What is it about?
Governance failures and unsuccessful implementation of national policies at the local community level are major causes for limited achievement in Disaster-Risk-Reduction (DRR) goals. Our study reveals the causes and the mechanisms why and how such efforts fail, and offers ways to address them.
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Why is it important?
This paper nails the local implementation problems and challenges of the national disaster management policies down through empirical investigation in coastal communities of Bangladesh.
Perspectives
This is a unique article that provides solid evidence of governance failures by the institutions, particularly by the local level institutions. Lack of transparency, accountability, and resources are attributed to such failures. One can get hard evidence of these facts and features from this paper.
C. Emdad Haque
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This page is a summary of: Good governance and local level policy implementation for disaster-risk-reduction: actual, perceptual and contested perspectives in coastal communities in Bangladesh, Disaster Prevention and Management An International Journal, August 2020, Emerald,
DOI: 10.1108/dpm-03-2020-0069.
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