Special Issue on Water Disaster Management Policy
The January 2015 issue
of the Journal of Natural Resources Policy Research on the topic,
"Designing Water Disaster Management Policies: Theory and Empirics",
edited by Chennat Gopalakrishnan, has just been published. This issue
features an introductory essay and six original papers, authored by prominent
scholars in the water disaster management field.
Ossified governance structures, polycentric decision-making
entities, entropy-ridden institutions, cascading conflict scenarios,
deep-seated and wide-ranging internal feuds and precariously perched, top-heavy
decision agencies significantly add to the complexity of policy domains in the
water disasterscape. Such an intractable combination of essentially
incompatible forces and features renders the design and implementation of
effective and efficient disaster risk management policies an extraordinarily
challenging proposition. Against this bleak backdrop, well-intentioned policies
stumble into a collision course, making the emergence of workable policies
exceedingly difficult. The purpose of this special issue is to help
identify, examine, analyze and assess the complex world of disaster management,
and design robust, effective, implementation-friendly, widely-accessible and
affordable policies.
To view selected articles for FREE just go to Journal of Natural
Resources Policy Research online.
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