The Role of Regional Organizations in Disaster Risk Management: A Strategy for Global Resilience

254 Pages·2015·0.972 MB·English

by  Simon Hollis (auth.)

The Role of Regional Organizations in Disaster Risk
Management
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The Role of Regional
Organizations in Disaster
Risk Management
A Strategy for Global Resilience
Simon Hollis
Swedish National Defence College, Sweden
© Simon Hollis 2015
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Contents
List of Figures and Tables viii
Acknowledgements x
About the Author xii
1 The Role of Regional Organizations in Disaster
Risk Management 1
2 Regional Disaster Risk Management 13
3 The Rational Role of Regional DRM Cooperation 47
4 The Standardization of DRM 78
5 International Organizations and Norm Diffusion 92
6 Norm Reproduction in the School of DRM 121
7 The Great Divide: Translating Expectations into
Capabilities 135
8 A World of Regions 165
Appendix 176
Notes 185
References 204
Index 239
vii
List of Figures and Tables
Figures
2.1 Regional DRM cooperation 46
4.1 Average regional HDI values, 2000–2007 9 0
5.1 Growth of IGOs and INGOs in the field of
emergency and disaster relief and the emergence of
advanced regional DRM: 1863–2009 9 5
5.2 Geographical-based quantity of DRM organizations,
1863–2009 96
7.1 Regional DRM expectations and capabilities 1 60
7.2 Regional capability-expectations gap 1 61
Tables
1.1 Regional organizations cooperating on DRM 8
2.1 Qualitative anchors for determining the calibration
of membership in the set of regional cooperation on DRM 1 6
2.2 Set values for regional expectations 1 9
3.1 Regional STI Index and DRM, 1970–2009 5 0
3.2 Asymmetrical risk and DRM, 1970–2009 5 2
3.3 Expectations and DRM, 1970–2009 5 4
3.4 Intra-regional power disparities (IPD) and DRM,
2000–2009 58
3.5 Regional risk coalitions (RC) and DRM, 2000–2009 5 9
3.6 Nascent regional disaster management cooperation 6 2
3.7 Advanced regional disaster management cooperation 6 4
3.8 Increase in the explanatory values from nascent to
advanced levels of regional DRM cooperation 6 7
3.9 Instances of outside intervention in regional DRM
cooperation 67
4.1 Estimated economic damages caused from natural
disasters: 1970–2007 82
5.1 Geographical distribution of DRM organizations, 1863–2009 9 7
5.2 Number of network links between international
organizations involved with ‘emergencies’ and
‘disasters’, 2011 98
viii
List of Figures and Tables ix
5.3 Most referenced international organizations
involved with ‘emergencies’ and ‘disasters’, 2011 99
5.4 Categories of relational diffusion 1 01
5.5 Relational mechanisms of diffusion 1 09
5.6 Common cultural categories used for the diffusion
of the global DRM model 1 13
7.1 Set values for regional capacity 1 37