Disaster management and ‘Good governance’: Concerns and strategies.
By: Kumar, Santosh
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BookPublisher: South Asian Journal of Socio-Political Studies Description: 23(1), Jul-Dec, 2022: p.50-56.Subject(s): Good governance, Risk minimisation and mitigation, Disaster preparedness
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South Asian Journal of Socio-Political StudiesSummary: Disaster are sudden, catastrophic, and unfortunate events that causes human and financial damages, destruction and devastation. Disasters also impede ongoing and impending development projects, and the impacts – outputs and outcomes – varies from geographies to geographies. Major reasons, as the literature suggests, are due to diversities and differences in the climatic and geo-spatial conditionalities which leads to the difference in the degrees of vulnerabilities caused to the physical environment and to the human resources. Disasters cause the adverse effects on the socio-economic, political and cultural dimensions of the affected area. A disaster can be due to human engagement or natural reasons. Given the capriciousness and unpredictability of the disasters, the states and the disaster mitigation machineries or communities to manage disasters need to be equipped and organised in advance, so as to minimise the aftereffects. The governments legislate, allocate resources and engage into the rational planning and sustainable development. Disaster Management and Planning is a significant and critical part of governments’ myriad responsibilities and a subject to be addressed earnestly by the concerned authorities. Governance processes play a vital role in managing disaster with 3-E’s, i.e., efficiency, effectiveness and economical mitigation process, helps to synchronize political, economic and administrative activity in the management of disaster. It comprises mechanisms, processes and institutions through which citizens and groups articulate their interests, exercise their legal rights, meet their obligations and mediate their differences to overcome the crisis, whether by the private sector and civil society organizations. This paper explores the various aspects of the governance of disaster management mechanisms, majorly in India, with the help of the selected case studies.- Reproduced
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Disaster are sudden, catastrophic, and unfortunate events that causes human and financial damages, destruction and devastation. Disasters also impede ongoing and impending development projects, and the impacts – outputs and outcomes – varies from geographies to geographies. Major reasons, as the literature suggests, are due to diversities and differences in the climatic and geo-spatial conditionalities which leads to the difference in the degrees of vulnerabilities caused to the physical environment and to the human resources. Disasters cause the adverse effects on the socio-economic, political and cultural dimensions of the affected area. A disaster can be due to human engagement or natural reasons. Given the capriciousness and unpredictability of the disasters, the states and the disaster mitigation machineries or communities to manage disasters need to be equipped and organised in advance, so as to minimise the aftereffects. The governments legislate, allocate resources and engage into the rational planning and sustainable development. Disaster Management and Planning is a significant and critical part of governments’ myriad responsibilities and a subject to be addressed earnestly by the concerned authorities. Governance processes play a vital role in managing disaster with 3-E’s, i.e., efficiency, effectiveness and economical mitigation process, helps to synchronize political, economic and administrative activity in the management of disaster. It comprises mechanisms, processes and institutions through which citizens and groups articulate their interests, exercise their legal rights, meet their obligations and mediate their differences to overcome the crisis, whether by the private sector and civil society organizations. This paper explores the various aspects of the governance of disaster management mechanisms, majorly in India, with the help of the selected case studies.- Reproduced
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