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The governance of disaster management encompasses a broad range of public, private, and not-for-profit organizations, international institutions, national and transnational regulations, guidelines, and practices intended to guide concerted actions to prevent, prepare for, respond to, and recover from man-made and natural disasters, by limiting their consequences or reducing their likelihood.
Introduction
The current century has seen the convergence of a number of extreme events, to the point in which the concept of disaster has become one of the defining tenets of our age (Fischbacher-Smith 2006). Events in 2017 highlighted the nature and scale of the problem as Hurricanes Harvey and Irma devastated large parts of the Caribbean and the US states of Texas and Florida. Both of these disasters, which occurred within weeks of each other, highlighted a range of governance issues across...
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Bongiovanni, I., Fischbacher-Smith, D. (2018). Governance of Disaster Management. In: Farazmand, A. (eds) Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_3314-1
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