Handbook of disaster policies and institutions: improving emergency management and climate change adaptation / by John Handmer

Part I. Constructing the Problem --
1. The nature of emergencies and disasters and climate change adaptation --
2. The nature of policy and institutions Part II. Constructing the response --
3. A policy and institutional framework for emergencies and disasters --
4. Owning the problem : Politics, participation and communication --
5. Framing the problem : identifying and analysing risk --
6. Responding to the problem : policy formulation and implementation --
7. Not forgetting : monitoring, evaluation and learning --
8. Institutional settings for emergencies and disasters : form, function and coordination Part III. Constructing the Future --
9. Future prospects.

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 more strategic policy and institutional framework. This updated and revised second edition.