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Organising for Effective Emergency Management: Lessons from Research 1
Author(s) -
Boin Arjen,
't Hart Paul
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
australian journal of public administration
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.524
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1467-8500
pISSN - 0313-6647
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8500.2010.00694.x
Subject(s) - emergency management , key (lock) , scale (ratio) , crisis management , disaster response , culling , political science , business , disaster planning , public relations , environmental planning , process management , computer science , computer security , medicine , medical emergency , environmental science , geography , poison control , suicide prevention , law , herd , cartography , veterinary medicine
The February 2009 bushfires have prompted a debate with regard to contemporary arrangements for dealing with large‐scale disasters. In this article, we seek to contribute to that debate by culling lessons learned from the literature on crisis and disaster management. We discuss what constitutes an effective disaster response system, we identify some key barriers to the effective functioning of such a system, and offer some suggestions for improvement.