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Disaster Management Capacity from a National Perspective

Eriksson, Oskar and Gustafsson, Matilda (2007) In LUTVDG/TVBB‐‐5232‐‐SE VBR920
Division of Fire Safety Engineering
Risk Management and Safety Engineering (M.Sc.Eng.)
Division of Risk Management and Societal Safety
Abstract
Capacity development projects must be based on a thorough understanding of the situation within the subject country. However, the assessment phase is a very complex process and should cover a great number of aspects that both in time and space could affect the outcome of a triggering event. This project tries to identify what general aspects that could affect a country’s Disaster Management Capacity, and to what extent these are covered by assessment models, with a national perspective, used by agencies such as the United Nations and the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent in disaster prone countries. Our main conclusion, based on previous research, relevant literature and semi‐structured interviews, was that no... (More)
Capacity development projects must be based on a thorough understanding of the situation within the subject country. However, the assessment phase is a very complex process and should cover a great number of aspects that both in time and space could affect the outcome of a triggering event. This project tries to identify what general aspects that could affect a country’s Disaster Management Capacity, and to what extent these are covered by assessment models, with a national perspective, used by agencies such as the United Nations and the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent in disaster prone countries. Our main conclusion, based on previous research, relevant literature and semi‐structured interviews, was that no holistic model for capacity assessments exist to this date. Thus, less detailed guiding documents and models with limited scope were analysed. We also constructed a framework of central aspects that could affect a country’s DMC. The input to the framework was based on literature and semi‐structured interviews. We found that the analysed documents only covered a limited number of aspects and that in order to achieve an as holistic assessment as possible; different documents needs to be combined. (Less)
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author
Eriksson, Oskar and Gustafsson, Matilda
supervisor
organization
course
VBR920
year
type
H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
subject
keywords
Disasters, Disaster Management, Disaster Management Capacity, Capacity Assessment, Capacity, Vulnerability, Capacity Development, Framework, Holistic Perspective, Disaster Risk Reduction, Response, Recovery, National Assessment Models
publication/series
LUTVDG/TVBB‐‐5232‐‐SE
report number
5232
ISSN
1402‐3504
language
English
id
1689006
date added to LUP
2011-01-20 16:47:14
date last changed
2020-12-03 14:26:05
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  abstract     = {{Capacity development projects must be based on a thorough understanding of the situation within the subject country. However, the assessment phase is a very complex process and should cover a great number of aspects that both in time and space could affect the outcome of a triggering event. This project tries to identify what general aspects that could affect a country’s Disaster Management Capacity, and to what extent these are covered by assessment models, with a national perspective, used by agencies such as the United Nations and the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent in disaster prone countries. Our main conclusion, based on previous research, relevant literature and semi‐structured interviews, was that no holistic model for capacity assessments exist to this date. Thus, less detailed guiding documents and models with limited scope were analysed. We also constructed a framework of central aspects that could affect a country’s DMC. The input to the framework was based on literature and semi‐structured interviews. We found that the analysed documents only covered a limited number of aspects and that in order to achieve an as holistic assessment as possible; different documents needs to be combined.}},
  author       = {{Eriksson, Oskar and Gustafsson, Matilda}},
  issn         = {{1402‐3504}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  series       = {{LUTVDG/TVBB‐‐5232‐‐SE}},
  title        = {{Disaster Management Capacity from a National Perspective}},
  year         = {{2007}},
}