Citizen participation, community resilience and crisis-management policy

2014 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 300-315 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alastair Stark ◽  
Monique Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Crisis Management ◽  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Community Resilience ◽  
Management Policy

Strengthening the Response to Disasters and Trauma

2021 ◽  
pp. 140-153
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Community Resilience ◽  
Extreme Weather ◽  
Research Network ◽  
Social Infrastructure ◽  
Resilient Communities ◽  
Pilot Programs ◽  
Impacts Of Climate Change

Chapter 10 opens with the Gulf Research Program’s Lauren Alexander Augustine presenting four pilot programs from around the country that illustrate the cornerstones of community resilience. Next, Benjamin Springgate examines resilience as a reflection of individual communities and describes a research network that promotes research on resilience-strengthening practices. Lourdes J. Rodríguez and Sheila B. Savannah then explain how neighborhoods that are striving for resilience should be involved like patients in the process of healing. Finally, three contributors offer unique perspectives on resilient communities: Traci L. Birch looks at why resilience efforts should also focus on inland communities that are no longer immune to the impacts of climate change and extreme weather. And Joie B. Acosta and Elka Gotfryd encourage us to think broadly about resilience as they explore opportunities to build responsive social infrastructure through engaged citizen participation.

Community-based Disaster Management and Its Salient Features: A Policy Approach to People-centred Risk Reduction in Bangladesh

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Abul Kalam Azad ◽  
M. Salim Uddin ◽  
Sabrina Zaman ◽  
Mirza Ali Ashraf
Keyword(s):  
Risk Reduction ◽  
Disaster Management ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Community Resilience ◽  
Disaster Risk ◽  
Management Policy ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Community Based ◽  
The Government

The discourse of disaster management has undergone significant change in recent years, shifting from relief and response to disaster risk reduction (DRR) and community-based management. Organisations and vulnerable countries engaged in DRR have moved from a reactive, top-down mode to proactive, community-focused disaster management. In this article, we focus on how national disaster management policy initiatives in Bangladesh are implementing community-based approaches at the local level and developing cross-scale partnerships to reduce disaster risk and vulnerability, thus enhancing community resilience to disasters. We relied chiefly on secondary data, employing content analysis for reviewing documents, which were supplemented by primary data from two coastal communities in Kalapara Upazila in Patuakhali District. Our findings revealed that to address the country’s vulnerabilities to natural disasters, the Government of Bangladesh has developed and implemented numerous national measures and policies over the years with the aim of strengthening community-focused risk reduction, decentralising disaster management, developing cross-scale partnerships and enhancing community resilience. Communities are working together to achieve an all-hazard management goal, accepting ownership to reduce vulnerability and actively participating in risk-reduction strategies at multiple levels. Community-based disaster preparedness activities are playing a critical role in developing their adaptive capacity and resilience to disasters. Further policy and research are required for a closer examination of the dynamics of community-based disaster management, the role of local-level institutions and community organisations in partnerships and resilience building for successful disaster management.

How Is the Crisis Affecting the Competitiveness of Countries?

2014 ◽  
pp. 149-183
Author(s):  
Anna Matysek-Jędrych
Keyword(s):  
Fiscal Policy ◽  
Crisis Management ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
International Competitiveness ◽  
Management Policy ◽  
Economic Downturn ◽  
Baltic Countries ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Baltic

The chapter focuses on the relation between the economic crisis and competitiveness on a national and regional dimension. The Baltic countries (Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania) have experienced one of the biggest GDP contractions during the Global Crisis so far. Hence, identifying and assessing changes in the relative competitiveness as a consequence of the economic downturn has sparked many interests. The international competitiveness and economic crisis intermingle with one another. The international cases selected for the purpose of this research (Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania) were to demonstrate clear and unquestionable evidence that crisis affects the international competitiveness of countries. One may believe that such a deep and painful financial and economic crisis as the current one—in the case of the Baltics—has to leave some permanent and explicit traces on a country's competitiveness. Thus, the results of this research may surprise a little. It may be generally concluded that a short-term crisis, even if severe, does not have a negative long-term influence on the international competitiveness as long as a proper anti-crisis policy is implemented. Sharing a number of structural, institutional, and performance features caused the crisis to undermine the competitiveness of the Baltic States in a similar manner (through macroeconomic stability channel). This in turn caused the applying of an analogue crisis management policy with the fundamental tool of fiscal policy tightening by an increased downward flexibility of wages and prices.

scholarly journals Latent Hybridity in Administrative Crisis Management: The German Refugee Crisis of 2015/16

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steffen Eckhard ◽  
Alexa Lenz ◽  
Wolfgang Seibel ◽  
Florian Roth ◽  
Matthias Fatke
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Behavior ◽  
Crisis Management ◽  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Crisis Response ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
Administrative Practices ◽  
Advance Theory

Abstract Studying the so-called refugee crisis in Germany, this article asks about the effectiveness of crisis management by a large number of local administrations, each acting upon the same crisis impulse of a high number of asylum seekers who entered the country in 2015 and 2016. Instead of theorizing the exact administrative design features fit for an effective crisis response, the focus is on the ability of administrations to adjust. We conceptualize such shifts in administrative practices as informal and temporary (latent) deviations from routine action along two dimensions of organizational behavior typically dominant in private and nonprofit sector organizations, respectively: internal flexibility and citizen participation (hybridity). Novel survey data from 235 out of 401 German district authorities are reported. We test the effects of different forms of latent hybridization on administrative effectiveness using regression modeling. Findings indicate that changes in administrative practices towards more flexible and participatory action had a positive impact on self-reported crisis management effectiveness. The effect of flexible action was especially pronounced in districts that were allocated higher shares of asylum seekers. These findings advance theory on crisis management and bottom-up implementation, highlighting the ability of local agencies to shift practices as a key explanatory factor for effective administrative action in exceptional situations.

scholarly journals ARCHITECTONICS OF POLICY OF CRISIS MANAGEMENT OF STATE-OWNED ENTERPRISE

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oksana Chumak
Keyword(s):  
Crisis Management ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Management Policy ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
State Enterprise ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Conceptual Approach ◽  
Modern Development ◽  
State Owned Enterprise ◽  
Crisis Conditions

The purpose of the article is to substantiate the concept of building the policy of the crisis management of state-owned enterprises in modern development conditions according of reform vector. Research methodology. The theoretical and methodological basis of the study is a systematic approach to the study of the fundamental provisions of the formation of an anti-crisis management policy of an enterprise. To achieve this goal, a system of general scientific and special methods was used, namely: methods of logical generalization and comparison for the formation of the architectonics of the crisis management policy of a state enterprise with an emphasis on the preventive stage of its implementation; methods of analysis, synthesis and generalization - to study the content of policy components and scorecards; abstract method - for the formulation of research findings. The results of the study. Reasonably conceptual approach to building a crisis management policy at a state enterprise. Clarified the definition of the concept of crisis management. The prerequisites that cause crisis phenomena are systematized: a state of imbalance in economic activity, bifurcation points and information asymmetry. Recommended architectonics of crisis management policy of a state-owned enterprise with an emphasis on the preventive stage of its implementation. The main components of the proposed policy are characterized. Justified necessity of monitoring and controlling the calculation of indicators of economic activity in the following areas: finance, economic efficiency, non-financial indicators and immeasurable factors that contribute to unstable conditions of the enterprise. To overcome crisis, policy provides for second stage, which has a comprehensive approach to overcoming crisis (macroeconomic and microeconomic). The scientific novelty consists in substantiating concept of building policy of crisis management of state enterprise in crisis situation, which provides permanent monitoring of indicators of economic activity and timely identification of crisis conditions. The practical significance of results. The current policy of crisis management at a state-owned enterprise will allow analyzing the results of economic activities to prevent occurrence of crisis conditions and their management, if any. The effect will be the possibility of periodically calculating the overall efficiency of economic and financial activities in accordance with the strategic goal, business conditions and state economic policy.

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