ABSTRACT
Disaster risk governance must take its cue from its social, economic, political and administrative contexts as well as development imperatives and ideals of those contexts. Within these contexts, concepts such as development, and sustainable development, vulnerability, under-capacity, and resilience, plus their links, require some reckoning. For example, the concepts, both materially and conceptually, are contentious, which makes it difficult to stake out the scope of what constitutes governance or how to define it. While the empirical chapters (Chapters 6–9) provide context-specific information, I focus here on some of the conceptual issues that frame DRG in developing countries.
