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With growing awareness of the devastation caused by major natural disasters, alongside integration of governance and technology networks, the parameters of humanitarian aid are becoming more global. At the same time, humanitarian instruments increasingly recognizing the centrality of local participation. Drawing on six case studies and a survey of 69 members of the relief sector, this book suggests that the key to the efficacy of post-disaster recovery is the primacy given to local actors in the management, direction and design of relief programs. Where local partnership and knowledge generation and application is on-going, cohesive, meaningful and inclusive, disaster relief efforts are more targeted, cost-effective, efficient and timely. Governing Disasters: Engaging Local Populations in Humanitarian Relief examines the interplay between law, governance and collaborative decision making with international, state, private sector and community actors in order to understand the dynamics of a global decentralized yet coordinated process of post-disaster humanitarian assistance.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Social services & welfare, criminology Social welfare & social services

• Full title: Governing Disasters
• Subtitle: Engaging Local Populations in Humanitarian Relief
• Author: Shahla F. Ali
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 346
• EAN: 9781107106390
• ISBN: 1107106397
• ID: 02849628
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 642 g
• Dimensions: 161 × 237 × 25 mm
• Date of publishing: 30. June 2016

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