A Rational Response to Natural Disasters? Explaining the global rise of regional disaster risk management
- Natural disasters pervade the certainty of social life. In a globalized world this truism increasingly calls for transnational solutions to prevent, prepare, and respond to these deadly disruptions. Regional Disaster Risk Management (DRM) has recently emerged to meet this concern. However, a number of observations question the expected motivation that compels states to cooperate in this important issue area. First, there has been only a moderate increase in the relative estimated economic costs from natural disasters in a majority of regional organizations, and the number of deaths related to natural disasters has consistently decreased. Second, after a tranquil period of cooperation from the mid 1970s, regional DRM rapidly developed and spread across the globe. This sudden rise in DRM cooperation seems difficult to explain if the costs from natural disasters have not considerably changed. Third, remarkable similarities appear in the goals and wording of regional DRM agreements despite the varied political, historical and cultural contexts that typify regional organizations. These empirical observations go against conventional expectations and question the core motivation of the state’s protection of its citizens. (...)
Document Type: | Doctoral Thesis |
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Language: | English |
Author(s): | Simon John Hollis |
Advisor: | Markus Jachtenfuchs, Magnus Ekengren |
Hertie Collections (Serial Number): | Dissertations submitted to the Hertie School (01/2012) |
Publication year: | 2012 |
Publishing Institution: | Hertie School |
Granting Institution: | Hertie School |
Thesis date: | 2012/11/27 |
Number pages: | VIII, 303 |
Release Date: | 2017/08/08 |
Tag: | Analytical Eclecticism; Comparative Regionalism; Disaster Risk Reduction; Neoliberal Institutionalism; World Society Theory |
Notes: | Shelf mark: 2012D001 + 2012D001+1 |
Hertie School Research: | Publications PhD Researchers |
Licence of document (German): | Metadaten (öffentlich), Volltext (zugriffsbeschränkt) |