors that improve the general understanding of disaster and crisis management and how communities plan for and manage disasters and crisis.
DOI link for After the failures of disasters and crises responses, there is a critical need for careful stocktaking. What have we learned? What has changed in the management of crises and disasters? What do we know about the causes, patterns, and consequences of these events? We need public management research to help address these challenges. This book, based on the special issue of Public Management Review, offers a ‘sampler’ of issues and approaches that can be used for empirical examination of disaster and crisis management. QUESTIONS The contributing authors address a variety of relevant questions in this volume. Intriguing questions include the following: • How can the concept of disaster resilience be operationalized in a way that is useful as a framework to investigate the conditions that lead to stronger, safer, and more sustainable communities? • What factors account for the variation across geographic jurisdictions in the ability to respond and recover from a disaster? • Which policy interventions and governance mechanisms can be developed to improve the practice of disaster and crisis management and reduce vulnerability to natural disasters? • How are disaster and crisis management strategies conceptualized, operationalized, and implemented in different parts of the world? • How have various disasters, as focusing events, impacted policies and practice disaster and crisis management? • What are some of the key differences between developing and developed countries in respect to disaster and crisis management? • How did disaster-impacted communities collaborate with multiple stakeholders (local, state, international) during the transition from disaster response to recovery? • Can the collaborative nature of disaster recovery help build resilient communities? PERSPECTIVES This book makes us of various perspectives: International and comparative Rather than focusing primarily on one specific country, the book expands the scope of empirical analysis to international contexts. This brings additional contextual factors that improve the general understanding of disaster and crisis management and how communities plan for and manage disasters and crisis.
After the failures of disasters and crises responses, there is a critical need for careful stocktaking. What have we learned? What has changed in the management of crises and disasters? What do we know about the causes, patterns, and consequences of these events? We need public management research to help address these challenges. This book, based on the special issue of Public Management Review, offers a ‘sampler’ of issues and approaches that can be used for empirical examination of disaster and crisis management. QUESTIONS The contributing authors address a variety of relevant questions in this volume. Intriguing questions include the following: • How can the concept of disaster resilience be operationalized in a way that is useful as a framework to investigate the conditions that lead to stronger, safer, and more sustainable communities? • What factors account for the variation across geographic jurisdictions in the ability to respond and recover from a disaster? • Which policy interventions and governance mechanisms can be developed to improve the practice of disaster and crisis management and reduce vulnerability to natural disasters? • How are disaster and crisis management strategies conceptualized, operationalized, and implemented in different parts of the world? • How have various disasters, as focusing events, impacted policies and practice disaster and crisis management? • What are some of the key differences between developing and developed countries in respect to disaster and crisis management? • How did disaster-impacted communities collaborate with multiple stakeholders (local, state, international) during the transition from disaster response to recovery? • Can the collaborative nature of disaster recovery help build resilient communities? PERSPECTIVES This book makes us of various perspectives: International and comparative Rather than focusing primarily on one specific country, the book expands the scope of empirical analysis to international contexts. This brings additional contextual factors that improve the general understanding of disaster and crisis management and how communities plan for and manage disasters and crisis.
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DISASTER AND CRISIS MANAGEMENT