Environmental Hazards: Why disaster management capacity remains low in developing countries and what can be done

Tiwari, Asmita

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.

Details

Published by: Springer

Publication Date: 2015-03-25

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9783319094045

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-09405-2

Dimensions: 235cm x155cm

Pages: 218