Natural Hazard Mitigation Policy: Implementation, Organizational Choice, and Contextual Dynamics

✍ Scribed by Daniel J. Alesch, Lucy A. Arendt, William J. Petak (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 255
• Series: Environmental Hazards
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The negative consequences of natural hazard events are staggering and growing. Governments are acting to increase community resilience, reduce losses, and facilitate recovery, but these actions do not always yield anticipated consequences. This book is a compelling interdisciplinary analysis of California’s efforts to ensure that acute care hospitals survive earthquakes and continue to function in the aftermath. The book weaves together several threads essential to understanding the effectiveness of public policies intended to reduce the consequences of natural hazard events: public policy design and administration, the hazard mitigation investment decision made by targeted organizations, and contextual dynamics.

"A terrific study of shortfalls in the implementation of risk-reduction policy -- highly readable, full of insights, and very policy relevant." Peter J. May, Donald R. Matthews Distinguished Professor of American Politics, University of Washington, Seattle USA

"This is an exceptional book by three of the leading hazard mitigation researchers and must reading for both scholars and practitioners in the field."William A. Anderson, National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
The Starting Point: A Confluence of Questions About Policy Design and Implementation....Pages 1-17
Front Matter....Pages 19-19
Origins and History of California Seismic Building Retrofit Regulations....Pages 21-28
The Road to SB 1953....Pages 29-43
SB 1953: The Law, the Program, and the Implementation Challenge....Pages 45-60
Implementing SB 1953: 1998 into 2005....Pages 61-82
Implementation: Circa 2005 Through 2010....Pages 83-102
Front Matter....Pages 103-103
OSHPD, Administrative Agencies in General, and Implementing SB 1953....Pages 105-115
Front Matter....Pages 117-117
Organizational Responses: Introduction to Hazard Mitigation Investment Decision Making in Hospitals....Pages 119-131
Prerequisites to Organizational Action....Pages 133-148
Organizational Differences in Hazard Mitigation Investment Decision Making: Inside the Organization....Pages 149-164
Organizational Differences in Hazard Mitigation Investment Decision Making: Outside the Organization....Pages 165-191
Front Matter....Pages 193-193
Mindsets, Policy Design, Congruence, and Related Obstacles to Policy Implementation....Pages 195-216
Dynamic Contexts and Public Policy Implementation....Pages 217-224
Front Matter....Pages 225-225
The Ecology of Public Policy Implementation....Pages 227-234
Back Matter....Pages 235-238

✦ Subjects

Natural Hazards; Political Science, general; Health Administration