Interaction in Disaster Risk Mitigation:
A Literature Review
By Norman M. Messer
September 2003
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The Role of Local
Institutions and their Interaction in Disaster Risk Mitigation: A Literature Review By Norman M. Messer September 2003 |
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2. Background and Justification
3. Conceptual Background and Working Definitions
4. Objective, Methodology and Scope
5. Overview of Local Institutional Responses to Natural Disasters
6. The Legal and Regulatory Environment: Implications of Sectoral Approaches
7. The Promise of Decentralisation
8. Community-Based Self-Help Approaches and Other Civil Society Initiatives
9. Horizontal and Vertical Institutional Interactions at Local-, Meso-, and Macro Levels
10. Mapping Local Institutions in the Disaster Risk Mitigation Cycle
10.1 Preparedness: Insurance
10.2 Mitigation: Microfinance institutions
11. Elements of a Typology of Successful Local Institutions in Disaster Risk Mitigation
12. How to Facilitate Institutional Linkages and foster a Collaborative Approach
13. Impact of the Wider Local Institutional Environment
14. Some Differences Related to Types of Disaster
15. Contribution of the Natural Sciences to DRM and Interdisciplinarity in NRM
16. Household Level Poverty Constraints to DRM
17. Participatory Planning and Technology Uptake
17.1 The Role of Technical Assistance: Community Hazard and Vulnerability Mapping
17.2 Communication and Information Dissemination Technology
19. Towards an “Enabling Environment” for Local Institutional Development in DRM
20. The
Role of National Governments and the “International
Community”
21. Implications for Investments...
21.1 ...In Agricultural Development...
21.2 ...In Natural Resource Management...
21.3 ...In Training
22. Linking Disaster Risk Mitigation with Long-Term Sustainable Rural Development
23. Some Policy Recommendations summed up: “Best Practices” and “Lessons Learned”
Summary Matrix of selected “best practices” by actor and emergency phase