The Role of Regional Organizations in Disaster Risk Management

A Strategy for Global Resilience

S. Hollis (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

242 Seiten

2015
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-137-43929-1 (ISBN)

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The use of regional organizations to mitigate and respond to disasters has become a global trend. This book examines the role regional organizations play in managing disaster risk through a comparative study of ten regional organizations, demonstrating their current limitations and future potential.

Simon Hollis is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Swedish National Defence College, Sweden, where he is conducting research on the role of international organizations in supporting disaster risk reduction capacities in small island developing states in the Caribbean and the Pacific regions.

1. The Role of Regional Organizations in Disaster Risk Management 2. Regional Disaster Risk Management 3. The rational role of regional DRM cooperation 4. The standardization of DRM 5. International organizations and norm diffusion 6. Norm reproduction in the school of DRM 7. The Great Divide: Translating expectations into capabilities 8. A World of Regions

Erscheint lt. Verlag	12.2.2015
Zusatzinfo	XII, 242 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	1-137-43929-7 / 1137439297
ISBN-13	978-1-137-43929-1 / 9781137439291
Zustand	Neuware