A regional, market oriented governance for disaster management: A new planning approach

Erwin Blackstone, Simon Hakim () and Brian Meehan

Evaluation and Program Planning, 2017, vol. 64, issue C, 57-68

Abstract: This paper proposes a regional competitive governance and management of response and recovery from disasters. It presents problems experienced in major disasters, analyzes the failures, and suggests how a competitive system that relies on private and volunteer regional leaders, personnel, and capital can improve preparation, response and recovery efforts over the existing government system. A Public Choice approach is adopted to explain why government often fails, and how regional governance may be socially more efficient than the existing federal- state-local funded and managed disaster system. The paper suggests that the federal role might change from both funding and supplying aid in disasters to merely funding disaster recovery efforts. When a disaster occurs, available businesses and government resources in the region can be utilized under a competitive system. These resources could replace existing federal and state inventories and emergency personnel. An independent regionally controlled and managed council, which also develops its own financial resources, and local volunteer leaders are key for success. The paper suggests a new planning method that utilizes the statistical Factor Analysis methodology to derive an efficient organizational and functional model to confront disasters.

Keywords: Disaster response; Polycentricity; Private-Public Partnership (PPP) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2017.05.014

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