| The Handbook of Disaster and Emergency Policies and Institutions Contributor(s): Handmer, John (Author), Dovers, Stephen (Author) |
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ISBN: 113897188X ISBN-13: 9781138971882 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $58.89 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Disasters & Disaster Relief - Medical | Preventive Medicine - Political Science |
| Dewey: 363.348 |
| Physical Information: 208 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Disasters both natural and human-induced are leading to spiralling costs in terms of human lives, lost livelihoods and damaged assets and businesses. Yet these consequences and the financial and human crises that follow catastrophes can often be traced to policies unsuited to the emerging scales of the problems they confront, and the lack of institutional capacity to implement planning and prevention or to manage disasters. This book seeks to overcome this mismatch and to guide development of a policy and institutional framework. For the first time it brings together into a coherent framework the insights of public policy, institutional design and emergency and disaster management. |
