Editorial | Open Access
Disaster Policies and Governance: Promoting Community Resilience
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Abstract: This brief editorial introduction highlights the importance of policies and effective governance for disaster resilience including communities, individuals, institutions, and organizations through the execution of deliberate choice and collective action. Effective facilitation of development and implementation of disaster policies can lead to more resilient communities in the aftermath of disasters. The success of design, development, and execution of disaster resilience policies require engagement of the “whole community”.
Keywords: collaborative governance; community resilience; disaster resilience; politics; whole community
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© Naim Kapucu, Abdul-Akeem Sadiq. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits any use, distribution, and reproduction of the work without further permission provided the original author(s) and source are credited.