Title |
Addressing challenges for future strategic‐level emergency management: reframing, networking, and capacity‐building
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Published in |
Disasters, May 2016
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DOI | 10.1111/disa.12196 |
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Authors |
Karyn Bosomworth, Christine Owen, Steven Curnin |
Abstract |
The mounting frequency and intensity of natural hazards, alongside growing interdependencies between social-technical and ecological systems, are placing increased pressure on emergency management. This is particularly true at the strategic level of emergency management, which involves planning for and managing non-routine, high-consequence events. Drawing on the literature, a survey, and interviews and workshops with Australia's senior emergency managers, this paper presents an analysis of five core challenges that these pressures are creating for strategic-level emergency management. It argues that emphasising 'emergency management' as a primary adaptation strategy is a retrograde step that ignores the importance of addressing socio-political drivers of vulnerabilities. Three key suggestions are presented that could assist the country's strategic-level emergency management in tackling these challenges: (i) reframe emergency management as a component of disaster risk reduction rather than them being one and the same; (ii) adopt a network governance approach; and (iii) further develop the capacities of strategic-level emergency managers. |
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Mexico | 1 | 1% |
Australia | 1 | 1% |
Unknown | 87 | 98% |
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Student > Ph. D. Student | 20 | 22% |
Researcher | 11 | 12% |
Student > Master | 10 | 11% |
Lecturer | 8 | 9% |
Student > Doctoral Student | 5 | 6% |
Other | 14 | 16% |
Unknown | 21 | 24% |
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Social Sciences | 17 | 19% |
Engineering | 10 | 11% |
Business, Management and Accounting | 9 | 10% |
Medicine and Dentistry | 4 | 4% |
Nursing and Health Professions | 3 | 3% |
Other | 18 | 20% |
Unknown | 28 | 31% |