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Disaster management as contingent meta-policy analysis : water resource planning.

Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Elsevier Science Inc., 1994Description: 12 pDDC classification:
  • 363.348 21
Subject: Australia, an island continent the size of the U.S., often experiences floods, cyclones, droughts, earthquakes, and man-made disasters. As a federal system of government, there are many instances of institutional conflict involving water resource-related crisis management situations. This paper outlines a contingency-based policy making schema which seeks to define, and solve heuristically, various forms of conflict usually involving all three spheres of government (federal, state, and local). The contingency model is uniquely applied to the context of disaster management and so allows "meta-policy" strategies to be developed by governmental decision makers. In addition, the design of possible disaster management "expert systems" is only now being recognized in Australia but constitutes an emerging element of global policy advice and planning capabilities
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Bibliography: p. 128-130

From: Technological forecasting and social change, 1994, vol. 45, pp. 119-130

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Australia, an island continent the size of the U.S., often experiences floods, cyclones, droughts, earthquakes, and man-made disasters. As a federal system of government, there are many instances of institutional conflict involving water resource-related crisis management situations. This paper outlines a contingency-based policy making schema which seeks to define, and solve heuristically, various forms of conflict usually involving all three spheres of government (federal, state, and local). The contingency model is uniquely applied to the context of disaster management and so allows "meta-policy" strategies to be developed by governmental decision makers. In addition, the design of possible disaster management "expert systems" is only now being recognized in Australia but constitutes an emerging element of global policy advice and planning capabilities

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