Post-crisis Resilient Governance in Centro region (Portugal) after 2017 wildfires

Carlos Gonçalves (), Monique Borges () and João Lourenço Marques ()
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Carlos Gonçalves: Universidade de Aveiro
Monique Borges: Universidade de Aveiro
João Lourenço Marques: Universidade de Aveiro

INVESTIGACIONES REGIONALES - Journal of REGIONAL RESEARCH, 2021, issue 51, 129-147

Abstract: Governance systems, when addressing post-disaster action, play an important role in minimizing the community’s vulnerability in future disruptive events. The literature describes how post-disaster actions towards resistance-resilience measures are often implemented, shifting to adaptive-resilience approaches as a second concern, and disregarding resilience-transformative strategies. Two consecutive wildfires in the Centro Region (Portugal), in 2017, cut off access to the Services of General Interest (SGIs) and knocked off-balance the socioeconomic territorial structure and identity (the main impact was 116 mortal victims). In this paper, the media coverage of the phenomena during the 12 months following the disaster is analysed using a sample of 150 news articles published in two newspapers. The public discourses are indicative of the overall importance given to the impact and to the responses based on resistance-resilience measures. Moreover, the theoretical and practical challenges for the policy design and organization of the governance systems in post-disaster contexts is discussed.

Keywords: Forestry; multi-regional input-output analysis; Portugal; pulp and paper; value chain (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q23 R12 R15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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