Institutional resilience and disaster governance: How countries respond to Black Swan events
| Title: | Institutional resilience and disaster governance: How countries respond to Black Swan events |
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| Format: | Journal Article |
| Publication Date: | May 2024 |
| Published In: | Progress in Disaster Science |
| Publisher | Elsevier |
| Description: | In a worldwide hazard environment exacerbated by the effects of climate change and the increasing interconnectedness of built and social systems, disasters are becoming more frequent, more destructive, and locally more variegated. Yet some communities are more disaster resilient than others. What explains this? This study employs institutional resilience as a lens through which to compare the responses to large-scale disasters taken by Australia, Japan, and The Netherlands, three affluent democracies with distinctive institutional arrangements. In so doing, we use the Swan Matrix as a yardstick for gauging the adaptive capacity of different systems of disaster governance. By focusing on human efforts to build resilience, we draw attention to contextual factors, particularly the type of institutional arrangement, which, our observations suggest, shape disaster governance. We conclude with a call for further comparative research into the major disaster governance systems in a hazard environment in which large-scale disasters are becoming commonplace. |
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| External Contributors: | Adjo Amekudzi-Kennedy, Maya Outhouse Inchauste, Samyuthka Sundararajan, Adrian Medina, Simrill Smith, Kathryn Popp |
| Citation: | Brian Woodall, Adjo Amekudzi-Kennedy, Maya Orthous Inchauste, Samyuthka Sundararajan, Adrian Medina, Simrill Smith, Kathryn Popp, |
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